Quotes About Assimilation

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.

I had to go step by step to get used to the training and to the system of Pep Guardiola.

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

I have fitted perfectly in the team and in the team's style of play.

Very rarely can you bring someone new into a band and have them just fit perfectly, right away.

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

People come to this country because they view our culture as the best. It is a culture free of persecution, a culture free of oppressive government, and above all... a culture of really, really cool stuff.

I was Persian-American, but I hated bringing Persian food to school. I just didn't want to stand out in that way. I wanted to be like everybody else.

You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

Kowé kira, kalo sudah pake pakean Eropa, bersama orang Eropa, bisa sedikit bicara Belanda lantas jadi Eropa? Tetap monyet!

Banyak Pribumi yang mengimpi jadi Belanda, dan gadis yang lebih banyak bertampang Eropa ini lebih suka mengaku Pribumi.

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

It is no longer possible to be exotic.

By the time the last Americans had vanished into thin Englishmen I was nearly forty.

It is in the nature of a hypothesis when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates everything to itself, as proper nourishment, and from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows stronger by everything you sec, hear or understand.

And he was more Irish in America than he'd ever been at home.

He spoke a refined and formal kind of English that did not seem wholly natural, as though at some point it had been applied to him carefully with a brush, like paint. I asked him what his nationality was. 'I was sent to an English boarding school at the age of seven,' he replied. 'You might say I have the mannerisms of an Englishman but the heart of a Greek. I am told,' he added, 'it would be much worse the other way around.

I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen's English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard.