I get sick and tired of hearing the BS about other countries not liking us… I will not go out of my way to make them dislike me, but if they don’t like me (or us) for who we are…. why should we care?
When people say “I have traveled to many countries and they don’t like us”… I say “Then they are idiots!” If I were to make the equally ignorant comment of “I don’t like Mexicans” or “I don’t like Canadians” or “I don’t like Iraqis” I would be an idiot too. Anyone who would make a statement like that is a fool and needs a slap in the mush.
Here is Teddy’s take on it:
TEDDY ROOSEVELT on immigration
“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.”
President Theodore Roosevelt – 1907