Quotes About Ethnicity

A diferencia del poeta moderno, no vive aquejado por el ansia de originalidad. Sabe que su canto no es suyo sólo. La conciencia étnica, forjadora del mito, ha cumplido antes que él naciera, el trabajo principal; ha creado los objetos bellos. Su papel queda reducido a la escrupulosidad de un artífice.

Von der Humanität durch Nationalität zur Bestialität.

I've shied away from playing Asian characters. if you look back, I'm playing characters that have no relevance to my ethnicity.

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.

The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance - are the Uighurs and Tibetans. In these two groups, the Han Chinese come face to face with difference.

I know Priyanka Chopra personally. She is a cultured, decent and educated person and the fact remains that she is an Indian.

I think all races are represented in America much more than in many other places, but it's also nice to remind people about that ethnic mix. I would like to see more black models and women from different ethnic backgrounds, but I also think that when you are casting, you just choose the most beautiful girl you can find.

I had a meeting a while back with a big group of women - actors and producers and writers - who are all ethnic minorities and we just aired what we thought was happening and why, and someone said that, as a black or mixed race actress, you feel like you're renting space instead of carving out a career. But I'm just going to get on with it.

I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with as much dignity and integrity as I can muster.

I want to represent my color and ethnicity. To be proud of our heritages is really cool.

Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.

Never have I once identified myself as white.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

I identify as black.

Have I had experiences by other people identifying me as black and behaving towards me as black? Yes. Just for as long as maybe somebody who was born categorised as black? No.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.

I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

Since 'Heroes' started, I've probably had about 15 or 16 film scripts sent to me with Indian characters, and out of those, maybe one was good.

I am an Indian to the core.

He tolerated his fellow Englishmen, but the Welsh were cabbage-farting dwarves, the Scots were scabby arse-suckers, and the French were shriveled turds.