Quotes About Assimilation

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

Anytime you get traded, you are trying to figure out what freeways get you where, and where the meal room is, and where the locker room is, and you get yourself used to that.

When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

To me, America is a symbol of all different views, different types of people coming together.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American.

Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information access interferes with that.

I love going into a country and just blending.

When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket.

When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo

We honor the heritage of all who come here, no matter where they come from, because we trust in our country's genius for making us all Americans - one nation under God.

She has become part of the tribe by behaving like its members.

Learning is a lot like eating. It is not how much we eat that matters, but what really matters is how much we digest.

The chasm between French Jacobinism and British liberalism is not as wide as it seems: both are assimilatory modes of thought rooted in the Enlightenment.

Wasabi. Now hoiteys. Seriously, you'd think I really didn't know English.

Vivimos en un mundo de mezclas. El mundo transita a través de nosotros por medio de la comida, los libros, las imágenes, el resto de las personas...

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

He made all countries where he came his own.

All immigration is based on misapprehension.

Those poor bastards didn't want a rural life. They expected an urban life in a rural setting. They tried to adapt their environment instead of adapting to it.

The majority of them simply melted into the host country's underbelly. The low-income areas? If that's what you want to call them. What better place to hide than among that part of society that no one else even wants to acknowledge. How else could so many outbreaks have started in so many First World ghettos?

In America my mother has eyes as strong as boulders, never once skittering off a face, but she has not learned to place decorations and phonograph needles, nor has she stopped seeing land on the other side of the oceans. Now her eyes include the relatives in China, as they once included my father smiling and smiling in his many western outfits, a different one for each photograph that he sent from America. (1983: 59)