You know what Bismarck said about the germans? "They re the only xenophile people in the world he knows". Dotn wonder when new germans will enter your country as refugees in the future. Guess this will come.
Yeah I live in Utah and I went to the police station for fingerprints for work and on the wall they had the fingerprints of a serial killer that was German-American with a harsh German mother but he sympathized with the nazi movement so what he target mix race couples mostly lucky they caught him But yeah it’s quit interesting to think about anyway that what this made me think about
Toller Beitrag! Ich bin hier geboren, also in den USA. Mein Urgrossvater kam schon 1863 aus Arzberg im Fichtelgebirge hier an. Ich bin also in der 4. Generation und pfege hier immer noch einen deutschen Lebensstil. Alles Gute, Leutchen!
@@gregoryh3270 It's supposed to be not German related? I don't believe it a second. In the dialect of the city of Frankfurt (on the Main) they call their own city Frankfort and themselves Frankforter. On google maps I've a list of more than hundred places in the USA, Canada, Mexico and Brazil where cities and villages have German names.
Actually they called them ''dutch'', because at that time, there was no united nation of germany. They called em ''dutch'', because they we're all taking the ferry from amsterdam or rotterdam, but most of pennsylvanian dutch people are as a matter of fact from the rheinland pfalz, saarland, hessen and franconian region :)
@Holy Roman Empire In a way yeah, we were one during the Holy Roman Empire, then we separated in 1648, although at the time there was no common language as every village had its own dialect. It wasn't until the reformation when Bibles were printed in the common tongue that national languages came around. Modern Dutch is based on the accent from Holland, the richest province. Oh, and we dropped the cases! You should try it too neighbor!
@@user-dl1xz3mj3i, the Eastern part of France was/is Germanic, and even with that the Franks didn't replace the native population. They were the rulers, though. I am not sure if I am right on that, but Wikipedia says, - I know it is not the best source, but still: "Historically the heritage of the French people is mostly of Celtic and Roman origin, descending from the ancient and medieval populations of Gauls, Ligures, Latins, Iberians, and to a lesser extent, Germanic people such as Franks, Alamansand Norsemen."
I’m an American (Hispanic with French & Spanish ancestry), but I’m fascinated by Bavaria. And I’ve been learning some languages as of recent and one of them is German. I really love learning about other cultures & places & languages.
Isn't ironic that in WW2 the supreme commander of the Allied Forces in Europe and head of the invasion of Germany was Eisenhower, a Pennsylvania Dutch?
Pennsylvania German. "Eisenhower" is the Anglicization of "Eisenhauer" familly name coming from Saarland Germany. It comes from "Esels ohren" in German. It means "Donkey Ears". So the West German armies were defeated by an American general of German descent.
@GasGodLuigi immigration has been the US's greatest power. We are a nation of immigrants who came here with nothing and worked for everything. Now your complaining about people coming here with nothing. You ignorant ass.
This is an amazing video on German ancestry in America! I am (What I consider as) Dutch/German-American. My moms side was 100% Dutch, her parents came to America in the 1950s for 'The American Dream' after surviving WWII. My family comes from the German area of central Texas from my dads side. My Grandfather was 100% Deutsch, as well as his family members, but my Grandmother was an entire mix. I am told I have German relatives out there that I do not know about. Apparently my Great Grandparents on my Dads side could speak Deutsch fluently, but my Grandfather and Dad never picked it up. My family also dropped speaking Deutsch after WWII. My German Grandfather spoke of a prince that came from a German Kingdom who had the last name of Friesenhahn, whom settled in Texas before it was a state, along with other Friesenhahn's. That is the reason why my last name on my Dads side was never 'Americanized'. If you happen to go to Houston Texas area, you will hopefully see lots of Friesenhahn's. My family's history with Religion is a bit different than to most German-Americans. As you where saying, they had a few different faiths, notably; Protestant. Considering my German ancestry, the Germans in Texas (Im told) where primarily Catholic Christians compared to around the country. Im currently learning Deutsch and am proud about my Heritage despite what they still say. I have to say, the oppression of German Americans after and during the World Wars needs to be known about, and not shut up by the main stream media. Danke fur ein wunderschones video! Haben ein guten tag, und Gott segne! :D
Since your last name is Friesenhahn, your ancestors might come from the very north of Germany. Near to the Dutch and Danish Border! The people from this area are called "Friesen" and Hahn means rooster btw
Actually there are more Americans of English ancesty than German. Many of the English immigrants identify as "Americans", since they've been in the US for hundreds of years.
