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This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed. -- Angela Merkel
I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated. -- Neve Campbell
We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace. -- Cheech Marin
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense. -- Catharine MacKinnon
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage. -- Harold Bloom
Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates. -- Jacob Zuma
I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food. -- Hugh Jackman
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. -- Ishmael Reed
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting. -- Viggo Mortensen
I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language. -- Sarah Shahi
I come from a specific area in Beirut where it's multicultural, and it's a culture that blends with multiple cultures - it's unbelievable lifestyle. -- Reem Acra
To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me. -- Tavis Smiley
I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society. -- John Key
I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians. -- Roger Martin
The minute that you make the discussion in the room more well-rounded, multicultural, and of course having differences in gender, you're going to have a different approach. -- Cara Santa Maria
One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis. -- Baz Luhrmann
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will. -- Octavia Spencer
The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides. -- Mark Steyn
Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal. -- Priscilla Ahn
The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country. -- Naomie Harris
The old boy network is still too strong in Canadian business. A visit to the Toronto clubs at lunch stands in about as great a contrast to the multicultural, multiracial subway underneath as can be humanly imagined. This is not healthy. -- Bob Rae
I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth. -- Robbie Coltraine
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood. -- Carlos Ghosn
There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind. -- Michael Savage
The true France is a multicultural France. Where someone is appointed minister not because she is a woman but because she is competent. And not because she is from a visible minority. I am against positive discrimination. Someone can be intelligent and black, and someone can be an imbecile and white. -- Patrick Gaubert
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. -- Michael Ignatieff
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep. -- Geraldine Brooks
I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society. -- Trevor Phillips
Fleeing persecution is not a crime. And we do not seek to pander to a noisy, tiny minority who will never embrace modern multicultural Australia. But there are important truths we must face. There is a history and a reality that we cannot ignore. The challenge before us is real, the questions we grapple with as elemental as life and death. -- Bill Shorten
This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed, -- Angela Merkel
The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom. -- David Platt
I feel very fortunate that I was raised in a multicultural family, and it came through food. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific. -- Dinesh Sharma
I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it, as well. -- June Jordan
I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin privilege from the time I was little, I was aware of that. -- Sarah Jones
Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and narrative, and you know, like anyone else, I kind of wanted to do it, too. -- Matt de la Pena
We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law. -- Tim Soutphommasane
When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin countries read my books because they share the same international aesthetic that I'm into and have been into for a long time. And it's multicultural. -- Ishmael Reed
Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It's really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, 'Oh, the other, get them out of here.' -- Geraldine Brooks
Ajax is a multicultural club, and we have found that many talented immigrant players quit when they reach puberty. So we wanted to tackle this problem with someone from the same background who had come through it. And that was Edgar Davids. During one of our fights, I pointed that out to him. But it had nothing to do with his skin colour. -- Johan Cruyff
I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find New York to be quite as diverse. Maybe I'm romanticising, but I feel that I was exposed to a real melting pot in terms of culture and pop culture. My kids are essentially middle-class, but I do try to remind them that they come from humble beginnings. -- Carmen Ejogo
I was born in San Francisco. I was raised in Oakland, so I'm, like, super Bay Area born, and, you know, it's just really multicultural up there, and there's a lot of subcultures just from, like, anything, like from rockabilly to, like, crazy punk scenes to, you know, a huge rap scene, and there's just all kinds of things you can do out there. -- Kreayshawn
London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth. -- JJ Feild
A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility. -- Satoshi Kanazawa
My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings. -- Patricia Polacco
Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community. -- Denis Napthine
I believe all societies, all thriving societies of the future are going to be multicultural societies. -- Manmohan Singh
Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship. -- Immortal Technique
Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization. -- Van Jones
Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in. -- Viggo Mortensen
We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that. -- Jennifer Lee
I never would like to be a country that is that multicultural that, for instance, the Islamic values become more dominant. We should not do that. We should stop that. -- Geert Wilders
My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family - a lot of Spanish speakers in the family. -- Cary Fukunaga
Though your major media kept smacking me upside the head with the word "multicultural," you goddamned Australians are the most racist bunch of people I've ever seen in my life. -- Jim Goad
[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them. -- Robert Charles Wilson
I would not say Denmark is a multicultural country, but more people live here now who have different roots, backgrounds and religions, more than 30 years ago. This also applies to religions. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples -- Aga Khan IV
I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like. -- Ban Ki-moon
If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the UK you're labelled a racist. But here we're still free to talk, and I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart. -- Pim Fortuyn
I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about the state of the world - to enhance the importance of multicultural connection. -- Paulo Coelho
Australia has an increasingly multicultural society. -- Julie Bishop
My wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multicultural. -- Jeremy Corbyn
Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents. -- Melanie Fiona
I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural. -- Cornel West
I like multi-multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement. -- Rossana Condoleo
I believe whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies. -- Manmohan Singh
If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false. -- Andrew Rannells
I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual. -- Wyclef Jean
My favourite city for nightlife is Toronto, as it has such a multicultural feel, with so many different restaurants and theatres. -- Chris Hadfield
My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society. -- Johan Cruyff
The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity. -- Tom Gjelten
We live in the most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, and I get the sense that because of that reality so many of us are turning nativist. -- Max Lucado

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