Posted on 08/14/2019 1:50:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
It is very easy to be an American Nationalist. We come in all colors so there is no "us" to look like, and we have freedom of religion so there is no "us" to pray like. You must however share our collective national values to be one of us. This is far from a new concept as shown by the Prussian reformer Johann Fichte's (1808) Addresses to the German Nation. Fichte "…did not divide man-kind into Germans and non-Germans, but rather into those who believed in the spontaneous originality and liberty of man and those who did not. The former, Fichte held, were Germans, no matter what their racial or political affiliation; the latter were not" (Koppel S. Pinson, Modern Germany; its History and Civilization).
American Nationalism is similarly inclusive of all who share our values, and it has zero tolerance for discrimination against any American's race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. Theodore Roosevelt's 1894 essay on “True Americanism” elaborated of recent immigrants, "An immense number of them have become completely Americanized, and these stand on exactly the same plane as the descendants of any Puritan, Cavalier, or Knickerbocker among us, and do their full and honorable share of the nation’s work."
The proposition that people who do not like the United States should go back where they or their ancestors came from predates Donald Trump by almost 200 years. The “Annual Register” of 1820 said of Caucasian immigrants from German-speaking countries, "…if they cannot accommodate themselves to the moral, political, and physical state of this country, the Atlantic Ocean will always be open to them to return to their native countries."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I think this is true of any country, else you have nothing but mush in people, culture, and laws.
It was true here when we had a WASP culture; as that has been dismantled starting in the late 1960s, it is now “evil” to suggest anyone assimilate.
The U.S. Census Bureau classifies immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East as “white.”
The author should have provided Trump’s exact quote.
Trump said “The Squad” should go back to their home countries and fix what is wrong, then, come back to the USA and show us how it is done.
Faggotry was rightly outlawed for most of American history.
Stopped reading right there
Out of about 2 million people in my city I am the only one who objects outwardly to peoplwround here barking spanish/Mexican.
So I’d say assimilate or leave always HAD been ...
Americans are wimps.
Human beings are wimps. I think it comes from being so far removed from nature and the need to fight just to live.
After a conquest, the Romans didn’t try to force the conquered to assume the Roman way of life, they would just settle some Romans in the area in homes built and operated to Roman standards, and counted on the display of their luxuriant lifestyle to win them over. And that idea worked ... until it didn’t.
And France always welcomed immigrants of every stripe. Everyone was invited to come, provided they agreed to live French. That, too, worked ... until it didn’t.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana
Meaning they were identified as Caucasian, which stood for white.
Re: Meaning they were identified as Caucasian
The Census Bureau might use the word “Caucasian” some place, but they use the terms “White alone” and “White alone, not Hispanic or Latino” on their most current population estimates.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045218
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