Nico Santos Quotes

I just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

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

My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too.

I grew up Mexican.

I'm a whole lot more than just Spanish or Irish or whatever, but definitely, it's given me help. It's given me a push, and I'm very proud of my Spanish heritage.

I've always been more in touch with my Ecuadorian side. I speak Spanish.

I really hold on to my culture because it is what made me.

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

I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door.

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

I have Asian friends - second generation - and I am the worst in terms of being in touch with my heritage.

I think everyone is kind of an immigrant somehow, and I wasn't raised in an American society at home. My household was a Jamaican household, so I got all my traditions, all my roots and culture intact, so I'm able to support both countries.

There are several different traits that make up a person's identity. For me, being Vietnamese American is the entirety of who I am.

With immigrant parents, they've had to sacrifice so much to survive, and they're trying to preserve the culture they lost, so there are just so many boundaries.

I'm very much an Arab, although I need to practise my Arabic more.

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

I'm still ghetto. That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture.

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

Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.

I havent lost my culture, just my accent.

I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.