Biculturalism Quotes

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

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

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.

I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish.

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia.

I think being bi-continental is something I want to continue. Kuala Lumpur is my home, but L.A. is where I've been able to make the music that I want.

I made 'The Farewell' for me, for my family, and for other immigrant children, or children of immigrants, who feel caught in-between two worlds.

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.

I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

It’s very important that all of us who have bicultural roots retain our culture.

We quarrel with no man for being a foreigner, but we recognize the moral right in no class of American citizens to train up their children to be foreigners, and then to claim for them all the rights, franchises, and immunities of American citizens.

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there until I was eight, and then moved to Australia with my mother and father. So yeah, I'm very mixed up, been to many different schools.

Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.

Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.

My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.