Quotes About Assimilation

I remember, when I arrived in England, a lot of people said that my style of play was not for England.

I always think like I was born in the country where everybody ate apples. Then I ended up in the country where everybody eats bananas. So now, I eat bananas so long, I'm just remembering the apples.

I think it's important to be reminded that that's what this country is comprised of - people from other countries.

Growing up where I was, there were no Asians, no minorities, and there was always something to remind me of what I'm not. And when I go to Korea it's the same thing. I'm constantly reminded that I'm not Korean.

Because growing up as an Asian-American and growing up as someone who is not white, oftentimes in this country you can feel as though you're a foreigner, or you're reminded of being a foreigner, even though you're not. Even though inside, internally, you feel completely American.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.

New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

I just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

I'm a first-generation kid in this country. I so identify with America and its culture. I'm a citizen, I was born here. I'm American. At the same time, like most first-generation kids, I have this other identity to another country back home, which is India.

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

My family was one of the few South Asian families in my community in Illinois. Growing up in the '80s, I remember going to the K-Mart with my mom, when she was wearing her sari, and she'd get made fun of. People would ask my mother, 'Were you born with that dot on your head?'

American literature has always been immigrant.

I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.

We just need more complex, important roles that tell our experiences as an immigrant; as someone with an accent, but also American; but also someone who's second or third-generation American, born and raised here who actually don't speak any language other than English.

In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.'

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

We are an immigrant nation.

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.

When you are in America, at least for me, as an immigrant, I try to be as Americanized as I could. I just want to be an actor, I don't just want to be an Asian actor necessarily.