Whatever Happened to German America?

[DMX7]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/op...ol-left-region

Berlin — WHAT is America’s largest national ethnic group? If you said English, Italian or Mexican, you’re wrong. Today some 46 million Americans can claim German ancestry. The difference is, very few of them do.

Indeed, aside from Oktoberfest, German culture has largely disappeared from the American landscape. What happened?

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[m>s]

We got flooded is what happened. German America was best America.

[Pelicans78]

Its a shame people aren't happy with themselves or where they come from whether it's German-Americans or Bobby Jindal. Always trying to fit in or please others. That's how es live.

[Winehole23]

German-Americans got Americanized. The xenophobia stoked by two world wars in the 20th century was probably all the encouragement needed to deemphasize their ethnic roots.

[Winehole23]

thousands of internees in Crystal City, including their American-born children, were exchanged into war for more important Americans.

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/18/378116...ii-internments

[hater]

All they got is good beer and cars. And now their cars are

[m>s]

All they got is good beer and cars. And now their cars are

You didn't hear? Our media is only slamming them because they're opening a factory in Russia. Over 100 years of USA foreign policy has been centered first and foremost around driving a wedge between Germany and Russia. We are mad.