Quotes About Assimilation

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Outnumbered, surrounded and overwhelmed, the Navajos will probably be forced in self-defense to malform themselves into the shape required by industrial econometrics. Red-skinned black men at present, they must learn to become dark-brown white men with credit cards and crew-cut sensibilities.

Piscem natare doces [You're teaching a fish to swim].

It tasted like all foreign spirits do after they've passed through Heathrow. Wrong.

Finding your feet in a new country provides an enormous boost to your confidence and independence.

You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.

As I graduated from public schools and started working in newsrooms, I told myself that I am only the 'illegal' that my own country has not bothered to get to know.

When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens.

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

I obeyed my parents' rules inside our Chinese household while I pursued my dreams in the American world outside.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

You would think that growing up in a foreign country would be so easy and fitting in would be a piece of cake, and although my parents were completely liberal and allowed us the opportunity to explore this world, I always felt as though I was searching for people that were more like me.

I just want to say that 'Minari' is about a family. It's a family trying to learn how to speak a language of its own. It goes deeper than any American language and any foreign language.

I always feel like a foreigner in America.

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

People don't know what it's like being the foreigner until they are one.

I never expected to adapt so quickly, but if you are a foreigner it's up to you to adapt to English football because you can't change it. I think I've achieved something in the way I adapted.

It takes time to settle in and learn a new formation and style of play.

I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.