Quotes About Assimilation

When the Corps of Discovery dropped anchor at a Mandan village in 1804, they were met by blond-haired, blue-eyed Mandans—the offspring of native women and French explorers or trappers. On

I'd feel equaly out of place anywhere

New England later attracted large numbers of Catholic Irish, Italians, Jews, Armenians, and others. Each of these many ethnic groups cherished its own heritage. At the same time, they also became New Englanders. They lived in Yankee houses, grew accustomed to town meetings, began to talk like Yankees, and learned to play by Yankee rules.

Alexander Hamilton, a native West Indian, naturalized New Yorker and extreme nationalist who had no roots in any regional culture.

As a result, Italians who today bear illustrious noble names are not necessarily the progeny of nobility but may be instead the descendants of poor Jews who sought a new life by passing through the doors of the Catechumens. Of

The child was born in the Arab world, and in that sense, Roger and Alice had gone into the land itself, been penetrated by it, bled into its veins (p. 349).

The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

My sister married a German. He complained he couldn't get a good bagel back home. I said: 'Well, whose fault is that?'

The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.

I think immigration has been one of the vital things about the growth of America. I'm the product of grandparents who all immigrated from Greece. I hope eventually we have proper immigration.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive things.