"But then I came to the conclusion that……" — Samuel P. Huntington
"But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation."
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Samuel P. Huntington
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40 Quotes by Samuel P. Huntington
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Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It…
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In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three…
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It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological…
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Collective will supplants individual whim
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Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
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Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human…
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The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western…
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These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national…
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It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to…
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best,…
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly…
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I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights…
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More Assimilation Quotes
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We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land…
— Rand Paul
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture.…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these.....We have been taught that the food that has…
— Justin Martyr
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If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can…
— Allan W. Eckert
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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
— Constantin Stanislavski
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
— William McKinley
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Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy,…
— Zack de la Rocha
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
— Jean Piaget
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The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each…
— Randolph Bourne
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Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and…
— William McKinley
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More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and…
— John Shadegg
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