All this fus started in 1980 Census adopting multiply ancestry .Germans, italians doubled and British diminished .There are 3 more Times in number British + lrish americans than germans .Comparing their contribuitions in USA Life (except in economic field ) is rediculious .40 Presidents Vs 3 .English founded Usa ,irish and scotish made It great , germans pushed the economiy higher .
@@1158supersiri I hear the South is mostly British descent, the Notheast is Irish descent save for Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine which are more English, and Pennsylvania and the Midwest are more German descent, with Minnesota also having lot of Scandinavian.
Anabaptists keep High German and Americas German dialect(Pennsylvania Dutch) alive. 3.5 million speakers. Then there are foreign born Germans here and their kids.
I have German ancestry on my mother’s side, while my dad is from Africa. A few of my relatives have told me stories of German society in America. I was told of the discrimination that they faced during the First World War. My great grandmother, her father was a minister of a German church in Ogden, Utah. He would go and visit inmates who were incarcerated during the war on being falsely accused of spying because they spoke German in public. When he visited the prison, a woman asked him to give a loved one a letter, which he agreed to do. The letter was written in German and the guards accused him of sending a hidden message. He was found locked up in the prison for a few weeks without the family knowing what happened to him. While my great grandmother was an adult and had a teaching career, her father decided to move to Chicago after the incident. I probably didn’t explain it so well but I wanted to share part of my German family’s history.
English people got shit on during the war of independence (loyalists) Irish, Italians, Polish and other catholic immigrants got shit on because of religion Germans and Japanese got shit on for their nationalities. African Americans got shit on because of their skin tone The history of America is basically different major ethnic groups dunking each other
If u don’t like it…go back to Germany…they were treated like shit during WW1 because they were literally supporting the nazis..stop the cap…they gave y’all all that public land via homestead act anyway…so u got something for nothing…America gained nothing with ur arrival bud…get off ur high horse
As a Deutsch-Americaner who has just recently started discovering my heritage, I really appreciate people like yourself who help spread the word. It's sad that we've lost our national identity, but I'm glad that it wasn't forgotten.
It is important to keep in mind, though, that at the height of German immigration to the United States in the early 19th century, there was no unified German nation or country. Instead what is now Germany was a quilt of several kingdoms, dukedoms, countys etc. with different laws, currencies, flags etc. A person coming to the US at that time would probably not even identify him- or herself as "German", but rather as Prussian, Bavarian, Hessian etc. and someone from the Lower Rhine region (where I live) for example would probably feel a much closer connection to someone coming from the Netherlands than from Bavaria (even linguistically btw, even today, it is easier for me to understand the Dutch language than any of the Southern dialects).
Now, what you wrote is pretty much a description of modern day pride in Germany also. What you need to take into account is that many "Germans" that immigrated did so because of religious prosecution and the failed attempt to form a unified (democratic) German state. So in all likelihood, allot of the immigrants where actually fellows that wanted a unified Germany and identified as Germans for that matter but were extremely disappointed and left "Germany" because it failed to unify.
MissyLaMotte I’m Dutch myself, and you guys always understand me surprisingly well. I do not live near the rhine, but I do live near the German border in the North (Groningen-Leer/Bremen), and everytime I’m there and need help: somebody starts speaking a mixture of Dutch and German to me, and are able to understand me perfectly fine when I speak Dutch to them. It’s really amazing how different yet so similar our languages are!
in the beginning of the 19th century there was no modern state called Germany but there has been a German people and identity. so trust me, they all considered themselves German and were called like that by others. the beginning of German identity goes back to the high middle ages and even the holy roman empire was colloquially referred to as Germany since the 16th century.
