Quotes About Ethnicity

The term Tartars has been employed generically to denote almost the whole race. The Monguls are a portion of this people, who are said to derive their name from Mongol Khan, one of their earliest and most powerful chieftains.

an internal government report proposed that "everything should be done to ensure that as few Poles as possible remain in this country.

Disgusting Serbs, get out!

Native American" is a politically correct creation of clueless white people who feel better using it, when in reality the Native Americans refer to themselves as Indians and snicker at those of us who don't

Native American" is a politically correct creation of clueless white people who feel better using it, when in reality the Native Americans refer to themselves as Indians and snicker at those of us who don't, but I digress).

After the rise and decline of Greek civilisation and the Roman destruction of the city of Carthage, they made one area of the conquered territories into a province which they called Africa, a word derived from afri and the name of a group of people about whom little is known. At first the word applied only to the Roman colonies of North Africa. There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as the Land of the Burnt-face People.

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

He complained to me on one of our rides to school that there were too many Italian and Irish students at Fordham

It should be noted that the Tuareg do not call themselves Tuareg. Nor do they call themselves the blue people. They call themselves Imohag, which means "free men.

So long as the customary sphere is not deethnicized as part of a broader reform, deracialization of the civic sphere will only lead to a spillover--even to an explosion--of ethnic conflict in the civic realm.

Dos grandes potencias habían decidido fomentar antiguos odios étnicos en Yugoslavia, para convertirlos en una guerra local. En apariencia, la idea consistía en incrementar la dependencia de la zona afectada de la ayuda de organizaciones internacionales, lo cual equivalía a otorgar a organismos supranacionales la potestad de inmiscuirse en los asuntos de Estados individuales.

You can scream you're Indian, you can disavow your religion, you can even be the next incarnation of Krishna for all your Hindu countrymen will care. Their HRM will pull down your pants and check your foreskin and slaughter you just the same.

European nightmare – the delusional myth of one blood, one race, one people. And

Should Virgil grow a mustache, he'd look like everybody else, Virgil thought: a monoculture of German-Scandinavian white people, now getting a little salsa poured on it, to the great relief of everyone.

It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry.

Os ucranianos não são como os russos: são um tipo de eslavo diferente. E embora na sua maioria falem e leiam russo, a sua língua é diferente e autónoma, mais parecida com as línguas eslavas do Sul do que com o Russo. Muitas palavras ucranianas, em particular palavras relativas ao mundo rural, são as mesmas que em húngaro, e muitas das suas palavras são mais parecidas com o checo do que com o russo.

Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

If you are that upset with it being used by people not of color, stop using it yourself.

Amid all the information available in our environment, which identity filter(s) do you use? Are you dedicated to popularity, to a role, to a cause, an ethic, a nation, an ethnicity? What identity gives meaning to your life?

Becoming American meant hearing slurs that now defined you and your people: dago, wop, guinea, spaghetti bender.