Quotes About Assimilation

With each individual, everybody takes instructions in a different way.

If migrants from other cultures arrive too fast and in numbers too great for society to absorb and integrate them, they begin to impose those cultures on the host country.

I'm the only one who is saying, 'Let's take fewer immigrants.' We want people to integrate, we don't want ghettos in Canada.

Integration is a give and take.

I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my accent at all.

The moment one learns English, complications set in.

Activities once unintelligible (like willingly eating bran muffins) would become common. In

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

Despite a few exceptions, I have found that Americans are now far more willing to learn new names, just as they're far more willing to try new ethnic foods... It's like adding a few new spices to the kitchen pantry.

When I announced to my family that I wanted to add an American name, they reacted with their usual laughter. Never one to let mockery or good judgment stand in my way, I proceeded to ask for suggestions. My father suggested "Fifi." Had I had a special affinity for French poodles or been considering a career in prostitution, I would've

Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.

Existence, faculties, assimilation—in other words, personality, liberty, property—this is man.

What strange beasts people are , she thought. We adjust to everything so quickly. Perhaps we would even get used to Hell.

We were given one country and we've set up in another.

The kind of people who spoke mostly Yiddish, which is a combination of German and phlegm. This is a language of coughing and spitting; until I was eleven, I wore a raincoat.

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Becoming one with his physical environment was as natural a part of an Indian child's education as learning to read and write was to an American boy back east.

If history proves two things, one is that the avant-garde almost always gets assimilated, and two, young people get older.

Some people unpack when they first arrive in a city. Me, I look for Chinatown.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man's clothes, eats the white man's food, speaks the white man's language, and professes the white man's religion.

but no white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man's clothes, eats the white man's food, speaks the white man's language, and professes the white man's religion.

We are the Borg lower your shields and surrender your weapons!

Be so kind as not to Frenchify. It really is a stupid habit to stick half of a French phrase into Russian speech," Zurov said irritably, glancing around at the speaker, although he himself interpolated French expressions now and again.