Quotes About Ethnicity

I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.'

I have been in rooms with people arguing over a character that's not really fleshed out: that, just because the surname is Latino, that automatically means you have an accent.

My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.

I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.

I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and that wasn't really the story that I ever was interested in telling.

I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.

No one's of Pakistani origin in any British show. That's why every actor of color is here working in the States. It's true.

Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.

and subordinate groups are defined along ethnic and/or racial lines, and where the relationship is established and maintained to serve the interests

Oh, Maureen. Don't be so naive. Everybody knows what it's like these days. The authorities bend over backward to help immigrants. You ought to know that, being in nursing. It's all opportunities for ethnics, not for decent, hardworking white folks.

We must pardon everyone because if not, it will be like we will have to punish all the population. We must pardon everyone because all ethnic groups did bad acts. (Thirty-eight-year-old female, Nyanza-Lac)

More and more Burundians have started redefining the enemy not as all people of the other ethnicity but as extremists on the other side, or even as politicians of all stripes. By

Jury selection took six months, longer than most had anticipated. On January 10, 1989, a jury and twelve alternates were sworn in, comprised of six Hispanics and six blacks, seven females and five males. The Hernandezes felt it was a victory for the defense.

Killing Tutsis was a political tradition in postcolonial Rwanda; it brought people together.

Because of all this mixing, ethnographers and historians have lately come to agree that Hutus and Tutsis cannot properly be called distinct ethnic groups. Still

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.

Fashion has come a long way to embrace different body shapes, ethnicities, even looks. I find it an exciting time culturally for these reasons. Women are really coming into their own.

The genius of America lies in its capacity to forge a single nation from peoples of remarkably diverse racial, religious, and ethnic origins….The American Creed envisages a nation composed of individuals making their own choices and accountable to themselves, not a nation based on inviolable ethnic communities….

Estados Unidos no será más una nación blanca y negra, sino más bien café.

The Arabs had the dry, musty smell of a grain cellar; the Asians contributed the ginger and garlic; and from the whites came the odor of a milk-soaked bib.

such as Huns and Bulgars and the unexcitingly named Alans.

Racial purity - the highest law.

I understand the Rooney Rule and I understand why it is critical in America. I certainly think there are differences between the American system and in American football, there is such a large percentage of players who are of ethnic backgrounds. I think there is a difference here... I don't think its appropriate here.