My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating your own path, and creating your own identity is part of that. That's why embracing these two cultures is important to me.
I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture.
When people ask me where I'm from, I say I'm from the Sudan. But when they ask what my hometown is, I say London. It's where I lived, and it's where my whole family lived.
I made 'The Farewell' for me, for my family, and for other immigrant children, or children of immigrants, who feel caught in-between two worlds.
My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.
I was born in London but brought up in Wales from the age of two.
My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.
My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.
Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.
It's just so funny that when I was growing up, I was very much of an Australian. I just thought it was funny that there was this war, like, 'No, she's ours, she's practically a Miss Australia.' But I am a Miss Philippines.
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.
You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life.
I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.
Being mixed in the South, that's a struggle that everybody deals with differently. Some people go careening to one side or the other, and some people try to walk a tightrope between the two. I grew up spending equal time with both sides of my family.
I'm half Greek, half Australian.
I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
I am half Bengali and half Marathi.
I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half-Japanese at heart.
I feel very much rooted in being Egyptian, and I also feel very rooted in being a guy from New Jersey.
I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa.
Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didn't really speak any English, and when we left, that's all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.
My father is Swedish and my mother is French.
Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.
