Regional Discrimination Quotes

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.

Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north during World War II, they were aggressively excluded from neighborhoods, jobs, and homes - not because of their skin color, but their accents.

Many people compare the agitation of MNS with Shiv Sena because of the mode of agitation. But the main difference is that while Shiv Sena launched an agitation for the poor Marathi unemployed youth, the agitation of MNS is directed against the 'goondaism' of North Indians.

We will not stop until the dogs stop biting us in the South and the rats stop biting us in the North.

There is a lot of discrimination between artistes from Kerala and from other states. Artistes from other states are paid more here. Once I told the ad guy that you won't be able to afford me next time. After that, I have neither done any ads nor has anyone approached me.

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

All we ever got in those [early] days was "Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool.