I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confused, so I grew up… — Sophie Hawley-Weld Copy Share Image
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
“National identity acts as a consumer lever to manipulate the emotions of the masses, for the purposes of power regulation and the… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel. — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
But the European Union does not have a concept of national identity. It was set up to abolish that idea, not to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“Whenever a party tells you national identity matters more than anything else in politics, that nationalism can sort out all the other… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Canadians were the first anti-Americans, and the best. Canadian anti-Americanism, just as the country's French-English duality, has for two centuries been the… — Jack Granatstein Copy Share Image
For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“For all his paranoid alarm, Bannon believes that the rise of nationalist movements across the world, from Europe to Japan to the… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
The basis of national identity is to say, "This is authentic to me or my forebears," and is there even such a… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers,… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“Neither dynasty, nor language, nor religion brought about a Swiss national identity that could bolster a Swiss political nation. Instead, modern Switzerland… — Clive H. Church and Randolph C. Head Copy Share Image
I believe, as a Puerto Rican, that the majority of Puerto Ricans want to be Puerto Ricans. Once we become annexed to… — Oscar Lopez Rivera Copy Share Image
“Somehow Malaysia must find a way to create racially neutral space in the public sphere. This is not an easy task as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“A language has genius. Some works translate well, others are untranslatable. Molière is effective only in French. Without knowing Arabic nobody has… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“By 1938, Scotland had for nearly 200 years lived within a classic peripheral identity assigned to it by the artists and ideologues… — Colin McArthur Copy Share Image
There won't be a law with sanctions, but Mexicans and Mexican consumers will know how to value those companies that are loyal… — Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Copy Share Image
“their nation with the same national identity and adopting the same name? Only Israel can make that claim.” — John Price Copy Share Image
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of… — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
I find myself increasingly forced to think of my ethnic identity instead of the national identity I adopted as a boy in… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
“Grundtvig believed that national identity was about a sense of belonging, that Denmark should not pursue outer grandeur but seek prosperity in… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
An affection for Hong Kong and a national identity are not mutually exclusive. We can let children learn more about Hong Kong's… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
If the 14th Amendment represents the struggle to build inclusive models of national identity untethered from racial caste or classification, then Trump… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Most of us in the media are, by and large, sentimental about our national identity, but comfortable enough in our skins as… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
“Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflicting interests, so lost in… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Syrians have a national identity beyond the sectarian divide. Syria's national identity would be weaker and poorer if it didn't have this… — Burhan Ghalioun Copy Share Image
Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity. In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
