Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

Immigrants have to adopt our values, not the other way around.

It's the culture, not the blood. If you can go anywhere in the world and adopt these babies and put them into households that were already assimilated in America, those babies will grow up as American as any other baby with as much patriotism and love of country as any other baby. It's not about race. It's never been about race. In fact the struggles across this planet, we describe them as race, they're not race. They're culture based. It's a clash of culture, not the race. Sometimes that race is used as an identifier.

What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.

We are becoming a society where multiculture means no public culture.

Both my mother-in-law and Rajiv made it easy for me. I feel very Indian and am not conscious of being an Italian in India.

Saying... 'Come as you are, keep living like you do, keep your culture, and we will add all that together,' doesn't work.

We are American at puberty. We die French.

Americans are as they are. We have to accept this. Lots of Europeans forget that.

It is often not even wise to try to make an American of the best of aliens.

Britishness has got to be the foundation of the multicultural society in this country. Anything less than this is farcical and treacherous.

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans — convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me.

It is important that those that do come to settle in the U.K. gain a sense of British identity and share British values. We have always attracted the best and brightest.

I have no problems with a multicultural society; I think that is to the benefit of the country. But you have to be careful what levels you take it to.

Extreme multiculturalism... is not the way to build this country.

The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough.

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.

When I was in Holland, the idea was, all cultures are equal and all are to be preserved. My idea was, no, all humans are equal, but not all cultures are equal.

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.