[StBernard] Americans

[Westley Annis]

> Although times have changed...I have to agree to a point with Theodore

Roosevelt... I think that it is a wonderful advantage to Americans...to
learn other cultures and languages....as is to immigrants who come to the
United States to learn ours....

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> 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

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