Quotes About Culture

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.

Immigrant communities have been genuinely accepted in London.

To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it.

I grew up in San Diego with immigrant parents, before the food blogs, before this kind of celebrity chef culture we know now.

I'm an immigrant.

I can't speak for everybody, and I don't want to say it for an entire culture, but for me, coming from an immigrant family, it's very difficult to go find your voice, which requires a lot of failure.

What any immigrant is after is a taste of home.

Our old stories happen to be your new stories. The stories that you're seeing as immigrant stories are your grandparents' stories, are your great-grandparents' stories. You just happen to be separated from them a little bit.

I was born to Chinese immigrant parents, who came from Taiyuan.

Immigrant stories are good stories for everyone to know.

My favorite thing that I'm learning, in particular, is that the type of love between an immigrant parent and their child growing up in America is a particular nuanced type of love.

When you are in America, at least for me, as an immigrant, I try to be as Americanized as I could. I just want to be an actor, I don't just want to be an Asian actor necessarily.

Brick Lane' is actually a place in London where many Bangladeshis live. It is about one such Bangladeshi immigrant family.

I was one of the only children having an immigrant father in my elementary school.

My mother is basically an immigrant because she came from Tonga.

For many immigrant groups, lack of trust in authority is something they actually bring from the countries they come from.

I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?

America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.

Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.

Much like the leaders of some European countries, Democrats believe that the more immigrants a country takes in, the better off that country becomes and the more altruistic it appears.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.