Quotes About Nationality

An observation that people who live permanently in an adoptive country tend to progressively generalize the bad and particularize the good, that is, attribute the bad traits in people they encounter to the national trait of the natives, and the good things to the individual. This holds equally well for French people living in the U.S. as it does for Americans living in France.

This nationality business helps you make a great story and satisfies your hunger for ascription of causes. It seems to be the dump site where all explanations go until one can ferret out a more obvious one (such as, say, some evolutionary argument that "makes sense"). Indeed

There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.

I have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish. The Russian is Jewish. So I'm your classic American mutt.

I made my England debut when I was 17, against India. I was the first Asian to play for the England women's team, and I did have mixed feelings playing against the country my parents are from but I was born and bred in England and I've always known I wanted to play for my country.

The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

The fact is, I'm half-British, half-Malaysian. For an Asian who's grown up in America to be commenting on how Asian I am when they've never left America... does that make them more or less Asian than me?

I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.

I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.

My family is from Morocco, and I was born and raised in Canada, but I'm an Indian at heart, for sure.

Both my mother-in-law and Rajiv made it easy for me. I feel very Indian and am not conscious of being an Italian in India.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

I am very proud to be Brazilian and more motivated than ever to demonstrate what I can do.

People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

There's little public clamor to judge people not by the color of their passport but by the content of their character.

Mr. Ambassador, any person in the United States, regardless of his nationality or the manner of his arrival, is entitled to the full protection of our law. Our courts have ruled on this many times, and under our law no man or woman may be compelled to do something against his will without due process.

How strange, Popov thought. If the Irish didn't like the English, then why did they emulate their driving patterns?

I'm a Midwesterner, and everyone in Ohio is excited. I'm also a New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan, and an American, plus I'm an African-American, and a woman. I know it seems like I'm spreading like algae when I put it this way, but I'd like to think of the prize being distributed to these regions and nations and races.

White but European which was not as bad as white and American;

Here in America, where every nationality confirmed its stereo-type