Quotes About Assimilation

Asian-Americans, we're not a monolithic group. There might be some Asians who are second-generation, third-generation, who may not speak the language that their parents or their grandparents spoke.

I spoke English when I moved to the U.S.A. but I had an accent. To get rid of it, I watched a lot of TV-shows and tried to repeat after the tv-hosts. I liked shows about hip-hop.

My grandparents were born in England but spoke German and had a German name.

Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken by my relatives all my life, especially when they didn't want me to understand what they were talking about.

I don't really consider myself an immigrant, because I was born French; I have always spoken the language. I never had the feeling of being a foreigner. I was very lucky: I came to France, and I had enough money to study and to rent a studio. So, for me, it was not difficult.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

We must kill the savage to save the man.

You could get used to anything. You got used to it and then time raced by, and before you knew it, time was up. He

This was a bit like running into a clan of kilted Scotsmen in the middle of the Sahara Desert.

She wasn't any more familiar with boutique shopping in Bombay or the challenges of dating someone in the movie industry, but she knew what it was to feel that you would never become fully adult in the country where you lived, would never understand the jokes or master the graces that came so naturally to everyone around you.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

I only like playing people who are completely different from me. I try to mould myself into that character.

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in.

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

The first rule of multiculturalism is that you can't talk about multiculturalism.

Extreme multiculturalism... is not the way to build this country.

When you bring multiple cultures together, there's a degree of push and pull.