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.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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...
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An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
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.
Beyond Quotes
In Europe, you have very different situation than you do in the United States. In Europe, it's very segregated. And you have the diasporas in Belgium that I saw. And they're being radicalized because they're not assimilated with the culture....
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...
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.
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...
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.
Communication Quotes
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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Another quote turns to Europe's more segregated diasporas, showing assimilation isn't guaranteed just because people share a country. For related perspectives, see our Beyond quotes and Convey quotes collections.
