Ninette de Valois Quotes

The strength of a culture depends on its capacity to open itself up to other cultures, to integrate itself into them and to integrate them into it.

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents.

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

Literally everything good about this culture comes from mixing.

When you bring multiple cultures together, there's a degree of push and pull.

Britain is just a melting pot for every culture. Like a pot for every culture around the world mixed into one. Artists over here understand that more.

I'm a fan of mixing cultures together.

The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.

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

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

What goes into the Melting Pot determines what shall come out of it.

Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.

Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It's like New Orleans; it's a meltdown of other cultures.

Before, there was a culture that said Mumbai is separate, Telugu films should be separate. Now, everyone is working together. It's cool.

England really is at the forefront of being a melting pot of all cultures.

I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love it when the music, when the cultures collide and something sort of new comes out of it.

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.

Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.

I come from a specific area in Beirut where it's multicultural, and it's a culture that blends with multiple cultures - it's unbelievable lifestyle.

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