Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Ethnicities. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Ethnicities Quotes And Sayings by 98 Authors including Wentworth Miller,Alexis De Tocqueville,Elizabeth Ann Lawless,Michael Novak,Seneca. for you to enjoy and share.
I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.
Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.
Diversity creates dimension in the world.
Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.
Everywhere the people are of mixed and imported stock. One group has followed another: one longed for what another scorned; one was driven out from where he had expelled others. So fate has decreed that nothing maintains the same condition forever.
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
Majorities, of course, start with minorities.
Education and knowledge are the power of the minorities in this country
Upon the civilization of the world. The best one can do is to estimate, as intelligently as possible, the national characteristics of the peoples engaged,
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
I don't always think of myself as ethnic ... my mom is Black, and my dad is White, and we like to call my race"Bi-racial". Everyone at camp is interesting because they just call me Black. -Mackenzie
Demographics is destiny
Culture is not race and race is not culture.
Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.
I am myself of a mixed background.
We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially.It's our common humanity that defines us.
Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age ... because "everything is global, man!"
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.
I dont see things with gender, race and culture
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.
What counts is the cultural level
It is not the race that makes the civilization, it is the civilization that makes the people: circumstances geographical, economic, and political create a culture, and the culture creates a human type.
of body, tall Negroes from Africa, small wizen-faced Jews,
Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.
I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free to be whoever I want to be.
We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
The notions of hybridity, metissage, cosmopolitanism have been deployed and reworked in order to capture the polycentric and polysemic aspects of these new configurations.
Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.
We are taught that these are dualisms: Jewish/Arab, public/private, visible/invisible, Black/white, privilege/oppression, pride/shame. But these are false separations that don't exist.
The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.
population subsets.
Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.
The biases we hold against other groups have the ability to wreak havoc on our crosscultural interactions. Before we enter into such interactions, we must do the difficult work of addressing our biases and blind spots.
Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.
Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
No races, few permitted variant alleles. Anything else arouses hostility,
To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced, bridged, balanced, and identify with. I am proud to be who I am as a Dine' (Navajo) and Nahilii (African American) woman. Hozho', , & blessings
Two widely dissimilar races, whether equal or not, cannot peaceably coexist in the same territory until they are either uniformly mongrelised or cast in folkways of permanent and traditional personal aloofness.
No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.
I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.
ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother-they hug where I live now.'
If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.
The multicultural 'melting pot' destroys the earth's myriad of unique cultures by depriving them of authority, assimilating them to the global fast-food anti-culture...
There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification ... I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't ... We're very closely related.
It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid.
When imperial powers fray at the edges, ethnic groups perceived to be the beneficiaries of their trust suddenly start to look like aliens not natives, however long they may have been settled.
I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
there lies at the heart of any diversified and stratified social system
I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.
Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.
There's no Black, White, Asian, or Latinos. The only "RACE" is the "HUMAN-RACE".
Race, let's remember, is a social invention and a cultural identification, not a biological reality.
The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.
There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.
Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.
Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.
Tribally speaking...
You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups.
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.
Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.
My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish.
One's identity derives not from one's nation or blood but from the language one uses.
People of different ethnicities are definitely not of differing species. Biologically speaking, people are people.
I discuss humanity and not races.
The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.
Increased immigration and diversity are not only inevitable, but over the long run they are also desirable. Ethnic diversity is, on balance, an important social asset, as the history of my own country demonstrates.
As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
I don't think culture is something you can describe.
The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.
The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live ...
The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect
In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.
There are not two cultures, only half-cultured individuals
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
Herein lies the attractiveness of ethnic agitation: its ease and accessibility. The Other is visible, everyone can recognize and remember his image. One doesn't have to read books, think, discuss: it is enough just to look.
Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies are on the rise, and many minority protests that I have witnessed say, in effect, "Do not racially profile us, we are Americans.
It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
This nationality business helps you make a great story and satisfies your hunger for ascription of causes. It seems to be the dump site where all explanations go until one can ferret out a more obvious one (such as, say, some evolutionary argument that "makes sense"). Indeed,
Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.
We are defined by what we believe in. Identity is shaped by what we believe is right. Culture is cultured, pun intended; by what we believe is right.
Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
One thing that unites us all, one thing is universal among the human species; the anatomy. Big, small, fat, thin, colour or creed are irrelevant. Under the skin, under the flesh, we are one and the same. We desire the same things; love, money, power. All the things we can not have, not without cost.
Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.