Alain de Botton Quotes

I don't really know what feeling Japanese or Haitian or American is supposed to feel like. I just feel like me.

As a child, I didn't even realize I was Chinese. I was Singaporean, but my identity was wrapped up in the culture I was experiencing every day.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

I feel Anglo-American.

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

I exist in this hyphen. I'm an Indian-American-Muslim kid, but am I more Indian, or am I more American? What part of my identity am I?

There are several different traits that make up a person's identity. For me, being Vietnamese American is the entirety of who I am.

I'm more Filipino than I am German. I guess I shouldn't be ashamed to say that.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.

I've always felt very English.

I am a man by nature and a Frenchman only by accident.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.

I'm American; I was born and raised in America, and I don't want to fake who I am to fit a stereotype.

I just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

I'm comfortable, culturally I'm American, my perspectives are American, but from an aesthetic perspective do other people look at me and think that I'm American?

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.