Quotes About Assimilation

How deeply did American Jews internalize the notion that America was their new national home? A fascinating indication is a 1904 stained-glass window of Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, which depicts a classic biblical scene: Moses descending from a mountain holding the Ten Commandments. What is remarkable about this artwork, however, is that it shows Moses descending, not from Mount Sinai, as in the Bible's account, but from Yosemite's El Capitan.

I'm telling you I was from such a small village I didn't even know what wrestling was until I came to America.

My parents are super westernized. My mom listens to western music, my dad was like a pub landlord so he properly embraced English life. But the truth is they both came from tiny villages in Sri Lanka.

When you experience playing in two different leagues, you learn to adapt; you pick up elements from the best virtues of each culture.

We don't sign here, of course. We want to prepare these children to enter the normal world." She believed that.

Everyone in America is a European—or the descendant of a European. We become Americans when we leave behind us all the ancient prejudices and manners of the Old World and when we accept new ones from the way of life in the New World. Here, individuals of all nations are melted into one race of man.

I know what it feels like not to fit in, but trying to be like everyone around you doesn't work.

You learn how they live their lives, and you speak their language well enough to blend in with them. But how many white people you know who go out of their way to see Tyler Perry movies so they can learn how to act around Black people?

incorporated what he chose

ByÅ'em zawsze wyró?niajÄ…cym siÄ™ nikim, którego bezwzglÄ™dnym ?yczeniem byÅ'o sta? siÄ™ niewyró?niajÄ…cym siÄ™ kimÅ›.

Adapt to them—don't expect them to adapt to you.

Here she barked out her greetings in Italian, anxious to disassociate herself from the horseless American cowboys and above all from her own kind, the truly lost and unwanted, who move like leaves around the edges of the world, gathering only long enough to wait in line and see if there is any mail

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Maybe sometimes it can take a player a bit longer to get comfortable and to get to know everyone and exactly what he needs to do.

When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

When someone new takes over a role, the company doesn't change anything from the script, but they do lay it all out there and let people take from it what they take from it.

Certain stories, like my mom leaving when I was 15-years-old to go back to China because she didn't quite assimilate like we did, that was a moment that was very sad in my life.

I think I've started to dream in American a little bit.

For me, it took a little time to understand the nitty-gritties of Lucknow.

I have adapted well in Liverpool.

I'm a player coming into Manchester United, I've got to adapt like every other, no matter how old I am.

I moved from Australia to Manhattan five years ago and realized I was very well-accepted in the South Asian industry there.