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Thread: America and Immigration
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11-30-2007 #1
America and Immigration
Sure this will get moved but will start it off here...
"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 man's becoming in very fact 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, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...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."
Teddy Roosevelt 1919
Thoughts?
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11-30-2007 #2
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Interesting topic. I'll leap forward to where I believe this thread will lead:
The fundamental problem with trying to build Utopia is that most people don't know what the word Utopia means. And that doesn't bother them.
It's difficult to work around that.
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11-30-2007 #3
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Re: America and Immigration
Originally Posted by DJ_Asia
There is a line I remember from college-A nation won't last if it doesn't have 3 things:Territorial integrity, a shared history and a shared language.
The military should provide for the first, public schools the second and third.
Alright Then.
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11-30-2007 #4Originally Posted by hondarobot
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11-30-2007 #5
Curious, however, that the US allows its citizens to have dual nationality. Just an observation. (I think that's a good thing, I'm not having a go.)
As for the linguistic issue, that's a very interesting question indeed.....I know quite a few Swiss and as you are all, I'm sure, aware, there are four languages officially spoken there: German, French, Italian and Rumantsch. This definitely does not stop Swiss, whichever language they speak, seeing themselves as Swiss.