Quotes About Ethnicity

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.

You can ask any Latin actor: inevitably, if they get a part meant for a white guy, producers will change the character's name to sound more Latin.

People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There's black people from America and then there's black people from Africa. Racially, they're the same; culturally, they're extremely different.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.

The disgusting truth is that some of the less-educated families in the Caucasus hate and despise Russians simply because they are Russian, just as some less-educated Russian families feel the same way about people from the Caucasus.

I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident with being different!

Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America.

The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.

I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white... I would always get such hate about it.

I think only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian.

Parts for Asians are hard enough to get, and if Tee, which sounds kind of generically Asian, helps me get roles, so be it.

Playing a positive role on a network television show, it was great. I took it as a responsibility. Poncherello was supposed to be Poncherelli, and then when I got this part I said, 'You know what, this guy isn't going to be Italian-American, he's gonna be Hispanic American.' And they went with it.

I often hear things like, 'You don't look Latina enough,' and that mentality is so backwards. The fact is, I am Latina, so how are you going to tell me that I don't look Latina?

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

It's hard for the American industry to see a Latin actor playing something that is not a gardener or someone in a cartel. It's hard to find the material that tells a story of a Latin or European Spanish guy that is not a bad guy.

I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew.

A masterpiece produced by an indecipherable cocktail of races, Kolovas-Jones's skin was

as Alistair Horne points out, this was not simply a battle between two armies but the ancient conflict of Teuton and Gaul, two ethnic groups letting one thousand years of envy and hatred out in one long pent-up explosion of violence

He inveighed bitterly against the growing power of the Jews and of the Rockefeller crowd, and said more than once that our firm and his were the only two composed of white men in New York.

They were Ukrainians," I said. "Is there a difference?" "I'm sure the Ukrainians think so. The Russians put their minorities out front, and their minorities didn't like it.

Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified.

When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

Almanyadaki semitizm karsitliginin ayni zaman bir Yahudi acisindan bakildiginda da hos karsilanmasi gereken somuclari var. Bana kalirsa alman yahudileri, surekli varliklarini, semitizm karsitligina borclular... Bu ayrim olmadan Almanyadaki yahudilerin asimilasyonu cabucak ve engelsiz gerceklesirdi.