Quotes About Assimilation

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. —John von Neumann

Consequently, no matter how they try, immigrants cannot prevent their children from becoming cultural products of the adopted country. Through their efforts at preservation, they can only accentuate the gap between the two cultures and prevent harmonization.

Integrating is easier when you have a job in Canada.

I'd always felt like a Canadian living in the U.S.

I always feel as though I'm not quite Canadian enough for everybody.

A person that wants to come to our country must share our Canadian values.

I can kind of be a chameleon.

I'm a chameleon.

If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or Chinese ways of thinking. He's always been much more attracted to American ways of thinking. He feels Americans are more open - they tell you what they think - and he's very much that way himself.

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

Who does get to claim Americanness? You know, my brother was born in this country. And is he seen as American? So, I mean, it brings up a lot of interesting questions.

No matter what nationalities became a part of our country in the future, they would have to assimilate into the Han nationality. The nationalism our party supports is a positive nationalism. Do not forget that.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

Even I'm a bit surprised with how easily I've adapted to European football.

I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I had a lot of work to do to try to begin to understand this enormous and complex country that I thought would be an easy process.

When I came to America, I had some surprises at first, but I could soon adjust.

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

Indeed, everything that is currently being said about America's diverse Muslim population—that they are foreign and exotic and un-American—was said about Catholic and Jewish immigrants nearly a century ago.