Quotes About Diversity

Most importantly we have learned that from here on it is success for all or none, for it is experimentally proven by physics that "unity is plural and at minimum two" - the complementary but not mirror-imaged proton and neutron. You and I are inherently different and complimentary. Together we average as zero - that is, as eternity.

Latin women, you may love them, but may not marry them."'Latin Fiancé Visa' written by Richard Clément. ISBN-13: 978-1951630430

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

Baldrick, we are about as similar as two...dis-similar things in a pod!

Education has long been viewed in American society as "the great equalizer." But in practice, American schools are highly segregated by race and socioeconomic status, which defeats the equality goal. Research dating back five decades shows one of the most powerful ways to improve the life chances of disadvantaged students is giving them the opportunity to attend high-quality schools that educate rich and poor students under a single roof.135

Whatever the culture, there's a tongue in our head. Some use it, some hold it, some bite it. For the French it is a rapier, thrusting in attack; the English, using it defensively, mumble a vague, confusing reply; for Italians and Spaniards it is an instrument of eloquence; Finns and East Asians throw you with constructive silence. Silence is a form of speech, so don't interrupt it!

Multi-active cultures are very flexible. If Pedro interrupted Carlos's conversation, which was already in the process of interrupting Sven's tennis, this was quite normal and acceptable in Portugal. It is not acceptable in

Cultural and religious differences may make it impossible for some people to laugh at the same thing.

British and American children are often put in a separate room, right away or after a few weeks or months.

the Zulu language has 39 words for green.

The individualistic Spaniards consider the Swiss stuffy and excessively law-abiding. Lively Italians find Norwegians gloomy. French-influenced Vietnamese find Japanese impassive. Most South Americans find Argentineans conceited. Germans think Australians are undisciplined. Japanese see straight-talking Americans as rude.

Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or rewards the undiscriminating, is worth very little and has only callow, childish pleasures.

had gone to work in Worcester's famous Washburn & Moen barbed wire factory: Swedes were preferred by employers there because, unlike the Irish, they did not tend to get either fighting drunk or unionized.

Segregation has no place in the education system.

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

However many ways there are of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

A fourth-grade teacher, shortly before beginning a unit on world cultures, passes out a form asking the children to fill out where their parents "are from." The bright child who raised her hand earlier hesitates, knowing that her parents are undocumented entrants who fear being discovered and deported.

Closely related to differential racialization—the idea that each race has its own origins and ever-evolving history—is the notion of intersectionality and antiessentialism. No person has a single, easily stated, unitary identity.

Will the United States ever have a black woman president?

Community-betterment organizations like the League of United Latin American Citizens reacted to rampant discrimination against their members by insisting that society treat Latinos as whites.

The cognitive orientations and skills of East Asians and people of European cultures are sufficiently different that it seems highly likely that they would complement and enrich one another in any given setting.

One man's piety is often another man's poison.

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.