Quotes About Assimilation

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

Can it beI am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentucky,looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?

I'd get it wrong anyway; everyone who hasn't lived there thirty years or more gets accused of getting it wrong)

He would, in essence, be the person that he was assigned to embody as his cover—and he'd enjoy it. That was the trick, finding the pleasure in it.

Eu já me estou a desmulatar. (...) Eu estou é a ficar branco de língua, deve ser porque só falo português....

Joining a new company is akin to an organ transplant—and you're the new organ. If you're not thoughtful in adapting to the new situation, you could end up being attacked by the organizational immune system and rejected.

Joining a new company is akin to an organ transplant—and you're the new organ.

Joining a new company is akin to an organ transplant—and you're the new organ. If you're not thoughtful in adapting to the new situation, you could end up being attacked by the organizational immune system and rejected. Witness David's challenges at Energix.

it is essential to figure out what you need to know about your new organization and then to learn it as rapidly as you can. The more efficiently and effectively you learn, the more quickly you will close your window of vulnerability.

Leaders who are onboarding into new organizations must therefore focus on learning and adapting to the new culture.

Around us she didn't bother with English at all, and in Indian her words poured like thick whiskey that had never seen water, like hootch straight from the barrel.

Yes, yes, I know many of you are proud to be Irish, or Italian, or Polish, or Jewish. And those ethnic groups are as real as any other groups with identifiable cultures, languages, and histories. But when your ancestors got to America, they endured a profound makeover. All of your polkas, or pubs, or pizzas, and more got tossed into a crucible of race where European ethnicities got pulverized into whiteness.

Lawrence: A man who gives himself to the possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life. In my case my effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of my English self, and let me look at the West and its conventions with new eyes, and destroyed it all for me. At the same time I could not sincerely take on the Arab skin: it was an affectation only.

Despite the fact that he was a sixty-one year old man when he was naturalized as an American citizen, it's amazing how fully he's been appropriated by this country.

My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine ' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Assimilating the style of predecessors is necessary before one can develop one's own. Only by immersing oneself in the domain can one find out whether there is room left for contributing creatively to it, and whether one is capable of doing so.

In order to survive, cultures must eliminate most of the new ideas their members produce. Cultures are conservative, and for good reason. No culture could assimilate all the novelty people produce without dissolving into chaos.

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.

Skiing was for Canadians. Tobogganing was for us immigrants.

It has been said ever since that the Brankoviches of Erdély count in Tzintzar, lie in Walachian, are silent in Greek, sing hymns in Russian, are cleverest in Turkish and speak their mother tongue --Serbian-- only when they intend to kill.

They do not hire Koreans or Chinese, but that will not matter to you since you are Japanese.' Bingo nodded several times. 'Soo desu,' Noa agreed (Lee 334).

Japan will never change. It will never ever integrate gaijin...But it's not just you. Japan will never take people like my mother back into society again; it will never take back people like me. And we're Japanese