CrazyTraffic True, although, the people from the rhineland have been under dutch rule briefly multiple times, and are quite closely situated to them. So I wouldn’t be surprised if they called themselves Dutch tho. Especially since they sailed with the Dutch West Indies Company.
@@roy_hks "dutch" derives from "deutsch" aka german. the dutch were considered germans at least until their independence in the 16/17th century and they even continued to call themselves (neder-)duits afterwards. the english term "dutch" was used until the 16th century for all german-speaking folks (including those in the netherlands). also, the rhineland was hardly ever under any dutch rule (i'm from cologne) but some eastern rhenish regions were in fact close to dutch affairs and culture. so no need for any rhinlander to call himself "dutch" when the dutch called themselves duits. during these times the dutch were considered a german variant just like the swiss-germans who happened to live in an independent state.
My father's ancestors came from the German-Dutch border and Prussia. Since my Mother's Italian heritage includes Lombards, some German comes from there, also.
@Philip Voerding effectively the name Lombardia (northern italian region) derives from Longobardi, a german tribe who invaded Italy in the 6th century AD, after the downfall of western roman empire.
luke lee that also common in England , since the anglo Saxon did that and also surname with ending in -sen is high in Yorkshire where the viking colonised
Though it is fast disappearing, you can still hear the local dialect of German spoken in Texas. It is its own dialect. Completely separate and distinct from any spoken in Europe today. You have to go to places like new Braunfels and Fredericksburg to hear it. But, you still find it from time to time.
Well, many English are of German decent . In fact, if you are English and can trace your roots back to the 10th century; you almost certainly are in fact German.
@@char08fal As i understand it, when groups split from each other they start to develop culturally different and ethnically different over time, the more time they are away from each other, the less connected they are, if you want to learn specifically you could always just research it, but like swedes, people from denmark and germany all share relation with each other but none ethnically identify as the same, they all hate each other. So its weird trying to group anyone who shares germanic routes as German.
@@vulgrim909 Ohhh gotcha. That's funny because Ancestry lumps them all as "Germanic Europe" but some other sites like MyHeritage and FTDNA separate them out more.
@James Smith Germans typically associate their pride with their respective ethnic backgrounds and countries they are from (Saxon, Thuringian, Hessian, Bavarian, Phalian and so on). There's allot of bad connotation to overall German Pride due to Hitler. Unfortunately that has gone as far that the old-Germanic branch of tradition nearly went extinct. You'll barely find towns where they celebrate runes or pagan culture predating the christian era.
Exactly although there are always Germans that even going out recently will never forget their origins and the pride of it as politicians intend to do.
@@BroadwayRonMexico wrong. Im 20 years old with ashblond hair, moonlight blue eyes, trained body and 191 cm tall. Even my face features are typical german -> high cheeks etc. My IQ is located by 131. And i do know that Ive to thank my genes for all of this. Im proud of our history, inventions, language and our places which looks almost like typical locations in a fairytale. You do mean the north of germany which already lost much of its culture and identity like berlin. But i can state that "Berliners" tend to be leftists because of the influlence of communism in the past and the today cultural marxism. Berlin isnt that what it was once 100 years ago. Many buildings were destoryed in WW2 and not rebuilded again. Its nearly a leftists shithole which much arabic or turkish family clans. Just as disgusting as Hamburg or Bremen.
@@bn56would no. There's twice more people have Celtic blood in England then Ireland Scotland Wales combined for instance... since DNA testing came about Anglo-Saxon blood isn't nearly as prevalent as thought to be
I live in Wisconsin and yes, most people around here have at least some German ancestry. There are also a lot of Norwegians in my neck of the woods. And there are tons of Amish near my home (very nice people). I have a bit of German ancestry, I think my great grandfather was half German, but most of my ancestors are Eastern European or Russian.
Thank you!! PA Dutch, (12 Generation German in the US). Born in Williamsport, PA. but Family from Northumberland, Berks and Bucks County! Long live the German’s!
