Quote by Michael Wolff

“Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but…

— Aijaz Ahmad

“We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.”

— Jon Ronson

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege…

— Eric Liu

Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration.

— Noah Feldman

It's very contrary to the notion of what America is to imagine that we can stop migration.

— Mohsin Hamid

There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each…

— Rick Perlstein

“Nothing is more striking to an European traveller in the United States than the absence of what we term the Government, or the Administration.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is up to us to push for a transformation in political culture in which the basic human dignity of migrants is unequivocally respected.

— Ash Sarkar

When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.

— Ross Douthat

Those who do not put clear limits on migration will soon start to feel like strangers in their own land.

— Sebastian Kurz

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.

— James Howard Kunstler

The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a…

— Ai Weiwei