Bill Buford Quotes

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.

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

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America.

I lived in L.A. for four years, and basically, every corner you go to, or in a restaurant, you can't even find people from the same background.

People tend to migrate from the third world to the metropolises of the very countries that once dominated them. Algerians to Paris; Puerto Ricans to New York; Pakistanis to London.

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people. When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem are transplants. They migrate to Harlem from another place.

When I came to Bombay, as it was called in my time, it was filled with people from everywhere, Kashmir to Kerala.

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 love that New York City is a true melting pot.

Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

As to other foreigners it is thought better to discourage their settling together in large masses, wherein, as in our German settlements, they preserve for a long time their own languages, habits, and principles of government, and that they should distribute themselves sparsely among the natives for quicker amalgamation.

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

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

Everybody came from somewhere here in New York.

The melting pot has sprung a leak.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

The Melting Pot