Fionnula Flanagan Quotes

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.

The Melting Pot

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.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

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.

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?

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?

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

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.

I come from a nation of peoples drawn from all around the world.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

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

… mongrel nation

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.

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.

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

The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place - one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on.

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.

We're a nation of immigrants.

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