Jean-Marie Le Pen Quotes

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

Our nation has been called a melting pot. I think of it more as a mosaic, one to which many groups make their own distinct contributions.

The fallacies of the Melting Pot theory have also become obvious. Years before the war [WWI] it had become increasingly apparent that the Melting Pot was no longer successfully performing its function; that the American population was losing its homogeneous character; that various nationalities of recent immigrants were forming more and more compact racial "blocs," each bloc tenaciously maintaining its own racial character, customs, and traditions.

Our first challenge in America today is simply to open our eyes to these changes, to discover America anew, and to explore the many ways in which the new immigration has changed the religious landscape of our cities and towns, our neighborhoods and schools.

Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting.

The melting pot was always a tension between difference and sameness.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place - one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on.

America is so diverse.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

Traditionally, the ideology of the United States nationhood perpetuated the myth that immigrants would shed their particularistic ethnic identities and loyalties. Eventually these “strangers” would be assimilated into a homogeneous body politic that was based on the equality of individual rights.

There is no such thing as National character or National Sentiment. The Inhabitants are from all quarters of the globe; and as various in their opinions, projects and schemes, as their manners and habits are from their early education.

There are men of eighteen different languages; they are scattered here and there upon the [Hudson] river.

We [French Canadians] may not assimilate, we may not blend, but for all that we are still the component parts of the same country.

The Melting Pot

We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened

Paris was a melting pot.

I am very Latino in everything I am and I do, but there's a part of me that's also something else. I'm reflective of the way this country's gonna be in the next 40 years. More multicultural is what we'll see.