Jan Brewer Quotes

The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

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

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.

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

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

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I've grown up in a very diverse background.

I really love Japan, and I liked living there very much, and there are so many terrific things about Japan. However, I do think what's amazing is that Japan really prides itself on being monoracial. It doesn't have the same kind of idea as in the U.K. or Canada or the United States, in which the idea of diversity is a strength.

I've always seen myself as an all-American kid, you know. You're not just white or black or Asian or Latino. We're in the melting pot of America.

I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.

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

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

Being a foreigner is not a disease.

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

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.

A lot of people don't know this, but Toronto is probably the most multicultural city in North America.

I think there is a problem in France that anyone who is not European, you want to know where they come from and why do they come from somewhere or why they speak English or why they are human. That's the big barrier for all of us that are coming from some far, far away countries. But at the end of the day, we are all artists.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.