Integration Quotes by Norbert Elias

The heart of assimilation process of absorbing minorities lies in the self-image of a nation. There are, as you will know, big differences for…

— Norbert Elias

Debating the concept of race does not mean that I in any way regard this as a quarrel between neighbors over where they come…

— Norbert Elias

One has to give minority groups a kind of reward, an emotional reward, that it is worthwhile assimilating to this particular majority group. And…

— Norbert Elias

Perhaps one could appoint three or four professional people specially concerned with the task of bridge building between the majority and the minority. Bridge…

— Norbert Elias

The natives of England are closing their doors to relationships with Asians and Africans or, for that matter, Turks and Spaniards. While the Africans…

— Norbert Elias

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.

— Norbert Elias

Assimilation, a certain uniformity of conduct, is necessary in a multi-party state.This is not only a requirement to the established majority; it is also…

— Norbert Elias

The way one behaves and feels as a Dutchman and Dutchwoman is the result of a long development. It is by no means 'the…

— Norbert Elias

I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences…

— Norbert Elias

Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their…

— Norbert Elias

I would like to remind you that both assimilation and integration apply to the working classes in the nineteenth century, at least in Britain…

— Norbert Elias

Of course you can more easily recognise the outsiders because they have a different skin color. But let us take for instance the relationship…

— Norbert Elias