Assimilation Quote by Norbert Elias

When Benjamin Disraeli spoke of the 'two nations' in Britain he was perfectly right, only the working classes were not exactly a nation. But…

— Norbert Elias

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids…

— Joel Kinnaman

Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.

— Ross Douthat

I've always believed in representation within the mainstream. Integration rather than segregation.

— Chris McCausland

“It then became obvious that ethnic differences (like class distinctions) refused to boil away. Even fairly well established groups, such as Irish-Americans, often nursed…

— James T. Patterson

If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit…

— Karl Marx

It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“This was mere unfounded prejudice--that seems obvious to me--because neither before nor after existed, nor any place to immigrate from, but there were those…

— Italo Calvino

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent…

— Jim Ratcliffe

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

— Patricia Piccinini

My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.

— Amy Jackson

Every wave of immigrants who came [to America] were treated pretty badly, but when they all finally became integrated, all of us became Anglo-Saxons.

— Noam Chomsky