in his declaration of neutrality, President Woodrow Wilson stated the people of the United States are drawn for many nations, and chiefly from the nations now at war why did the President want to keep the United States out of World War I?
He was concerned that America did not have enough ethnic diversity, because immigration rates had plummeted
He feared that some Americans would not be able to sympathize with the enemy, and understand the reasons behind the war
He worried that entering the war would cause conflict in disloyalty among Americans, because many had cultural ties to the countries at war
He felt that Americans would be more likely to support the war if they value their European origins