Melanie Fiona Quotes

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

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

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

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

In Florida, we're the best melting pot in the world. We love everybody coming to our state.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

'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.

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory.

Everybody came from somewhere here in New York.

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