steverhcp02 said:
twesterm said:
steverhcp02 said:
thranx said:
I am amazed that we get angy with other countries for not securing their boarders, but we won't secure our own? It truly baffles me. but i believe this is the root of the problem.
We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an
American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin.
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.
Roosevelt
roblem. People who come to the united states should be coming here to embrace our way of life and to become americans. I don't consider myself German American because my mother is a german immigrant, nor does she consider herself German. We consider ourselves American because we embrace this country. When they want to be americans I think americans will have less problems with them. If they still want to be mexican citizens and continue to embrace what mexico has become (corrupt and crime ridden) then perhaps they should just live in mexico and take their problems their. When they are ready to become americans there is a process in place already, follow it.
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We dont apply the same theories in science from hundreds of years ago. I dont see how social/global views can stay set in stone.
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1. Sure we do
2. Since when is Roosevelt hundreds of years old?
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really? Antibiotics? HIV/Aids? Sterile Technique? Carcinogens? Vitamins? Cancers? Vaccines?
I wonder how roosevelt would feel had we developed a polio vaccine 40 years sooner.
Id say a man speaking on "american values" nearly a hundred years ago who never was exposed to the 1960's or many other civil rights movements, kosovo, sudan, iraq, WW2 really doesnt have a grasp of where our country is at or the world for that matter in 2010.
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I guess on that note we should throw out the constitution, it was written even before roosevelt made that statement. Science is far different from socail values. I am sorry to say, what roosevelt said still resonates with americans today, that is why I haven't seen it until recently. It was brought up by people who share my veiw and his, that we should be in america to be americans. Way to miss the point though
