What were Roosevelt's views on americanization?

Answer 1

Teddy Roosevelt seems to have espoused the concept of "assimilation", aka "the melting pot."

In quotes both before and after he was President, Teddy expressed a concern over immigrants who retained some sort of "fifty-fifty allegiance" between their new country (the US) and their home country.

In 1894, he wrote of a hypothetical immigrant: "If he tries to retain his old language, in a few generations it becomes a barbarous jargon; if he tries to retain his old customs and ways of life, in a few generations he becomes an uncouth boor."

In 1919, in a widely circulated comment written just days before he died, he wrote in part:

"...it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact 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."

Answer 2

Theodore Roosevelt was a supporter of Americanization, believing that immigrants should adopt American values and culture. He advocated for teaching English in schools and promoting citizenship education to help immigrants assimilate into American society. Roosevelt saw Americanization as essential for fostering unity and national identity.