Hasan Minhaj Quotes

I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.

I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

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.

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.

I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations.

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

There is no such thing as National character or National Sentiment. The Inhabitants are from all quarters of the globe; and as various in their opinions, projects and schemes, as their manners and habits are from their early education.

I am Chinese, but I am thoroughly American.

My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.

I am a first generation American, and my family is from Bulgaria.

I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture.

All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.

When you are in America, at least for me, as an immigrant, I try to be as Americanized as I could. I just want to be an actor, I don't just want to be an Asian actor necessarily.

My parents were first-generation immigrants. My mum wore a sari but at school and as a teenager and in my 20s I wanted to fit in.