Multiculturalism Quotes - Page 3

• I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all tend to understand a little more the needs for harmonizing the process and integrating races and cultures and producing multiculturalism and different melting-pot situations. That affects global things, tolerating the Arab, the African, the Eastern civilizations, getting rid of this hegemonic dominance by the West. That's all comprehensive now in terms both of understanding and approaching the whole planet.

  Gilberto Gil

  Thinking, Civilization, Race

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• That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, School, Curriculum

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.

  Stephen Harper

  Practice, Community, Facts

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• It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Growing Up, Issues, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my thirties, I have felt a greater urgency to make art that highlights what it feels like to be racialized, likely due to living in a country that obscures our racism with the idea of "multiculturalism."

  Vivek Shraya

  Country, Art, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. And yet with more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

  David Simon

  Running, Cities, Ideas

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

  David Henry Hwang

  Yellow, Faces, Mark

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• Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not only linguistic meanings but also an experience and history. Those communities have progressively split in the twentieth century, and grown more heterogeneous, and writers emerging from minority communities have found themselves addressing audiences closer to their experience and history - a phenomenon derided by conservative white men as identity politics and multiculturalism in the arts.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Art, Men, Identity Politics

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or she belongs).

  Amartya Sen

  Loyalty, Giving, People

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