Quotes About Assimilation

Instead of using technology or wearing technology constantly, we will start becoming technology.

All our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters from other tongues and cultures.

It's my fault she is this way. I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these two things do not mix?

In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English.

I think about our two faces. I think about my intentions. Which one is American? Which one is Chinese? Which one is better? If you show one, you must always sacrifice the other.

Poor service, bad treatment, no respect - that's the penalty for not speaking English well in America.

Take from the rest of us all that you can assimilate, that can become a part of you, but never still the small voice inside your head that whispers to you, I like it better my way.

It is only by continuously fixing the mind for a time on some one of the lessons of faith, that the believer is gradually helped to take and thoroughly assimilate them.

What could be more normal than to be out of place everywhere you go? What could be more American?

About a third of pre-1965 immigrants went home—except British and Jewish immigrants, less than 10 percent of whom returned.17 Now no one goes home, they go on welfare. Today's immigrants aren't coming here to breathe free, they're coming to live for free.

After Minnesota experienced a rash of Hmong gang rapes, animal sacrifices, and one child murder, as well as a particularly shocking mass slaying of Minnesota hunters, a local talk radio host suggested that the Hmong "either assimilate or hit the road." The Baltimore Sun somberly reported his "hateful words," adding with sadness that no one had ever "dared to blurt out [such sentiments] publicly.

EARLIER IMMIGRANTS WERE CHAMPS AT ASSIMILATION

Bile is not ONLY the real key to the body's ability to digest and assimilate fats, but it is also a vehicle for removing toxins from your body so they can be flushed out through the colon.

Of those which still continue in the state of aliens, and have made no approaches towards assimilation, some seem necessary to be retained, because the purchasers of the Dictionary will expect to find them. Such are many words in the common law, as capias, habeas corpus, præmunire, nisi prius: such are some terms of controversial divinity, as hypostasis; and of physick, as the names of diseases; and

ACCIPIENT  (ACCI'PIENT)   n.s.[accipiens, Lat.] A receiver, perhaps sometimes used for recipient.Dict.

It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling

He moved through our house now with the ease of someone who no longer considered himself a guest, no sidestepping knickknacks and perching on the edges of furniture but walking easily across the floors as if he belonged there.

If there's one thing I have learned it's that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange

France, they have no life at home, home is disgusting, and they need to see themselves in a French light only. This applies to somebody like Cioran or even our friend—your friend—Grielescu. They hope to turn into Frenchmen. But your wife is even more peculiar . .

Americans find it hard to believe that foreigners are unalterably foreign, for they have seen generations of immigrants who became Americans. But old cultures are impermeable and exclusive—none more so than the French.

Well, we were here, first-generation Americans, our language was English and a language is a spiritual mansion from which no one can evict us.

Die Gewalt einer Sprache ist nicht, daß sie das Fremde abweist, sondern daß sie es verschlingt.

WEIRD people (people in cultures that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic)

What could be more American, after all, than being an immigrant and then, after a few decades, fearing immigration and reacting against it?