- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Assimilate Quotes
Quotes on identity, culture, and what it means to assimilate.
These quotes look at assimilation from a few directions, including one describing how people come to America, assimilate, and take on the full rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as possible, to the point of bleaching her hair blonde.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.
- Gossip
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.
- Destitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other way to assimilate legally, you can't ever put in something that says, 'You can never become a citizen.' That's un-American.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being white, and I think it's something to be very proud of. I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that were desperately trying to assimilate into America. They were having a hard time because they were Jewish. They wanted to get in to mainstream publishing but they couldn't. That's why they, and a lot of Jewish guys, went into comic books.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020