George Washington, in a letter to John Adams, stated that immigrants should be absorbed into American life so that “by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, laws: in a word soon become one people.”
In a 1790 speech to Congress on the naturalization of immigrants, James Madison stated that America should welcome the immigrant who could assimilate, but exclude the immigrant who could not readily “incorporate himself into our society.”
Racists all, of course.
Saturday, July 03, 2010
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Where's the ho-bags label?
Malapropism, thy name is Der Rotter.
Non sequitur, thy Pope is Tecs.
I'll take that. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
No way. I would never misuse malapropism! Powww! Go back to Russia!
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