David Chalmers Quotes

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

Like many foreign students when they go abroad, I was instantly thrust into a position of having to explain and defend my country. That is a very common predicament.

I feel so much more connected with my Asian side than I do with my British side - of course, I'm proud of my British side.

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem very sure of, like, being Nigerian. And I'm just kind of, like, I wish I could be that sure.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.

I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French, but we are British, thank God.

We used to have a view that to really be a good Australian, to love Australia, you almost had to cut your links with the country of origin. But I don’t think that was right and it never was right.

I just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

Spanish is actually my first language, growing up, and I understand the culture. I understand the culture; I understand what the people want.

I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

In England, we've spent a bit of time being lost as to what our modern identity is.

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

When I go to Brazil, I feel like an American, and in the U.S., I always notice the traits that make me Brazilian.