Quotes About Ethnicity

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

Veddoid Negritos of Sri Lanka

Les français sont des italiens sont des français de mauvaise humeur.

Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?

I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email.

A federated structure in Iraq based on ethnicity or religious sects will not be healthy.

My eyes will never be blue; my bone structure will never allow for you to mistake me for a Scandinavian model.

I was always made aware of inequality in society, that there was a class system. In Somalia, we have clan structures. My mother's family is ethnically not Somali, and so we spoke often about what it meant to be 'other' in that way.

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

There has to be more opportunities for Asian or black actors.

To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

A show like 'Orange Is the New Black' has every race and ethnicity - and you don't even have to depend on four networks any more. You can go to Amazon or Netflix and be in an award-winning show.

I love how British people call Asian people 'oriental' unless they're talking about Indian people, who get to be called Asian.

It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.

I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

A lot of young Latino actors have said to me, 'Why can't we get an Oscar? Why can't we be nominated?' And the terrible truth is that if you don't get the right parts, you're not going to be. Are you going to get an Oscar nomination for one of those Judd Apatow movies? Not likely, no matter what nationality you are.

I had to overcome a lot of barriers. Until 1947, it was illegal for people from the subcontinent to migrate to the U.S. The subcontinentals were the last ethnic minority to gain citizenship. You assimilate. My name was too hard. They said, 'Shad is what we are calling you.' You go with the flow.

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

Nous devons devenir capables d'échanger nos mémoires nationales ou ethniques et d'exercer les uns à l'égard des autres à la fois la volonté de ne pas oublier et celle de pardonner, c'est-à-dire de libérer la mémoire des autres de sa charge de culpabilité

Since independence, the census in Botswana has never asked about ethnic heterogeneity, because in Botswana everyone is Tswana.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

As is so often the case, shapings of history designed to bring out lost sources of vitality call upon fictions of ethnicity or race as their medium.