Quotes About Assimilation

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad.

I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

In the long run one gets used to anything.

Oh, people get used to so many things, " said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.

Only those exceptional at mimicking others feel at ease in the world.

I don't live life to be different.I live life to be the same.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Like all things new, it was awkward at first, until I got accustomed to it.

You southerners, he said. I've been here for fifteen years and I'll never understand you.

Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

It turns out, you can get used to almost anything. What one day seems a shocking, unbearable outrage over time comes to seem ordinary, unremarkable.