Al Pacino Quotes

I've always seen myself as an all-American kid, you know. You're not just white or black or Asian or Latino. We're in the melting pot of America.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

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.

There are men of eighteen different languages; they are scattered here and there upon the [Hudson] river.

The fallacies of the Melting Pot theory have also become obvious. Years before the war [WWI] it had become increasingly apparent that the Melting Pot was no longer successfully performing its function; that the American population was losing its homogeneous character; that various nationalities of recent immigrants were forming more and more compact racial "blocs," each bloc tenaciously maintaining its own racial character, customs, and traditions.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

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

We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American.

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.

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting.

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

Our nation has been called a melting pot. I think of it more as a mosaic, one to which many groups make their own distinct contributions.

The melting pot has sprung a leak.

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The Melting Pot

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

I may be brown on the outside, but on the inside, I'm all American.

'Yellow Face' marks my summation of multiculturalism.

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

Every race is totally different.