Quotes About Assimilation

It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.

in the world is the spectacle of the whites busy escaping blackness and becoming blacker every day, and the blacks striving toward whiteness, becoming quite dull and gray. None of us seems to know who he is or where he's going.

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

Meantime nature is not slow to equip us in the prison uniform of the party to which we adhere. We come to wear one cut of face and figure, and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression.

We as we read must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner, must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke. And from the rockets ran men with hammers in their hands to beat the strange world into a shape that was familiar to the eye, to bludgeon away all the strangeness, their mouths fringed with nails so

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

And Mrs Verloc, in her varied experience, had come to the conclusion that some foreigners could speak better English than the natives.

my generation's screwed—we're not the immigrant experience, we're not the assimilation experience—we're the first nothing generation, we've got nothing to write about and no one to read it, everyone too busy getting technologized, too harried with degrees.

Clearly, boxing's very image is repulsive to many people because it cannot be assimilated into what we wish to know about civilized man. In a technological society possessed of incalculably refined methods of mass destruction (consider how many times over the United States and the Soviet Union have vaporized each other in fantasy) boxing's display of direct unmitigated and seemingly natural aggression is too explicit to be tolerated.

As ethnic groups struggle to be a part of the mainstream, they are often forced to make a place for themselves by serving the interests of the state.

Their motto must be "Whiter and whiter every generation," until the grandchildren of the blue veins could easily go over into the white race and become assimilated so that problems of race would plague them no more.

If tolerance poses as a middle road between rejection on the one side and assimilation on the other, this road, as already suggested, is paved by necessity rather than virtue; tolerance, as Nietzsche would say, becomes a virtue only retroactively and retrospectively.

A política exterminacionista, inicialmente, tinha a ver com o extermínio dos indígenas por considerá-los um empecilho para a exploração colonial. Em seguida, foi gestada a política assimilacionista, com a clara intenção de fazer as diferenças desaparecerem como em um passe de mágica, desejando que os indígenas fossem assimilados pela cultura europeia.

Por causa disso tudo é que decidi, quando estava com 9 anos de idade, que, ao me tornar adulto, não seria índio, e sim um ser humano civilizado, capacitado para contribuir com o meu país. O que eu não sabia, no entanto, é que ser índio era algo que estava inscrito dentro de mim; não bastava dizer palavras mágicas para isso desaparecer.

The Europeans thought they could take in millions of immigrants from the poorest regions of the Muslim world and turn them into good little social democrats in a single generation. And look at the results. For the most part the Muslims of Europe are ghettoized and seething with anger.

When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap.

I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this "condition" affected the way I walked, talked, dressed, danced, and at its most advanced stage, the way I looked at the world and at other people.

Trapped! He was one of them now. He'd shaken hands. He had given his word.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a Wolf" – Nikita Khrushchev

There are many different ways of teaching languages. The Ottomans rounded up youngsters in conquered lands and brought them back as slaves to be trained as dil oglan, or "language boys," in Istanbul. Modern direct methods are gentler but rely on the same understanding of how languages are best learned—through total immersion in a bain linguistique, a kind of baptism of the brain.

Stupid gringos, Pico says. Letting Indians tell them what to call them in English. The gringos say "Mexican," not "Mexicano," right? They say "Spanish," not "Español," don't they? So why let the Indians tell them to call them Toohohoo Odohoo or whatever the fuck instead of Papago.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...

After the initial shock, nothing was strange anymore. Anything could become normal.