Quotes About Assimilation

Every player needs a little time to adjust to new teammates and the mentality of the coach when you change clubs.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Chameleons usually don't draw much of a crowd or get many ovations. By

Learning, like oxygen, is something imbibed from the atmosphere about one.

America's original sin was not the exclusion of people born outside the nation's borders from citizenship. It was the exclusion of many people who had lived here even before the start of the Republic—in particular, Native Americans and African Americans. For most of its existence, America found it relatively easy to assimilate foreigners, although there were periods of sharp and even violent tension.

The goal of the actor is to internalize, to assimilate, and to integrate the accent so that it becomes simply the character's natural individual way of speaking. When

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.

Understand: when you enter a new environment, your task is to learn and absorb as much as possible.

The trick is simple: You simply blend in with those around you. The better you blend, the less suspicious you become.

When you go into society, leave behind your own ideas and values, and put on the mask that is most appropriate for the group in which you find yourself.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

Light, how the horror of yesterday became merely the uneasiness of today, once you grew accustomed.

They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American.

It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

Savages are dangerous neighbours and unprofitable customers, and if they remain as degraded denizens of our colonies, they become a burden upon the State.

Sejal had not often thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish.

There were all manners of souvenirs and trinkets for sale when Ciro and Luigi disembarked from the ferry into the port of lower Manhattan. Signs advertising Sherman Turner cigars, Zilita Black tobacco, and Roisin's Doughnuts graced rolling carts selling Sally Dally Notions and Flowers by Yvonne Benne. The stands competed for the immigrant business. Ciro and Luigi came face to face with the engine of American life: You work, and then you spend.

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living. —The Physiology of Taste, Brillat-Savarin