Quotes About Assimilation

America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.

My parents are immigrants to this country. They came to this country for a better opportunity just like everyone else.

America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.

Successful immigrants assimilate or become bi-cultural.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'

We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.

If you allow immigrants into your country, then you're responsible for them.

My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.

We're a nation of immigrants.

America is a country of immigrants. It's what makes America unique.

That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

My parents were first-generation immigrants. My mum wore a sari but at school and as a teenager and in my 20s I wanted to fit in.

We are a nation of immigrants.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

Immigration is important. We're a nation of immigrants.

We believe in immigration, but we don't believe in mass immigration.

Actually, until a few years ago, my English was very poor. I wasn't thinking of my American roots at all, until I went to play in an American youth team. From that moment, my English improved, and I started to feel more American.

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

Just being able to incorporate other sports into my game has definitely helped me out.

India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.

No one is India.

Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, 'Man - I am American.'