Quotes About Assimilation

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

Everybody in life is a chameleon.

I was born in Paris. My parents came here from Tunisia when they were kids, but we're still foreigners. Arabs. Africans. Rabble. Scum. We're what's wrong with this country and we always will be.

Blend in. don't make waves. Don't look up.' That was the mantra I lived by. But not today.

For even sheep do not vomit up their grass and show to the shepherds how much they have eaten; but when they have internally digested the pasture, they produce externally wool and milk. Do you also show not your theorems to the uninstructed, but show the acts which come from their digestion.

why act the part of a Jew when you're Greek? [ 20] Don't you know why it is that a person is called a Jew, Syrian, or Egyptian? And when we see someone hesitating between two creeds, we're accustomed to say, 'He is no Jew, but is merely acting the part.' But when he assumes the frame of mind of one who has been baptized * and has made his choice, then he really is a Jew, and is called by that name.

Le rêve secret de la plupart des migrants, c'est qu'on les prenne pour des enfants du pays.

C'est que l'Occident ne veut pas qu'on lui ressemble, il veut seulement qu'on lui obéisse.

All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian sensibility, which demands infinite versions of Indian food, and is unmoved by difference.

You say your city the way some Americans say this is their country. You never feel right saying that - my country. For some reason looking Mexican means you can't be American.

en otros términos, quien dice ingestión dice asimilación. En palabras de Meister Eckhart: «el alma se une con Dios como el alimento con el hombre, que así se vuelve ojo en el ojo, oído en el oído; así en Dios el alma deviene Dios»; pues «yo soy lo que me absorbe más que yo mismo».

I yearned for home as a drunk man for whisky. For only there could I be sure that someone looking on my face for the first time would regard it without reaction. No gapes, no gawps, no cussing, no looking quickly away as if seeing something unsavoury. Just a meeting as unremarkable as passing your mummy in the kitchen. What a thing was this to wish for. That a person regarding me should think nothing. What a forlorn desire to seek indifference.

the course of the following decades, as Germans increasingly came to view themselves as potential victims of America's insatiable drive for capitalist growth, prey to all the negative consequences of modernization, they began to identify with North American Indians and their fate.

This new fight was for the heart and soul of America against the tide of racially degenerate immigrants who sought to dilute her Anglo-Saxon bloodlines and undermine her Christian identity with their Roman Catholic conspiracies.

Like a horrible nightmare, the abrogation of equal rights weighs upon us all, but especially upon those Jews who, like me, had surrendered themselves to the dream of assimilation.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.

My accent's become a weird hybrid.

I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be, 'Oh, look at that guy;' I wanted to be part of the crowd. Which is a weird thing, because the more successful I got, the more out of the crowd I became.

Australia has embraced migrants from all different races, making us one of the most multiracial nations on earth. Most have assimilated and are proud to call themselves Australians, accepting our culture, beliefs and laws. I welcome them from the bottom of my heart. As they integrate and assimilate, the disruption caused by diversity diminishes.