Rostam Batmanglij Quotes

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.

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

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

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

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

I feel Anglo-American.

We used to have a view that to really be a good Australian, to love Australia, you almost had to cut your links with the country of origin. But I don’t think that was right and it never was right.

I love my heritage. I'm very proud of being Cuban. But I clearly understand that I am an American first.

Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.

Sometimes I struggle with being American.

I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of Gaunt's 'This sceptred isle' speech and not feel proud to be British.

I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

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

Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.

I'm very American.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.