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I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Am American American Values Chinese Chinese Culture Culture Emotional Emotional Level Know Level Means Values I Am

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At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture.

~Amy Tan

Topics: About Always American American Culture Anything Based Beginning Beliefs Career Chinese Chinese Culture Confusion Culture Different Different Beliefs Emotional Family Family History Felt Hers Hesitant History Knew Know Mother Nothing Our Related Talking Which Writer Writing

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The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: American Approach Attacks Center Fundamental Government Islamic Pentagon Prompted September Shift Terrorism Trade World World Trade World Trade Center

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I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?

~Amy Waldman

Topics: Afterwards American Attacks Been Country Decade Different Different Way Happened In The Past Kind Know Like Lot Past Questions Response Some Think Totally Very Wake Way Were Who You I Think

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So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: American Anonymous Architect Born Competition Design His Khan Memorial Muslim Name Premise Raised Submission Virginia Won

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Americans are shy about the body.

~Ana Beatriz Barros

Topics: About American Body Shy

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I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

~Ana Castillo

Topics: American American Citizen American Citizens Citizen Citizens Looked Obviously Parents

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Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

~Ana Navarro

Topics: Absurd American American Politics Hypocrisy Just Needs Out Point Politics Reached Where

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Miami is one of these places where diversity is in our blood, where, you know, if you want to go have a Nicaraguan breakfast, a Cuban lunch, and an American diner dinner, you do.

~Ana Navarro

Topics: American Blood Breakfast Cuban Diner Dinner Diversity Go Know Lunch Miami Our Places Want Where You

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People say to me all the time, 'When did you know that you had fully become an American?' And I say, 'The day I realized I loved peanut butter.'

~Ana Navarro

Topics: American Become Butter Day Did Fully Had Know Loved Me Peanut Peanut Butter People People Say Realized Say Time You

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