114 Quotes About Assimilation

As long as there is even a single community of thinking humans who could say I am not their own, I'll consider my mission to be incomplete. I must belong to everyone, or else my life is worthless, for belonging to the whole of humanity is what makes us human.

One species, one anthem, one motto - assimilation.

It is simply impossible for "refugees" to check their Islamism at the door.

To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great, obscure mass of humanity, and forget all about its ancestors.

It makes me wonder what belonging to a place means. Charles died a Russian in Paris. Viktor called it wrong and was a Russian in Vienna for fifty years, then Austrian, then a citizen of the Reich, and then stateless. Elisabeth kept Dutch citizenship in England for fifty years. And Iggie was Austrian, then American, then an Austrian living in Japan.You assimilate, but you need somewhere else to go. You keep your passport to hand. You keep something private.

I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is one-hundred-per-cent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack.

The European immigrants who emerged from the Ford Motor Company melting pot came to the United States because they hoped to assimilate into mainstream American society. The Hmong came to the United States for the same reason they had left China in the nineteenth century: because they were trying to resist assimilation.

As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family

Culture is always on the move.