Quotes About Assimilation

Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.

Saying... 'Come as you are, keep living like you do, keep your culture, and we will add all that together,' doesn't work.

You always need a certain amount of time to fully adjust; it was no different when I moved to the Bundesliga.

Beveren helped me a lot to adjust to Europe.

Any time you go into a new environment, you have to learn a new system, there are adjustments you have to make.

I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

It takes time to adapt to become an Arsenal player.

Under the general plan of nonresistance one may take the position of imitation. The aim of such an attitude is to assimilate the culture and the social behavior-pattern of the dominant group. It is the profound capitulation to the powerful, because it means the yielding of oneself to that which, deep within, one recognizes as being unworthy. It makes for a strategic loss of self-respect.

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

they were slowly learning English, not to the superseding of the native tongue but to the supplementing of it, bilingualism being the proper present goal of the Yukon Indians.

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

Eat what you desire, but dress like other people.

Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured

What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

Sólo la búsqueda de la verdad resulta válida, siendo el deseo de saber el motivo inicial. El método es la asimilación, no el estudio.

Todo lo que entra en una mina de sal se convierte en sal.

The imitator is like a canal. It does not itself drink, but may transit water to the thirsty.

She'd been in America almost three years now, but she still wasn't used to it, the same language sure, but they had different words for everything; she'd learned that a scone was a biscuit, that sidewalk meant a pavement, and that autumn was fall.

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.