Yvonne Orji Quotes

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

Immigrants bring growth, creativity, and opportunity to America. They are the cornerstone of much of our great nation's cultural heritage.

Invite colonists from all the other nations of Europe.

If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

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.

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.

We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.

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?

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

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

The melting pot was always a tension between difference and sameness.

Our nation has been called a melting pot. I think of it more as a mosaic, one to which many groups make their own distinct contributions.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

There is less and less of France abroad, and more that is foreign in France.

Immigrants are changed by the greater society. Immigrants change the greater society.

The Melting Pot

We have too many foreigners in France. Diversity is not working.

It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?

There has never been an immigrant group that has not contributed to America more than it has received.

The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place - one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on.

Like the Caribbean Windrush generation, my parents came to this country from the Commonwealth in the 1960s. They, too, came to help rebuild this country and offer all that they had.