Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
“Assimilation was frequently but another name for the very special brand of relations between human beings which had been imposed by colonialism.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how… — Donald Curtis Copy Share Image
... a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
Jewish communities in the diaspora are very important to Israel and we are open to a dialogue with them. It is bitter… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
“It makes me wonder what belonging to a place means. Charles died a Russian in Paris. Viktor called it wrong and was… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Assimilation, a certain uniformity of conduct, is necessary in a multi-party state.This is not only a requirement to the established majority; it… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The heart of assimilation process of absorbing minorities lies in the self-image of a nation. There are, as you will know, big… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
“...and they absorb the world shaped by these, "constructing" their thoughts, feelings, words, actions, identity, and beliefs accordingly. Which means they will… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
