Date: September 4th, 2015 6:56 AM Author: big depressive wrinkle
"I’ve never ceased to be Mexican. I have two passports, and I vote in elections in both countries. I’m deeply proud of this duality. The best thing about America is its embrace of diversity.
The worst thing about America, of course, is the racist and xenophobic attitudes that tend to emerge"
Date: September 4th, 2015 9:51 AM Author: exciting frum dilemma
I'm not a fan of the man. He claims he's a journalist but behaves like an activist. Still, dual citizenship is common and it doesn't necessarily mean that one loves America any less. I am a dual citizen and can also vote in foreign elections (though I've never done it before).
Date: September 4th, 2015 9:53 AM Author: Supple box office sound barrier
“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.”
Date: September 4th, 2015 10:00 AM Author: exciting frum dilemma
Well, I'm an American. I'm thoroughly American and my loyalties lie here. The world is more nuanced and interconnected than it was under Teddy Roosevelt (who I revere). Assimilation is necessary but the angry white nationalist rhetoric on this board is divisive and counter to such a goal.
Date: September 4th, 2015 11:07 AM Author: Crystalline Nighttime Coffee Pot Scourge Upon The Earth
the "nuance and interconnectedness of the world" alone does not address the normative premise of Roosevelt's argument, and to address that you need to either say that loyalty is worthless or that loyalty to America is worthless. I'm sure you believe both of those things, so why not just make the point.
Date: September 4th, 2015 9:58 AM Author: big depressive wrinkle
America is just a site of exploitation for foreigners, who think they can come here and make money, run identity-politics scams, buy influence, etc, while maintaining loyalties to their *real* country/culture/people abroad. they don't respect the idea that America is a nation. they treat it as a sort of international exchange that belongs to the whole world.
they are not American. they are alien and they should be sent away.
Date: September 6th, 2015 3:21 PM Author: salmon well-lubricated forum gaping
Its LOL that many of these same ppl harp abt how they will get another passport and renounce their US citizenship cause of Obama's terror but then bitch when non-whites hold two passports.
Date: September 6th, 2015 3:21 PM Author: salmon well-lubricated forum gaping
Fuck all you white nationslists. YOu lost. Get the fuck out of this country. It is Turd colored now. You are whiney bitches getting decimated by hard working beaners and NOWAGS cause ur fucking lazy. You have shit values, accept that and get teh fuck out faggots