Moshe Sharett Quotes

Americans want to be exposed to the opportunities that a changing world can offer.

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.

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 always attracting people, from all over the earth.

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.

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

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

The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

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

The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting India's diversity.

Singapore is an international city, and it would be a grave mistake to close our doors.

We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

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

We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.

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

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition.

Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.

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.

One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!

So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else.