Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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

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

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

The Melting Pot

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

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.

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

Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.

I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.

Our first challenge in America today is simply to open our eyes to these changes, to discover America anew, and to explore the many ways in which the new immigration has changed the religious landscape of our cities and towns, our neighborhoods and schools.

There is no such thing as National character or National Sentiment. The Inhabitants are from all quarters of the globe; and as various in their opinions, projects and schemes, as their manners and habits are from their early education.

I come from a nation of peoples drawn from all around the world.

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

Miami is America’s most diverse city… We have 140 languages we speak..

The fallacies of the Melting Pot theory have also become obvious. Years before the war [WWI] it had become increasingly apparent that the Melting Pot was no longer successfully performing its function; that the American population was losing its homogeneous character; that various nationalities of recent immigrants were forming more and more compact racial "blocs," each bloc tenaciously maintaining its own racial character, customs, and traditions.

When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in Istanbul's old city alone. It's hard to imagine their lives in their human totality.

America is so diverse.

The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.

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

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

Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.

If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed to all different backgrounds, cultures, and religions, fueling my personal interests in global issues.