Quotes About Assimilation

Con ng??i sinh ra Ä'ã khác nhau; h? Ä'ánh m?t tá»± do xã há»™i và Ä'á»™c l?p cá nhân c?a mình trong khi tìm cách tr? thành gi?ng nhau.

I explained that he was Chinese, and she asked if the movie would be in Chinese. No, I said, he lives in America. In California. He's been there since he was a baby. Then what does it matter if he's Chinese? Well, I said, he's got... you know, a sensibility.

English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, its shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar—the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... but you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained.

Irie verdrehte die Augen. Manchmal möchte man anders sein. Und manchmal würde man die Haare auf seinem Kopf hergeben, um so zu sein wie alle anderen.

I do not always feel colored. Even now I often achieve the unconscious Zora of Eatonville before the Hegira. I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background. For instance at Barnard. Beside the waters of the Hudson I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again.

It takes me a while to absorb things.

I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard being so different from everyone I was around, and I felt that nobody could really understand me because everyone was American, and I was this little English girl with an accent.

When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.

I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent.

There's sometimes an accent on TV and it's like 'are you American?', because I can kind of pick up on it a little bit and I never want to be in that position.

In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.

Seeing people ahead of time and getting acquainted with the space you're playing in is important to getting comfortable in that place.

You've got to be able to adapt to your environment.

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

When you come to a new club, it takes time to adapt.

You never know for sure whether a player will adapt to a new country until he gets there.

I am always trying to learn and adapt.

I think when you move to a country like the U.S., you need to understand the culture, to understand how people see the game, and adapt yourself.

I know that if I have come to Britain, I must adapt, and I will try to.

It's funny how quickly human beings adapt.

We adapt very quickly to things, don't we?

When you go to a club you have to adapt to the club, the country, food, but not Neymar.

It's normal, of course, a process of adaptation to a different league.