And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.
Amy TanStichwörter: fear perception women family joy hope language ideas immigration mothers china luck daughters tradition heritage concepts
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
Claudio MagrisStichwörter: immigration xenophobia emigration
I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.
Mark SteynStichwörter: immigration culture islam
Racism. . . . fuelled by bitter assertions that no immigrant ever has the least respect for the environment in his adopted country because he never really believes it's his.
James Hamilton-PatersonStichwörter: immigration
Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.
Orhan PamukStichwörter: identity religion immigration bildungsroman
The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
Chuck PalahniukStichwörter: truth immigration born american palahniuk choke born-here immigrant
Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: united-states immigration naturalisation
I take issue with many people's description of people being "Illegal" Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned.
Dennis KucinichStichwörter: inspirational immigration
Yo no soy mexicano. Yo no soy gringo. Yo no soy chicano. No soy gringo en USA y mexicano en Mexico. Soy chicano en todas partes. No tengo que asimilarme a nada. Tengo mi propia historia.
Carlos FuentesStichwörter: immigration culture us-history méxico chicano mexican-american carlos-fuentes border frontera la-frontera-de-cristal mexican-american-history mexicano mexico-us
Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.
Andre Dubus IIIStichwörter: america immigration american-dream
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