Quotes About Assimilation

BaÅŸka kültürlerden âdet alma bir olgudur; ama al?nan, sebeplerin tamam?n? beraberinde getirmez. Ä°thal edilen al??kanl?k özümsenmez, daha ziyade katalizör rolü oynar; yani sadece varl???yla, ikinci ortamda olas? hâlde zaten mevcut olan benzer bir al??kanl???n tezahürüne yol açar.

Siempre es más sencillo parecerse a los demás.

Zora Neale Hurston's "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

This is the question that nags me. National mourning, as advocated by Black Lives Matter, is a mode of intervention and interruption that might itself be assimilated into the category of public annoyance. This is altogether possible; but also possible is the recognition that it's a lack of feeling for another that is our problem. Grief, then, for these deceased others might align some of us, for the first time, with the living.

Native peoples imbibed all of the vices of U.S. citizens, they claimed, while slaves absorbed their virtues.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

There is nothing in this world, incredible though it may seem, to which the human body and with it the human soul cannot in time learn to adapt itself.

oscillating among the different possibilities allows us time to come to new and different ways of integrating who we were then with who we are now and who we are becoming. When this self-exploration and self-testing ends prematurely—either because we are not able to tolerate the contradictions or because we are unable to assimilate new information about ourselves—we risk either letting go of the past too rapidly or holding on to it too rigidly.

To him, English was still a mudslide of runny, slushy sounds that did not exist in his mother tongue—r, th, sh, and some particularly gelatinous vowels. Frawder thur prueless rare shur per thurst. Mirtler freckling thow. Gold freys yawder far cration. Crewl fry rackler friend thur. No shemling keal rearand for fear under shall an frick. Folger rich shermane furl hearst when pearsh thurlow larshes your morse claws. Clushes ream glown roven thurm shalter shirt.

Amerika is wie Föhn, je länger man da ist, um so schlimmer wird's.

You've had to turn yourself into something else, and you've done it. Sometimes, when I look at you, I'm not sure if you'd even know how to be human anymore.

From a young age, he had to learn to survive, and to shape-shift into whatever pleased the people he was around.

Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

Mon livre, pour exister, avait mangé d'autres livres.

We still spoke Korean at home, but on the streets we always had to speak Japanese.

and only by assimilating into their community would they succeed.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

Immigrants have to adopt our values, not the other way around.

A proud and healthy society does not equivocate when it comes to stating clearly and unequivocally what it expects of its prospective immigrants. It is for immigrants to adapt to the host nation's values and never the other way around.

I would say, 'It's not very fa-her to the ca-her.' They would say, 'It's not very far to the car.' I just didn't hear it and it took me forever, but I finally did learn the variations in my tongue and how to make an American sound, and I feel confident with it now.

More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation.

A full body veil is hindering integration.

When I was young we weren't even allowed to speak our own languages in school. They called it 'vernacular,' as if only English was the real tongue.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.