J. M. G. Le Clezio Quotes

Culturally, I'm not 100 percent Korean. I'm very mixed and very open.

I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It's not even bi-, it's multi-. You know, for those of us who grew up with different countries on our block, different nationalities, you know, we moved into multiple worlds.

I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.

I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.

The question really isn't whether I'm American, Russian, Iranian, Azerbaijani, or anything else. I've been shaped by all these people and cultures and I feel quite comfortable among all of them

I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things.

I have a lot of cultures within me - I'm basically chop suey.

I'm Italian, but I'm also a little Brazilian: Pirlonho, if you like.

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish; I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.

I feel like I've mixed my Middle Eastern and Western loves together.

I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered.

Like so many people around the world, I consider myself to be of mixed nationality.

I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.

I'm not more Brazilian than I am American or vice-versa - I'm very much a combination of all of those things.

I mean, London has shaped me as a person. My parents are Nigerian so I've had the luxury of blending different cultures together just through my everyday life.

Living through the intersections of cultural diversity has given me an intimate understanding of the dynamics of living between the dimensions of East and West, traditional and modern, and political and spiritual.

All cultures have been mingled forever.