#ethnic

Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#food #food

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#friends #love-humanity #prejudice #love

[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out. ↗

— Courtney Love

#germans #germany #ireland #irish #jews

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting. ↗

— Ed Harris

#bigger #competition #differences #ethnic #fighting

Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#borders #country #ethnicity #following #groups

Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names. ↗

— Piper Laurie

#ethnic #everyone #had #lana #names

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#condition #ethnic #group #independence #necessary

Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city. ↗

— Walter Washington

#city #concern #ethnically #for the people #get

The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression—rather [...] it responds with 'benign neglect' [....] The members of ethnic and national groups are protected against discrimination and prejudice, and they are free to maintain whatever part of their ethnic heritage or identity they wish, consistent with the rights of others. But their efforts are purely private, and it is not the place of public agencies to attach legal identities or disabilities to cultural membership or ethnic identity. This separation of state and ethnicity precludes any legal or governmental recognition of ethnic groups, or any use of ethnic criteria in the distribution of rights, resources, and duties. ↗

— Will Kymlicka

#discrimination #ethnicity #individuals #liberalism #liberties

Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened. ↗

— Laurence Moore

#ethnic-group #how-it-happened #lds #mormon #mormonism