Assimilation Quote by Harry Hay

Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information…

— Mark Krikorian

“Does assimilation mean that they never came up against naked prejudice? Does it mean that you understood where the limits of your social world…

— Edmund de Waal

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.

— Bobby Jindal

When you're the foreigner and your kids are the natives, they realize you're clueless much sooner than they ordinarily would. I'm pretty sure mine…

— Pamela Druckerman

As an immigrant, you're constantly thinking about how you're perceived on a community level, and a lot of times it's just on a community…

— Himanshu Suri

“When an immigrant speaks of feeling uncomfortable just know, you are in the presence of man who knows what the sting of assimilation is.”

— Hannah V. Sawyerr

“As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family”

— Miguel Syjuco

“assimilationists constantly encourage Black adoption of White cultural traits and/or physical ideals.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

My family brought me up to be very assimilated and accepting of everyone. But I do get frustrated when I see other Asians who…

— Pearl Tan

We have a huge immigration population in Sweden, but when I was younger, I grew up in a small town and, at one point,…

— Snoh Aalegra

Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might say something,…

— Viggo Mortensen

I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different. I really…

— Corinne Bailey Rae