Brad Pitt Quotes

If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment - you need visuals that represent that.

I grew up in a family that had young people adopted from all over the world.

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

Fernanda Andrade and Daphne Zuniga are two beautiful, inspiring women I met and became very close with while living in L.A. Daphne's father is from Central America, and Fernanda is originally from Brazil.

Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

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.

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

Assimilation is what has made America great.

The United States, of course, is determined to diversify Europe to such an extent that it becomes a meaningless entity.

The Melting Pot

Discrimination still exists. Some people feel that their own beliefs are being threatened. Some are unhappy about unfamiliar cultures. They all need to be reassured that there is so much to be gained by reaching out to others; that diversity is indeed a strength and not a threat.

I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.

I went to a school called Waterford Kamhlaba, and 'Kamhlaba' is what the king of Swaziland called the school because... in siSwati, it means 'all the world in one.'

We are surrounded by people with accents because America is a nation of immigrants. Beyond that, the people who made your iPhone and the shirt on your back are probably Asians, and we're really not that disconnected from each other; we have very intimate relationships with the world, whether or not we realize it.

Oh, I think Canadians look like all sorts of people. That's the beauty of Canada.

I am from L.A., my siblings are from L.A., but both my parents are from Guatemala, and I have a lot of family members from Mexico.

We talk about America as a melting pot, where you can't turn salt into pepper. Then you got too much pepper. You need the salt. You need the paprika. You need the broth.

Right now there are a lot of Angels represented. We are from all over the world. We come from different backgrounds. We all had different lives before this, so it is really interesting how a lot of different nationalities are represented, and it is super cool.

I feel like, of course, Houston has Asian fans and Japanese fans, and Asian fans live all over the place.

Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.

The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

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?

In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition.