Naomie Harris Quotes

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

The history of Hawaii may be seen as a story of arrivals.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

America has always imported history.

Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules.

Our country is a country where immigration is history and it is a country where immigration is destiny.

Of the hundred million of the population of Greater France, almost sixty are not of European origin. If they are to be kept in permanent French allegiance their loyalty must be secured. The French flatter themselves that they are peculiarly successful in winning the affections of those over whom they rule. So be it, though it is probable they entertain a good many illusions in this respect.

The reality of Britain is vibrant multiculturalism, but the myth we export is an all-white world of lords and ladies. Conversely, American society is pretty segregated, but the myth it exports is of a racial melting-pot, everyone solving crimes and fighting aliens side by side.

The story of the British empire helps to explain the roots of most British people: white, black, and Asian.

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.

We made the U.K. our home, and I'm lucky enough that I get to call myself British and have such great support at home.

I have black friends, but I don't just hang out with black kids. I might pull up with Indian kids, white kids, black kids, whatever.

That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.

I think we forget that, for a really long time, this country has been a place that has welcomed many refugees who have made it home and have tremendously contributed to this country.

I have no problems with a multicultural society; I think that is to the benefit of the country. But you have to be careful what levels you take it to.

Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.

Importing foreign labor has always been the American way, beginning with 4 million slaves from Africa. Later came the Jews and Poles, the Hungarians, Italians and Irish, the Chinese and Japanese - everything you learned in sixth grade social studies about the great American melting pot.

We've been ahead for so long in the U.K., we're so multicultural, and that's the beauty. That's why grime was formed, from this mix, this understanding of different people.