Ethnic Ties Quotes

Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.

The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.

I entered KC College in 1975. When I came here for my interview, for my admission, every person I spoke to spoke to me in Sindhi. Be it Kundanani, Bhambani, Nichani, Kevalramani... and they also thought that Ambani was the same. For a moment, I thought that I got my admission at KC College because I have a 'ni' in my surname.

A lot of the Indian supporters would have been born in Birmingham, have Birmingham accents. It is my home city as well. Second, third generations from the sub-continent still support India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

I am sure that the Japanese, the Chinese and the peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France, in spite of the fact that we are related by blood (...)

The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.

We in Russia have always considered Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. I still think so.

Jews, when they get successful, they will help their people.

Moroccan boys never steal from Moroccans.

I talk to everyone, but most of the people I hang out with are Latin.

The Jewish community has always taken care of its own.

If you're a doctor, or a scientist, or a computer programmer, it shouldn't matter whether you come from Nigeria, or Norway, or any other country on this earth. Today though we have a system that rewards ties of blood, ties of kin, ties of clan. That's one of the most un-American immigration systems I can imagine.

If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.

I love Mexico. I mean, Mexico, I have thousands of people from Mexico that work for me. Thousands. Hispanics.

Old Germany in Europe and Young Germany in America, powerful exchanges of influence.

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.