Quotes About Assimilation

I act like a native in North America. I eat sliders in Detroit.

I grew up in Northern California - Marin County, Tiburon. And it's interesting. It's a very rich place, but a lot of the affluent people are - they're not as showy. So, like, they might have, like, a Saab or a Volvo. And then here comes my dad from Iran. He buys a Rolls-Royce.

I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture.

I dream in Norwegian, I count in Norwegian so that basically makes me Norwegian now, I suppose.

I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

I believe that we do our country a disservice when we make it harder for new American immigrants to abide by the rules of the road and obtain drivers licenses.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact with.

no creo que podamos vivir sin imitar a otros, sin querer ser otros.

whenever I sense the absence of Western eyes, I become my own Westerner.

But as nothing, western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to westernize amounted mostly to the erasure of the past; the effect on culture was reductive and stunting, leading families like mine, otherwise glad of republican progress, to furnish their houses like museums.

Oh, people get used to so many things, said Vadesh, if only they give them selves a chance.

You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing it is yours.

She read in a high African singsong that I guess came down along the line from Ghana long ago, something that she made American, but tied us to a home we'd never seen.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. Probably the best way is to be from Mars.

These old people I talk to, if you could of told em that there would be people on the streets of our Texas towns with green hair and bones in their noses speakin a language they couldnt even understand, well, they just flat out wouldnt of believed you. But what if you'd of told em it was their own grandchildren?

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it.