Romesh Ranganathan Quotes

Definitely the Korean culture is very strong to me, and I grew up in Hawaii where Asian-Americans are the dominant culture, but I never thought of myself as the minority.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

American histories were the same; they had these mad ideas about how Parliament worked, or what people really meant when they said A, B, or C. All my life, I felt simultaneously deracinated and rooted in both places, and now it's my greatest strength: I'm culturally bilingual.

I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.

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

Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

Before doing 'Midnight's Children,' I didn't really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was always present, but it did not particularly define my identity. Being English was more an identity-defining status. I was born and brought up in London. Yes, my father is Parsi.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

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.

My cultural roots are something illusive.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.