Quotes About Nationality

I'm British by heritage, American by God's grace, and Canadian by divine intervention.

In Seoul, people like me get called Japanese bastards, and in Japan, I'm just another dirty Korean no matter how much money I make or how nice I am. So what the fuck?

was still hard for a Korean to become a Japanese citizen, and there were many who considered such a thing shameful—for a Korean to try to become a citizen of its former oppressor.

They do not hire Koreans or Chinese, but that will not matter to you since you are Japanese.' Bingo nodded several times. 'Soo desu,' Noa agreed (Lee 334).

Japan will never change. It will never ever integrate gaijin...But it's not just you. Japan will never take people like my mother back into society again; it will never take back people like me. And we're Japanese

He had visited South Korea with his father several times, and everyone there always treated them like they were Japanese. It was no homecoming;

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

When Americans sip their iconic Budweiser, they are in fact enjoying a beer produced by a company engendered by a 2004 merger of Brazilian and Belgian breweries that in turn managed to gain control of Anheuser-Busch in 2008, thus forming the world's largest beer company. Its CEO, Carlos Brito, is from Brazil.

I'm world-famous," Dr. Parks said, "all over Canada.

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

If we remain merely conflicting class beings, genders, ethnic beings, and nationalities, it is obvious that any kind of harmony between human beings will be impossible. As members of classes, genders, ethnic groups, and nationalities, we will have narrowed our meaning of what it is to be human by means of particularistic interests that explicitly set us against each other.

If he laid on the Irish any thicker, she'd be drowning in shamrocks.

Takes more than beer in your blood to take the English out of you.

Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas.

Look, you're not French, let's face it . . . and who wants to be, anyway, in this day and age? Being French is way past cool.

WRITER Right, but no offense, you guys eat dogs for lunch and many of us in the West here find that disgusting, so . . . ACTOR I'm not Korean, you prick! I'm of Chinese descent but I was born in Idaho! I-da-ho. You got that? / My God . . .

Ancient Greeks did not think in terms of race (later translators would put that word in their mouths); instead, Greeks thought of place.

Worry about right and wrong wasn't a concept he embraced. Right and wrong were ephemerals; they changed from every angle, from hour to hour, depending on which side of any of a thousand borders a soldier was born.

You speak very good English for an American.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

Ukrayna'n?n benim yurdum oldu?unu kim söylüyor? Kim, ne ad?na oray? bana yurt olarak vermi?? Ruhumu ok?ayan, beni sevgiyle kucaklayan her yer ya da her ?ey benim yurdumdur. Benim yurdum, varl???m her ?eyim sensin. Ya?ad???m sürece de sen olacaks?n. Hangi Kazak gelip beni senden koparabilecek görece?iz. Yeni yurdum için her ?eyi terk etmeye, yok etmeye haz?r?m!

One has to put aside the popular notion that language and culture are endlessly passed on from generation to generation, rather as if 'Scottishness' or 'Englishness' were essential constituents of some national genetic code. If this were so, it would never be possible to forge new nations – like the United States of America or Australia – from diverse ethnic elements.