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| Theodore Roosevelt 1907; On immigrants and being American | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 31 2007, 08:55 PM (182 Views) | |
| legitlinda | Jan 31 2007, 08:55 PM Post #1 |
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The year is 1907.....but the speaker knew what he was talking about. READ PRINT UNDER PICTURE ![]() 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 ha! ve 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
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| Almtnman | Jan 31 2007, 09:29 PM Post #2 |
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| Ali | Feb 1 2007, 12:12 AM Post #3 |
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Legitlinda - that's a great post that I have seen before, sent to me by a friend a while back. It seems to ring true - then and now. Without trying to sound like a snotface; what about the before 'then'? When people first came to this country, the Native Americans were already here and their language didn't mean much to us then. The first word we taught them was probably 'smallpox'. Heck, they had to reteach themselves the language when WWII rolled around and they helped us a great deal. A few months after I read this quote, I had a reason to look up something in the phone book .... (does anybody else know that you can't dial 0 for an operator anymore?!!) and there in our phone book was a whole list of languages....French, Korean, Japanese and Hispanic. It was a real culture shock for me! (our phone book is less than an inch thick) Thank goodness I learned how to shampoo my hair before the directions were put in 20 different languages! Wasn't it year's ago that some woman drank dish washing liquid because she thought it was lemonade? Seems like we're damned if we do, and we're damned if we don't! This old world is moving awful fast these days and there are times when I feel pretty much screwed, and common sense don't make no sense at all. Rosemary LaBonte's letter should be plastered over every newspaper in America - in twenty different languages. IF you come here, IF you want to become an American - you must feel it in your heart and soul. The "Land of the Free" doesn't mean that life and freedom is free. |
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