Americanization Quotes

“I realized we were lurching toward a new world—one where women would disappear with foreigners, where Americans would never leave us alone, where they didn't simply provide us with money but with their ways of living as well.”
― Crystal Hana Kim, If You Leave Me

“How a people eats is one of the most powerful ways they have to express, and preserve, their cultural identity...To make food choices more scientific is to empty them of their ethnic content and history;”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise of bourgeoisie, and the decline of aristocracy.”
― Terre Thaemlitz, Nuisance - Writings on identity jamming & digital audio production

“How a people eats is one of the most powerful ways they have to express, and preserve, their cultural identity...To make food choices more scientific is to empty them of their ethnic content and history; --Harvey Levenstein”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“What America explores today, the world explores a decade later.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

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Assimilation takes place in the spheres of religion and language most easily and is most successful among people who are culturally similar to the dominant group. When race is the distinguishing feature, assimilation efforts become irrelevant.”
― Milica Zarkovic Bookman, The Demographic Struggle for Power

“To see the world as it is, first we gotta take off our western glasses. Look at the human world with human eyes, only then you'll fathom justice and progress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“The world doesn't have history,
what we have is whitewashed history.
The world doesn't have progress,
what we have is westwashed progress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo