Boris Trajkovski Quotes

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

I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

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

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the sort. I am just a Nigerian who's comfortable in other places.

You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.

I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.

It takes three-quarters of the world in these days to hold the Irish family, and is pleasant to know that some of the elder sons of the family are considered by their discriminating fellow citizens worthy to be entrusted with the liberties and fortunes of their adopted countries.

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

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.

While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.

I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

There's so much negativity over this issue of dual nationality - nearly always from people who don't have mixed family backgrounds and don't understand that it's perfectly natural for those of us who do, to feel loyalty to more than one country.

We can serve as bridges, we who identify as hyphenated Americans, because we are all global citizens, and that's why being cognizant of our histories is important.

Growing up as Chinese-American, as someone who experienced racism, questions of 'otherness' are always at the forefront of my mind.

I just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

There is a struggle when you do represent so many countries within you, but that makes you who you are.

I am a permanent legal resident of this country, I was born in Korea; my parents came to America for a better life for our family, I've lived here nearly my whole life, and even though I consider myself through and through Korean and American, I guess when it comes down to it, anyone can take away my identity. It doesn't belong to me.

I believe my soul isn't entirely German because my home is so disorderly.

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

When it comes to Eurasians, are we not allowed to embrace either one of our cultures we feel more attached to? Or decide within ourselves that I am Asian and I am proud to be Asian?

I am so proud to be Ukrainian, and I'm also so proud to be an American.