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Quotes About Ethnicity

Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.
~ Annette Lu
You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.
~ Emo Philips
I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
~ Mae Jemison
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
My father's mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz. I only found out as an adult because my father never talked about it. He was a secularist and never defined himself in ethnic terms - partly, I think, because he was scared; partly out of the habit of not talking of such things; partly because he didn't like being defined by other people.
~ Pawel Pawlikowski
I've never talked about being Jewish in a promo ever. But my name is just so blatantly a Jewish name. It's not like my name is Maxwell Jacob Smith.
~ Maxwell Jacob Friedman
As a people, Serbians are very tall, and we have olive skin and dark hair, which can look very nice. You have to be very beautiful to stand out.
~ Ana Ivanovic
I think Latin guys are really sexy. They generally fit into that whole tall, dark, and handsome thing.
~ Julia Stiles
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
~ Bernice King
Ark, he was called. His real name was Hyath Arkajanian, and he was Armenian or Lithuanian or something, I couldn't remember for sure
~ Richard S. Prather
In 2010, half of Asian Americans 25 years old or older held bachelor's degrees, compared with 28 percent of the White population (Bureau of the Census 2011a).
~ Richard T. Schaefer
Croatia and Serbia will always seek to advance the interests of their ethnic compatriots in Bosnia, at the expense of each other and of the Bosnian Muslims, no matter who is in charge, democrat or autocrat. But
~ Robert D. Kaplan
Not that they give a damn in America, mind you. What do they care that Pashtuns and Hazaras and Tajiks and Uzbeks are killing each other? How many Americans can even tell one from the other? Don't expect help from them, I say. Now that the Soviets have collapsed, we're no use to them. We served our purpose. To them, Afghanistan is a kenarab, a shit hole. Excuse my language, but it's true.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Tak usah pedulikan semua itu. Karena sejarah tak akan mudah disangkal. Begitu pula agama. Pada akhirnya aku adalah seorang Pashtun dan dia seorang Hazara, aku seorang Sunni dan dia seorang Syi'ah, dan tidak ada yang bisa mengubahnya. Tidak ada.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Afghanistan adalah negeri milik bangsa Pashtun. Dari dulu begitu, dan akan selalu begitu. Kita adalah orang-orang Afgan sejati, orang-orang Afgan murni, tidak seperti si Pesek ini. Kaumnya mengotori tanah air kita, watan kita. Mereka mengotori darah kita. Aku bilang Afghanistan untuk bangsa Pashtun. Itulah pandanganku. Hitler sudah terlambat. Tapi kita belum - Assef
~ Khaled Hosseini
To me, it's nonsense—and very dangerous nonsense at that—all this talk of I'm Tajik and you're Pashtun and he's Hazara and she's Uzbek. We're all Afghans, and that's all that should matter. But when one group rules over the others for so long…There's contempt. Rivalry. There is. There always has been. Maybe
~ Khaled Hosseini
with religious denominations conceived of as a species of ethnic group).
~ Kwame Anthony Appiah
Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.
~ Eskinder Nega
The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.
~ Adolf Hitler
What people in Burma need is a democratic federal Burma that guarantees autonomy, rights and protection for all, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion or race.
~ Zoya Phan
I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.
~ David D. Cole
Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.
~ Edward Abbey
Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.
~ Ernest Gellner
Honda did not necessarily cling to the historical school of law, which was influenced by nineteenth-century romanticism, nor to the ethnic school. The Japan of the Meiji era, indeed, needed a nationalistic type of law, one that had its roots in the philosophy of the historical school. But Honda's concerns were quite different. He had first been intent on isolating the essential principle behind all law, a principle which he felt must exist.
~ Yukio Mishima