Sid Sriram Quotes

In my 40s, the two cultures finally came to peace with one other inside me, and I have come to identify myself as both 100% Chinese and 100% American simultaneously.

I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

I grew up thinking of myself as an American but also, because of my parents and the Iranian culture that was in our home, as an Iranian. So if there's any such thing as dual loyalty, then I have it - at least culturally.

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

I can be a mix of both. I don't have to be an Indian or an American. They're not mutually exclusive. It's something growing up I didn't know.

I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.

I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered.

I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.

I grew up very American but also fully Asian.

Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

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

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

The question really isn't whether I'm American, Russian, Iranian, Azerbaijani, or anything else. I've been shaped by all these people and cultures and I feel quite comfortable among all of them

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

I often say to my friends that I felt too Puerto Rican to live in the States; then I felt too American to live in Puerto Rico. So when I settled back in Puerto Rico in 1992, I had to come to terms with all of that.

Literally everything good about this culture comes from mixing.

I feel like I've mixed my Middle Eastern and Western loves together.

I'm not trying to erase my culture or my faith, I'm trying to be the best version of myself, and it's really hard. I don't think I'm right, I don't claim to be correct, I'm just trying to figure it out and figure out a balance.

Culturally, I'm not 100 percent Korean. I'm very mixed and very open.

As a 'parisien d'adoption,' I am only semicognizant of where I may fit at any given time into the French social fabric.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.