Art Malik Quotes

New Americans are not to be feared as strangers. They are to be welcomed as neighbors.

Immigrants are changed by the greater society. Immigrants change the greater society.

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

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

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

Our first challenge in America today is simply to open our eyes to these changes, to discover America anew, and to explore the many ways in which the new immigration has changed the religious landscape of our cities and towns, our neighborhoods and schools.

As to other foreigners it is thought better to discourage their settling together in large masses, wherein, as in our German settlements, they preserve for a long time their own languages, habits, and principles of government, and that they should distribute themselves sparsely among the natives for quicker amalgamation.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

The Melting Pot

The fallacies of the Melting Pot theory have also become obvious. Years before the war [WWI] it had become increasingly apparent that the Melting Pot was no longer successfully performing its function; that the American population was losing its homogeneous character; that various nationalities of recent immigrants were forming more and more compact racial "blocs," each bloc tenaciously maintaining its own racial character, customs, and traditions.

Why can't you ask people if they want more or fewer Germans or Belgians or Moroccans?

American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.

It is important that those that do come to settle in the U.K. gain a sense of British identity and share British values. We have always attracted the best and brightest.

When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in Istanbul's old city alone. It's hard to imagine their lives in their human totality.

There's a huge Indian population here in Toronto. Also, Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Edmonton - Canada really is a great multicultural country.

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

Southall Broadway, in west London, has been a constant part of my life from the day I arrived in England as a baby from Kenya in 1962. My parents rented a room in one of the terraces off the Broadway, and I've seen it change from an ordinary English high street to what is now 'Little India.' with a confident Asian community.

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

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

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.

The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting India's diversity.

We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.