Angela Merkel Quotes

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more of an effort to understand people and their different cultures.

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

My humour comes from acknowledging different communities. That's what my fans are responding to - they know that I 'get it.' I understand them. I take the time to understand them. I get more complaints from people when I don't talk about them. I've had guys come up to me after a show and go, 'You didn't talk about Latvians!'

And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.

For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.

We live in a global society today where all our cultures intermingle.

Indians should associate with English youths in a mixed school, and should be removed entirely from native influences.

A constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state

This Diversity of origins requires an infinitely firm guide, an infinitely delicate touch to manage this heterogeneous society, whose complex composition becomes destroyed, divided and dissolved with the slightest alteration.

Immigrants have to adopt our values, not the other way around.

Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts.

I have no problems with a multicultural society; I think that is to the benefit of the country. But you have to be careful what levels you take it to.

In the 21st century, government efforts should focus on 'multiculturalism', including the diversity of languages.

So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

To ensure assimilation we want to ensure that it works. Assimilation, an important word. Integration and upward mobility.

When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.

I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.

It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.