Lana Condor Quotes

My parents would dress us up in traditional Vietnamese clothing to go to school for heritage day. We have a Vietnamese nanny that my parents wanted us to have so we could stay in touch and know where we came from.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

I always wanted my kids to be proud of their heritage.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.

Before doing 'Midnight's Children,' I didn't really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was always present, but it did not particularly define my identity. Being English was more an identity-defining status. I was born and brought up in London. Yes, my father is Parsi.

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.

It’s very important that all of us who have bicultural roots retain our culture.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

The ministry of culture is nowhere, but cultural life is everywhere.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.

Obviously, my Indigenous culture is very special to me.

I didn't emphasize my Jewishness because I wanted to. I just happen to have been raised in a family where everybody happened to talk like this, so why would I talk like somebody else?

My mom is African-American, Native-American, Irish, and Creole, and my father is of Jewish, Russian, and Polish descent. It's made me who I am. Because of my diverse background, I think I can relate to many different people, different stories, and different communities.

I am an ordinary woman from a Tamil family.

What it depends on is someone's upbringing and the traditions and that is how you decide if you are Jewish or not.