Dennis Chavez Quotes

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

We used to have a view that to really be a good Australian, to love Australia, you almost had to cut your links with the country of origin. But I don’t think that was right and it never was right.

My son will be an American, but I remain French.

I served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force and currently serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Yet I still experience people telling me to 'go back' to China or North Korea or Japan. Like many immigrants, I have learned to brush off this racist insult.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.

We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, in terms of, like, our nationality, our country. But we're people from somewhere else; the true 'Americans' are the original peoples. It's funny, but we're a very territorial species.

In this war I am completely English.

I am so proud to be Ukrainian, and I'm also so proud to be an American.

I hold both of them with equal amounts of pride. I feel just as strongly and equally Mexican as I do American.

I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.

As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.