(c.1) If we set this beside the comment quoted above that "conception in the human mind is the assimilation of beings," it is clear that "assimilating" and "measuring" are the dominant metaphors Nicholas uses to understand what we do as knowers.
The problem is immigration — "They are not assimilating" — and America is next.
"Ten, 15 years from now," he said, "you might not have any Liberians living there, because they'll start assimilating and moving up".
"We're so focused on fitting in and assimilating and moving away from the community," said Ms. Fleurimond, 28, who immigrated at age 7 and graduated from Columbia University.
This is a play about outsiders and their singular creativity, about the push and pull between assimilating and being true to yourself.
"We're trying to reach secular Jews, who are in danger of assimilating and disappearing and not keeping their heritage alive," said Rabbi Yaacov Deyo, the educational director of Aish HaTorah in Los Angeles.
Instead, scientists like Dr. Frachetti are discovering that nomadic cultures are flexible, switching between transient and more sedentary ways of life, and assimilating and inventing new ideas and technologies.
One Massachusetts official called French Canadians "the Chinese of the eastern states" in an 1881 report that described them as "indefatigable workers" who had no interest in assimilating and drove American wages down.
