Reem Acra Quotes

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

Honolulu is a melting pot.

I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.

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.

London is a liberal city, in all senses of the word. It is a city built on the idea that the multitude of cultures that inhabit it are a benefit, not a curse, where communities from all over the globe live and work side by side, enriching each other's experiences.

I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things.

The idea of the beauty of diversity came from just growing up where I grew up. Los Angeles is a very big city - there's Little Ethiopia, Little Armenia, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, there's African-Americans, Latinos, Europeans.

New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.

England really is at the forefront of being a melting pot of all cultures.

I mean, London has shaped me as a person. My parents are Nigerian so I've had the luxury of blending different cultures together just through my everyday life.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.

I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.

It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

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

L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony.

The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don't think that we use that. We don't talk about our strengths. I mean, having so many diverse people in this country from all aspects of all over the world, and we don't use that. I think we should talk about who we are - that melting pot that we've become.

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.

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.

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.