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We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.
To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced, bridged, balanced, and identify with. I am proud to be who I am as a Dine' (Navajo) and Nahilii (African American) woman. Hozho', , & blessings
No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.
If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.
Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.
Race determines everything in the criminal justice system
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.
Race has no genetic or scientific basis.
I dont see things with gender, race and culture
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.
Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.
I am myself of a mixed background.
I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.
Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.
Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
Human beings are not black and white.
Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
Ethnicity and morality can of course combine, giving the sense that "we" are "good" and "they" are "bad.
[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.
I discuss humanity and not races.
There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification ... I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't ... We're very closely related.
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.
I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free to be whoever I want to be.
This nationality business helps you make a great story and satisfies your hunger for ascription of causes. It seems to be the dump site where all explanations go until one can ferret out a more obvious one (such as, say, some evolutionary argument that "makes sense"). Indeed,
There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
One's identity derives not from one's nation or blood but from the language one uses.
Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose interbreeding, as a result of the expansion of world economy, is so far advanced that racial purity can have meaning only to a numbskull.
of body, tall Negroes from Africa, small wizen-faced Jews,
No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.
No races, few permitted variant alleles. Anything else arouses hostility,
I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.
Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.
When ethnicity is all you think about, there's bound to be confrontation ... But if we see each other as individuals, then it's possible to treat each other as equals.
Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today ... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.
When a man is born ... there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.
To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.
You can only rule over a subject race, especially when you are in a small minority, if you honestly believe yourself to be racially superior, and it helps towards this if you can believe that the subject race is biologically different.
I'm a Caucasian American Jew. These are all things that make up who I am.
Race matters, and it matters most in those moments when we wish it didn't matter at all.
Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.
Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.
There's no Black, White, Asian, or Latinos. The only "RACE" is the "HUMAN-RACE".
Biologically valid races are not real, but cultural racism is, and we must understand how this cultural reality affects our everyday interactions.
All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.
I'm part Chinese, part Hawaiian, part Filipino, and part nigger. You'd hate to be me
I don't think culture is something you can describe.
Game of deducing a person's character from that person's appearance is an old pastime with racists and with those who seek an advantage over the poor or the ugly, the disabled, or any underrepresented minority.
You may be scorned in the public because of your race it is a function that there is an assignment for you there
A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
It is not the race that makes the civilization, it is the civilization that makes the people: circumstances geographical, economic, and political create a culture, and the culture creates a human type.
I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.
Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.
Ethnicity and tribe began, by definition, where sovereignty and taxes ended. The ethnic zone was feared and stigmatized by state rhetoric precisely because it was beyond its grasp and therefore an example of defiance and an ever-present temptation to those who might wish to evade the state.
I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.
Few things are more annoying than too many of any one ethnicity in the same room.
If you are a writer for a specific nation or a specific race, then fuck you.
Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age ... because "everything is global, man!"
A clear and unified voice. In that context, this business of being biracial, of being half black and half white, is awkward.
Once again, my dad knew something I didn't. Looking back, I realize it wasn't just I was Asian. I was a loud-mounthed, brash, broken Asian who had no respect for authority in any form, wether it was a parent, teacher, or country. Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn't Asian either. (148)
Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.
One thing that unites us all, one thing is universal among the human species; the anatomy. Big, small, fat, thin, colour or creed are irrelevant. Under the skin, under the flesh, we are one and the same. We desire the same things; love, money, power. All the things we can not have, not without cost.
The only thing Oriental about me is my face,
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
Class is a stronger social adhesive than nationality.
Tribally speaking...
It's not about where you come from. It's about who you are-- T.j. Klune
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
If you come from a place of love, and you're not saying, 'I'm better than you,' that's one thing that allows you to talk about different ethnicities. It's almost like laughing with each other.
Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.
When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.
I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.
Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.
The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always be identified within specific historical popular collectivities.
and subordinate groups are defined along ethnic and/or racial lines, and where the relationship is established and maintained to serve the interests
The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
Education and knowledge are the power of the minorities in this country
Chinese people questioned my yellowness because I was born in America. Then white people questioned my identity as an American because I was yellow.
When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.
When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.
Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.
I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
Islam is an ideology. It's not a race.
I'm very aware of my own background. I'm Irish, French, and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to Native American. We're talking about tiny drops of blood.
I'm of Arab background.
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.
The majority of my blood is Asian.