Malcolm Fraser Quotes

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

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.

We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.

What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.

I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

Those who do not want to participate in the spirit of America should not settle in America.

It is often not even wise to try to make an American of the best of aliens.

There is less and less of France abroad, and more that is foreign in France.

The unifying characteristics that make us Americans are becoming more and more diluted now because new immigrants want to set up ethnic enclaves to retain their culture and language.

There are neighborhoods in France that are not French… Why would immigrants want to change France is they left their country to live in France? .. You have two kinds of people living in France: The French and the others…. To offer something to the world, France has to remain France.|

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

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

I am more South African than Pakistani now. It's a great country, and I have met so many nice people.

I'm an Australian. And I'm speaking generally here, but Australians in general aren't patriotic or nationalistic. Our country was built by immigrants. So, by my experience, I've seen the way immigration has transformed nations. They are the key people who quite literally build civilizations, be it culturally or musically.

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

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

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

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

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

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.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

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

Traditionally, the ideology of the United States nationhood perpetuated the myth that immigrants would shed their particularistic ethnic identities and loyalties. Eventually these “strangers” would be assimilated into a homogeneous body politic that was based on the equality of individual rights.

Immigrants want to change our values and our way of life.