Quotes About Assimilation

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

I believe whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies.

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

We can say that one has remained [correctly] in worldly interaction if one has 'adjusted everywhere'.

Almanyadaki semitizm karsitliginin ayni zaman bir Yahudi acisindan bakildiginda da hos karsilanmasi gereken somuclari var. Bana kalirsa alman yahudileri, surekli varliklarini, semitizm karsitligina borclular... Bu ayrim olmadan Almanyadaki yahudilerin asimilasyonu cabucak ve engelsiz gerceklesirdi.

Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob. "Till

Martina had attempted to pass for Anglo, but with her dark akin and mine, she could not. Failed, she sat in silence. -Is la pocha too good for Spanish?- He used pocha the new way, to mean Mexican American, for disdain.

the process through which any concept or subject (content) is taught becomes a part of the content. (p19)

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

A continent which imports the world's peoples will also import the world's problems.

we know that we Europeans cannot become whatever we like. We cannot become Indian or Chinese, for instance. And yet we are expected to believe that anyone in the world can move to Europe and become European.

What they were claiming to criticise was 'multiculturalism' as a state-sponsored policy: the idea of the state encouraging people to live parallel lives in the same country and particularly in living under customs and laws that stood in opposition to those of the country they were living in. Rather than leading to a unified identity it led to a fracturing of identities, where instead of making society colour- or identity-blind, it suddenly made identity into everything.

When presented new information, we have no other option than to relate it to what we already know—there is no blank space in our minds within which new information can be stored so as not to "contaminate" it with existing information. —Clifford Konold, Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, University of Massachusetts

You read widely to be shaped, not so that you might be prepared to regurgitate.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein—it rejects it." —P. B. Medawar

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.