Quotes About Multiculturalism

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

It is not an exaggeration to say that under Obama, the naturalization process - becoming a citizen - no longer requires becoming an American. The real tragedy and the real crime of the Obama plan for accelerated naturalization of millions flows from the redefinition of citizenship as a triumph of multiculturalism.

I truly believe diversity is beauty.

If you challenge multiculturalism you are seen to be a racist. But it's a political philosophy that needs to be looked at. If you don't, you're taking it on trust, which is intellectually dishonest.

The truth is that many, if not most, nations of the world are made up of different peoples - and cultures and beliefs and religions - who find themselves thrown together by circumstance.

We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.

Policy should not aim to change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada.

Our immigration policy should not aim to forcibly change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada, as radical proponents of multiculturalism want.

Political conservatives need to recognize that multicultural politics is converging with leftist politics, and not only on 'social issues' like same-sex marriage. Our Constitution is also on the chopping block, and if you don't see that, you haven't been paying attention.

One of the reasons why I started creating my solo show is so that I have a place to put all of the accents that I do.

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

As cities were melting pots in the nineteenth century, suburbs have become the twentieth-century equivalent...minorities, refugees and other population subgroups have ...entered the suburbs.

She was thinking about prejudice, how it might begin so simply-- they come from elsewhere, they don't look the way I do. Why did people want to match? And here they were in the great multicultural city of the first African-American but also half-white U.S. president in history.

I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.

What's special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.

Miami is one of these places where diversity is in our blood, where, you know, if you want to go have a Nicaraguan breakfast, a Cuban lunch, and an American diner dinner, you do.

I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.

There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.

I can pass as a lot of things: people meet me and don't think I'm gay and speak about gay people in a certain way or they don't know I'm Middle Eastern and do the same.

American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.

Ambiance raciale : les Arméniens, vieux habitants du quartier, contribuant à sa dimension de palimpseste des peuples, augmentent mon plaisir (et mon argument) d'habiter le 10e : c'est la France que j'aime, réelle, hétérogène. Que les Arméniens puissent cohabiter tranquillement avec les Turcs, les Juifs avec les Arabes, etc., définit l'ancien idéal républicain de coexistence des contraires.

The key word among advocates of multiculturalism became "diversity." Sweeping claims for the benefits of demographic and cultural diversity in innumerable institutions and circumstances have prevailed without a speck of evidence being asked for or given. It is one of the purest examples of arguments without arguments, and of the force of sheer repetition, insistence and intimidation.

The actual track record of promoting separate group identities, whether called "Balkanization" or "diversity," has been appalling, in countries around the world.