Motivations for citizenship.

[vwrw]

I would like to ask for your help by taking a short survey (18 questions) about an immigrants motivations to become a citizen of the USA.   

As some of you know I am a college student.   This survey is a project for my statistics class.   If your wife has applied for citizenship or is planning to apply, could you ask her to fill in the survey or ask about her motivations and fill out the questionare for her.  The more responses I get, the more it will help me.

For those that are the one who immigrated, it would help me very much if you could take my survey.   When it is done I will post the results so you can see how your motivations compare to others.    PLEASE HELP.

Any suggestions concerning this survey are welcome.   

Please follow the link below for the survey.

http://www.my3q.com/go.php?url=vwrw/95753

[Turboguy]

On the subject of citizenship VWRW came across a quote from a letter by Theodore Roosevelt made in 1907.   I have to agree with what he said but I also think it is not what I see with most of the RW who move here and marry.   Here is Teddy's quote.

We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become 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 man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. . . . There can be no divided allegiance here. . .

If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated form the rest of America, then he isn’t doing his part as an American.

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.

VWRW said to me quite a while ago that she wanted to be an American woman from Russia and not a Russian woman living in America.   I think her ideas fit in with what Teddy said very well but I don't see the same from most of the RW.