Quotes About Assimilation

Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.

Have you ever heard of Irish, Poles, Germans, Italians and Jews being integrated? They go anywhere and just enjoy their rights. Why call it integration when black folks do the same thing? It's a con job.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as possible, to the point of bleaching her hair blonde.

As the Chinese girl, you don't fit in with anybody. It wasn't a large Chinese-American population, so I didn't grow up having a community of Asian friends. Even when there were Asian people, we sort of existed on our own.

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

There is this myth, that America is a melting pot, but what happens in assimilation is that we end up deliberately choosing the American things - hot dogs and apple pie - and ignoring the Chinese offerings.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

I moved to London, and it's a cliche to say that London is a melting pot, but it's true - I didn't stand out anymore.

Paris was a melting pot.

My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person.

Britain is just a melting pot for every culture. Like a pot for every culture around the world mixed into one. Artists over here understand that more.

New York is like a melting pot: so many different people, so many different cultures.

England really is at the forefront of being a melting pot of all cultures.

America is a melting pot. Our diversity is our strength.

The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

When you're Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that.

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not convincing as an American.

Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.

I lived in L.A. for four years, and basically, every corner you go to, or in a restaurant, you can't even find people from the same background.

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?