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- Nov 07, 2020
Assimilated Quotes
Reflections on absorbing a new culture without losing your own.
Assimilation appears here in very different lights: a child of Russian immigrants who embraced American society wholeheartedly, an education described as the thing that truly assimilates a person into their culture, and a sharper warning about being absorbed into a mindset that erases individuality. The topic pairs well with our Culture quotes page.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Australia has embraced migrants from all different races, making us one of the most multiracial nations on earth. Most have assimilated and are proud to call themselves Australians, accepting our culture, beliefs and laws. I welcome them from the bottom of my heart. As they integrate and assimilate, the disruption caused by diversity diminishes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminists are like the Borg from 'Star Trek.' They don't know anything about other groups beyond the fact that they need to be assimilated into a hivemind that mindlessly follows the orders of a Queen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were attached to Russian culture by a thousand ineradicable ties. But they did not cut me off from American society, nor could they have. I assimilated wholeheartedly, found my parents in many ways embarrassing, and allowed my Russian to decline through neglect.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
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- Nov 07, 2020