Sanjeev Bhaskar Quotes

I'm American; I was born and raised in America, and I don't want to fake who I am to fit a stereotype.

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

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I knew, there were people in America suggesting I head back to Britain if I was unhappy at such a prospect.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

I tell people, 'I'm American. I act.'

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.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.

I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?

So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget.