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Excorcism
01-30-2006, 07:25 PM
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/teddyroos.asp

I found this to be interesting. Any thoughts? Comments?


Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Jimbo Gomez
01-30-2006, 07:43 PM
Sensible words. Complete and utter assimilation or else you can get the hell out.
Hakluyt
01-31-2006, 03:02 AM
I think FrancisScottPlantagenet mentioned that Roosevelt also said Germans should be forced to marry Irish, in order to create hybrids roughly equivalent to the English in racial terms
OVERWATCH
01-31-2006, 03:05 AM
Ole T.R. was a great man.

Hail Ted!
Excorcism
01-31-2006, 03:20 AM
Ole T.R. was a great man.

Hail Ted!

Is your avatar a picture of the man during one of his many Safari hunts?
Lenny
02-01-2006, 02:18 AM
The statement is no good because it downplays, to the extent of basically calling them meaningless, the racial and religious backgrounds of immigrants. The fact is that some racial/ethnic and religious populations are much more "assimilable" into US society and much more preferable to be included into US society, than others.
infoterror
02-01-2006, 02:49 AM
I think FrancisScottPlantagenet mentioned that Roosevelt also said Germans should be forced to marry Irish, in order to create hybrids roughly equivalent to the English in racial terms

Yuk.

I don't see how assimilation makes an immigrant anything than what they (genetically) are.
infoterror
02-01-2006, 02:53 AM
Ole T.R. was a great man.

Hail Ted!

For conspiracy freaks... (http://www.fourwinds10.com/news/07-history/A-american/2005/07A-05-07-05-franklin-delano-roosevelt-communist-dictator.html)
Jimbo Gomez
02-01-2006, 10:14 AM
The statement is no good because it downplays, to the extent of basically calling them meaningless, the racial and religious backgrounds of immigrants. The fact is that some racial/ethnic and religious populations are much more "assimilable" into US society and much more preferable to be included into US society, than others.

In his days, the only immigrants entering your country were Europeans and a few chinks instead of the horde of wogs you get now, so 100 years ago that statement made sense.