Quotes About Multiculturalism

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

Other tourists might remember London for Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, and Big Ben. I'll remember it for its failed multiculturalism.

I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.

Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.

The subway in New York is a great social experiment there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources—because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

There was something to be said for diversity, though it sometimes did complicate matters.

They(students) accept the shift in the locus of representation but resist shifting ways they think about ideas. That is threatening. That's why the critique of multiculturalism seeks to shut the classroom down again— to halt this revolution in how we know what we know. It's as though many people know that the focus on difference has the potential to revolutionize the classroom and they do not want the revolution to take place.

If there's somewhere that in no way resembles Eastern Europe, it's Australia.

We have many different kinds of global centers like the global business center or the special center for Mongolian and Central Asian residents in Seoul.

My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.

I knew from an early age that people didn't see the different sides of me. I formulated a kind of bi-cultural identity quite early, and I was always very comfortable with it, but I knew people didn't quite see that.

The immigration divide is also an urban–rural divide.4 In country after country, rural voters elect xenophobes. The majority of people who voted for Brexit lived in the British countryside; multicultural London was the Tower of Babel for them. The areas that have the fewest immigrants are the ones most afraid of them.

During the twentieth century, America recorded its highest percentage of foreign-born residents in 1910: 14.7 percent of the population. A century later, about 40 million people or nearly 13 percent of Americans today are foreign-born citizens.

I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.

Anything, really - I'm as comfortable playing an Indian as playing a black woman or a South American.

London is not just an international financial centre: it is also one of the most ethnically diverse places on earth. Three hundred languages are represented within its boundaries, and - as is true of some other English cities - more than half of London's inhabitants describe themselves as non-white.

If migrants from other cultures arrive too fast and in numbers too great for society to absorb and integrate them, they begin to impose those cultures on the host country.

I'm the only one who is saying, 'Let's take fewer immigrants.' We want people to integrate, we don't want ghettos in Canada.

Bush nodded. "It sounds like you've got a real diverse country down there." "Oh, yes," I said. "We are truly a melting pot." I told him about all the immigration Brazil had from Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Japan, and so on. "We also have one of the world's largest populations of blacks, you know." "Do you have blacks in Brazil?" Bush asked.

Por otra parte, tratar lo diverso de las culturas en términos de diferencia conducirá a querer aislarlas y a fijarlas en su identidad.

I've tried to be inclusive in my '2B' series. Over the course of three books, I wrote African-American characters, a paraplegic character, gay and lesbian characters, a bisexual, Jewish heroine, a multiracial hero, Korean and Chinese-American characters, and a multiracial supporting character.