Goes for Canada too

US President 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

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

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'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

Kattints a kibontásához...

This is only an opinion of one man who happened to be the president of the US.
This opinion does not agree with our constitution and it is rightfully so.
Also there is no law in the country that states that English is the official language and there is no room for others.

It's a pure utopia.

Undivided allegiance doesn't exist. You feel yourself alleged with some aspects of your country, his representatives, his history... but ashamed by others. Undivided allegiance is ostentatively presented (and expected) in a dictatorship only. Democracies do not go for undivided allegiance, they just expect you will behave according to the rules.

Richard, a Slovak citizen by birth. Hungarian by God's grace...