Quotes About Hybridity

When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

The more balanced power equation between women and men Below the Winds encouraged serial monogamy and easy divorce for both parties… Hybridity was therefore the norm for these cities, up to the point when communication with the homeland became so well established that its prejudices were imported.…. Southeast Asian women were therefore the pioneers of cultural interaction with outsiders, a creative role appreciated by neither nationalist nor imperialist authors.

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

My art is based on impurity. You have to mix things from different refined cultures to get something raw, to make it go again.

Making whiteness American culture, the nation has forgone other possibilities. The hybridity that could have been our greatest strength has been made into a means of playing across the color line, with its rotting distance of voyeurism and partisanship, a confirmation of social and psychological division.

Being South Asian in the U.K. is like being Latino in the U.S., I would guess. It's a bit more hood. You see things; things happen. I was bouncing between worlds. You're acting from a very early age, when you have to code-switch like that. I'm a hybrid, a mongrel. I think many people live that life.

Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.

Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.

Gustaba a napolitanos y sicilianos, mestizos también ellos, no por error de una madre pelleja sino por historia de generaciones, nacidos de cruces de levantinos desleales, árabes sudorientos y ostrogodos degenerados, que tomaron lo peor de cada uno de sus híbridos antepasados: de los sarracenos, la indolencia; de los suabos, la ferocidad; de los griegos, la infructuosidad y el gusto de perderse en charlas con tal de dividir un pelo en cuatro.

Pocho: An Americanized Mexican.

I notice I have both African and Belgian characteristics.

For the Nazi "war against hybridity" was not waged "against the European grain" at all. Though Hitler certainly pushed it to the limit, ethnic homogeneity as supposed political "coherence" and psychological "integrity" was an idea shared by very many people in European countries east, south, west and north.

The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or the diversity of cultures, but on the inscription and articulation of culture's hybridity. It is the inbetween space that carries the burden of the meaning of culture, and by exploring this Third Space, we may elude the politics of polarity and emerge as the others of our selves.

I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid.

The notions of hybridity, metissage, cosmopolitanism have been deployed and reworked in order to capture the polycentric and polysemic aspects of these new configurations.