Skepta Quotes

I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago.

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.

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

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.

We live in a global society today where all our cultures intermingle.

Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.

Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It's like New Orleans; it's a meltdown of other cultures.

The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.

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

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It's really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.

The strength of a culture depends on its capacity to open itself up to other cultures, to integrate itself into them and to integrate them into it.

What goes into the Melting Pot determines what shall come out of it.

Feliz Navidad' has interfaced the English and Spanish cultures to come together and after all, we're living in a multi-cultural world.

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.

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.

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.