{"quotes":[{"text":"The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgement go, is completely neutral. It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases. But the moment the patient begins to assimilate contents that were previously unconscious, its danger diminishes. The dissociation of personality, the anxious division of the day-time and the night-time sides of the psyche, cease with progressive assimilation.","author":"C.G. Jung","tags":["assimilation","conscious","duality","healing","polarity","psychology","unconscious"],"id":86727,"author_id":"C.G.+Jung"},{"text":"Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.","author":"Lorin Morgan-Richards","tags":["assimilation","be-heard","social-media","voice","you-are-powerful","you-are-special","you-are-unique","you-have-something-to-say"],"id":99717,"author_id":"Lorin+Morgan-Richards"},{"text":"If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["alter","alter-personalities","assimilate","assimilation","bad-friends","bad-friendship","bangambiki","beware-of-unfriendly-friends","brain-programming","brain-washing","brainwashing-brainwashing","catechize","condition","conditioning","conditioning","conquer","conquer","conquering","conqueror","conquers","convince","educate","enemies","enemies-and-friends","enemies-and-opposition","enemies-and-tolerance","enemies-to-lovers","enemies-trap","enemy","enemy-of-the-state","enemy","enemy","foe","friend","friends","friendship","indoctrinate","indoctrinated","indoctrination","mass-control","mass-programming","mind-control","mind-control-programming","mind-control","mind-game","mind-games","mind-programming","pearls-of-eternity","programming","programming","programming-your-mind","propaganda","propaganda","proselytize","proselytizers","proselytizing","robot","robot-programming","robots","self-destruction","self-destructive-behavior","self-destructive","thought-control","thought-control","war","war","warfare","warfare"],"id":113997,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.","author":"Norman Manea","tags":["alien","alienation","assimilation","civics","emigration","estrangement","immigration","society"],"id":115873,"author_id":"Norman+Manea"},{"text":"The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a new nation literally out of any old nation that comes along. In a word, what is unique is not America but what is called Americanisation. We understand nothing till we understand the amazing ambition to Americanise the Kamskatkan and the Hairy Ainu. We are not trying to Anglicise thousand of French cooks or Italian organ-grinders. France is not trying to Gallicise thousands of English trippers or German prisoners of war. America is the only place in the world where this process, healthy or unhealthy, possible or impossible, is going on. And the process, as I have pointed out, is not internationalization. It would be truer to say it is the nationalization of the internationalized. It is making a home out of vagabonds and a nation out of exiles.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["america","assimilation"],"id":240498,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"Education is a change of mind, an acceptance, and an assimilation.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["acceptance","assimilation","change-of-mind","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","education","inspirational","philosophy","quotes"],"id":244854,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The ability to walk this line – to adjust to the demands of different environments and modalities – is one of human cognition's most astonishing traits. Artificial intelligence has yet to come anywhere close.","author":"Eli Pariser","tags":["assimilation","critical-thinking","filtering","thinking"],"id":248196,"author_id":"Eli+Pariser"},{"text":"Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.","author":"Laura Esquivel","tags":["assimilation","exclusion","immigration","judgement","punishment","slavery"],"id":249725,"author_id":"Laura+Esquivel"},{"text":"Canadian official multiculturalism has developed through the 1970s and '80s, and has become in the '90s a major part of Canadian political discourse in Canada rather than in the United States, which is also a multi-ethnic country, may be due to the lack of an assimilationist discourse so pervasive in the U.S. The melting pot thesis has not been popular in Canada, where the notion of a social and cultural mosaic has had a greater influence among liberal critics. This mosaic approach has not been compensated with an integrative politics of antiracism or of class struggle which is sensitive to the racialization involved in Canadian class formation. The organized labour movement in Canada has repeatedly displayed anti-immigrant sentiments. For any inspiration for an antiracist theorization and practice of class struggle Canadians have looked to the United States or the Caribbean.","author":"Himani Bannerji","tags":["assimilation","canada","multiculturalism","race","racialization","u-s"],"id":349029,"author_id":"Himani+Bannerji"},{"text":"I realised with a prickle of discomfort why he bothered me: it was not so much that I resented the hearty backslapping bonhomie of English upper-class gentlemen, for I could tolerate it well enough in Sidney on his own. It was the way Sidney fell so easily into this strutting group of young men, where I could not, and the fear that he might in some ways prefer their company to mine. Once again, I felt that peculiar stab of loneliness that only an exile truly knows: the sense that I did not belong, and never would again.","author":"S.J. Parris","tags":["assimilation","culture","identity"],"id":355503,"author_id":"S.J.+Parris"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}