Sonia Rykiel Quotes

Honolulu is a melting pot.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

A lot of people don't know this, but Toronto is probably the most multicultural city in North America.

I lived in L.A. for four years, and basically, every corner you go to, or in a restaurant, you can't even find people from the same background.

'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

Australia will be a multiracial nation in the future.

The melting pot was always a tension between difference and sameness.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

I really love Japan, and I liked living there very much, and there are so many terrific things about Japan. However, I do think what's amazing is that Japan really prides itself on being monoracial. It doesn't have the same kind of idea as in the U.K. or Canada or the United States, in which the idea of diversity is a strength.

We talk about America as a melting pot, where you can't turn salt into pepper. Then you got too much pepper. You need the salt. You need the paprika. You need the broth.

England really is at the forefront of being a melting pot of all cultures.

New York is like a melting pot: so many different people, so many different cultures.

To me, America is a symbol of all different views, different types of people coming together.

We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.