Flo Rida Quotes

Everything has changed since I came to China.

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Whatever country you go to, you need to definitely follow the rules. So I believe it's very important for people, wherever they go, any immigrant should know or should try to learn something about the culture.

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

I think that we in the West expect people to adapt to our culture very, very quickly when they come to our country. But when we go over to someone else's, I don't think we are willing to meet them halfway like we expect them to meet us. I think having cultural sensitivity is a lot more important than we realize.

In the late 20th century, it became possible to travel between cultures, between the old world and the new, with great ease. So when you go back, you take the changed person with you who, in turn, changes things that otherwise might have stayed the same.

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

Personally, I have been enriched by my experiences in Egypt and America, and feel fortunate to have been endowed with a true passion for knowledge.

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

We live in a global society today where all our cultures intermingle.

Certainly, the foreigner the better.

China is a company of contradictions. Nothing is what it appears to be. We have to be extremely respectful when we go overseas.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world.