Mohsin Hamid Quotes

I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.

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

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.

We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened

They are already here...they are called Hungarians!

Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.

Immigration is important. We're a nation of immigrants.

I pride myself on being Japanese American.

I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

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.

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.