Culture Quote by Rupi Kaur

“Immigrant parents, when they first move to North America, push towards whiteness, towards assimilation, to survive and thrive. Naturally, their children do too for…

— Scaachi Koul

I know certainly that my parents sacrificed a lot to come to America, and to... start a new life for their family and their…

— Jonny Kim

America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one…

— Dylan Moran

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

— Margaret Mead

When you're an immigrant family, the upbringing, the mentality and the opportunities are all different.

— Kelvin Gastelum

“It's a success story," said Chanu, exercising his shoulders. "But behind every story of immigration success there lies a deeper tragedy." Kindly explain this…

— Monica Ali

There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something…

— Junot Diaz

When people go to a new country, whether as refugees or immigrants, kids usually assimilate easily, but it's much harder for the grownups. Especially,…

— Firoozeh Dumas

My parents were migrants and I experienced first hand the challenges they had to overcome. If they hadn't decided to seek a better life…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

All across this country, undocumented immigrants are living in fear of seeing their families torn apart because of our broken immigration system. Many of…

— Jan Schakowsky

There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of things they…

— Anchee Min

If migrants from other cultures arrive too fast and in numbers too great for society to absorb and integrate them, they begin to impose…

— Peter Hitchens