Quotes About Assimilation

Transport a German to Kiev, and he remains a perfect German," Hitler said. "But transport him to Miami, and you make a degenerate out of him."9 Late

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.

The people are more modest than Americans and Europeans. So much so that, as soon as I reached Kathmandu, I bought local clothes. Loose shirts and vests and baggy pants that gathered at the ankles and probably made me look like a giant genie.

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing.

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.

Even when I speak English to my parents, I'll say an English word differently to my Chinese parents and friends than I do to my English-speaking friends - you know, I'll pronounce 'McDonald's' differently, because it feels right, and that's what I'm used to.

Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.

They were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices called them from without, no fragments of their own thoughts came suddenly from the minds of others.

As recent immigrants, they wanted their children to speak and read English well. Miss

Primeiro estranha-se. Depois entranha-se.

The Irish Times ran an editorial in 1956, full of dark intimations that the Irish would become like other indigenous peoples who had lost out in the Darwinian struggle for survival: 'What matters is that we will disappear as a composite race. We will add our name or names to those of the races that assimilate us; but as an entity, we will cease to exist.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.

I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

I am a player who finds it easy to adapt to the circumstances, and I don't think I would have had a problem adapting to England.

I feel like I'm cultured enough to fit into any environment.

From now on, I will work with other people's material if it fits where I want to go.