The phrase "assert your place" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when encouraging someone to confidently claim their position or role in a situation or environment.
Example: "In order to succeed in this competitive industry, you must learn to assert your place among your peers."
Alternatives: "claim your position" or "establish your role."
It is not about politics or asserting your place in the community, not even about national pride.
This isn't about being bossy, pushy or demanding; it's about asserting your place in the world and seeking the things you need to flourish.
China, like Japan in 1964 and South Korea in 1988, wanted to assert its place in the world.
According to the organisers, mapping is a way for the favela to assert its place in the city.
Not respected at first glance, she wins the support of the rich Jaime Lannister to assert her place in Westeros.
Long before she and Mr. Lauer became co-hosts, Ms. Curry could be seen trying to find, or assert, her place in the show on a significant occasion: Ms. Couric's last day as co-host in 2006.
Click here In American movies especially, dance wants to assert the place of the individual, to find a space for their freedom, their spontaneity, and their capacity for improvised joy.
Cemeteries, funerals, the legacies and possessions of the dead are featured prominently in Mr. Cox's pictorial scheme, not to eclipse the living but to assert their place in the continuum.
The super PACs most active in the Republican presidential primaries showed less activity in April as that race all but drew to a close and Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, began to assert his place as the party's de facto nominee.
Young men once headed to the Ivy League to acquire the patina of high culture that would allow them to move in the circles of power — or if they were to the manner born, to assert their place at the top of the social heap by flashing what they already knew.