Wo wohnt ihr ? Immer wenn ich in den USA war gab es Leute, die irgendwie mit den Deutschen eine Beziehung hatten, aber niemand sprach wirklich Deutsch...
Germanic includes Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, England, East-France and Luxembourg. But your family-name looks German indeed, so you probably mean German. ;)
@@weissachpassion da ist niemand das du mit deutsch sprechen can. Es isst alles Weck getötet, ich war im einer deutsche/amerikanische Schule und das war einzige Platz das du deutsch hören können.
If we are brothers and sisters, as you say, then why did we go to war with each other twice in the last century??? And why is America paying for Germany's military defense right now, while Germans enjoy cradle to grave social welfare, which Americans cannot afford because America spends astronomically for Germany's military defense? America is more like Germany's father, and Germany and all of Europe are like spoiled undeserving and ungrateful children who refuse to take care of themselves, even though Europe is richer than the USA.
Great video! There’s a reason the most “American” thing to do is have a summertime cookout where we eat hotdogs, hamburgers and potato salad (all German cuisine). There are many other German things that Americans do, like put up Christmas trees in December for example. I am also glad you brought up the oppression of German Americans during WW1, I have many family stories that were passed down to me about my ancestors being discriminated against, yet there are no books written about this subject. It is truly a forgotten history and I blame the mainstream media for suppressing the subject. We’re just immigrants who came and settled in America to escape hardship in the old country, just like everyone else who came here.
Us English also put up Christmas trees in December, but we are known as Anglo Saxons, and where did the Saxons come from? Yes that’s it north Germainia aka modern day north Germany and Holland.
@@matty6848 yes but Anglo Saxons came to Britain more than a thousand years ago and the French invaded and came in large making a massive impact on the language culture and genetics so modern day British people have more in common with the welsh Scots and French than Germans in contrast to America whose German immigration was much more recently and on a larger scale
There might be more English than German surnames in America, but that means nothing. Because of the anti-German hysteria preceding both world wars, many Americans of German heritage chose to make their last last names sound more English, in order to avoid harassment For example, many "Schmidts" changed their names to "Smith" in those times. Also, over one hundred years ago, standard spelling was not always used. Therefore when immigrants arriving from Germany, who mostly spoke no English, pronounced their last names to immigration authorities who often spoke no German, their names were spelled the way they sounded to the Americans, and not the way in the way they were spelled in Germany. For example, the German name "Koehler" became "Kaylor." These are just a few of numerous examples. Also, consider the huge culinary influence of Germany here in America. While the American breakfast of bacon and eggs is very English, some of the most popular foods and drinks in America, hail from Germany, i.e. hot dogs, hamburgers, kaiser rolls, pretzels, and beer.
It's not true there's an undercount of Anglo-Americans people of English descent are still probably the biggest ethnic group in America still. www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Americans&ved=2ahUKEwi1sOWvrNzfAhVMRBUIHYt8DPgQFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3w0cQoCWT3iHIU2L7jOE9E&cshid=1546887455273
I’m a second generation German-American on my father’s side. I’m proud of my heritage and loved the stories my father, aunts and uncles would tell of growing up in Germantown, Pa. There was much discussion of my grandfather’s hatred of Hitler and not allowing German to be spoken in his home. All my uncles fought in WWll, one helped liberate Auschwitz. There are several German-American Societies in the Philadelphia area, BTW. Thank you for an informative video.
I’m a 4th generation German-American and my great great grandfather fought for america for both world wars, and interesting fact, he was a guard for the Austrian emperor
@@abeedhal6519 I had no control over what my ancestors thought. My grandfather and grandmother came to the USA between 1903-06. Calling my ancestors war criminals is as bad as blaming the current generation for slavery. Your comment is rude and hateful.
The "Deutsche belt" it's funny how they settled in the almost identical climate as northern Europe/Germany. Half French and German here, it can be confusing and conflicting. Merican though.
We have a German belt in Canada too. Goes from Manitoba through Saskatchewan to Alberta. Saskatchewan is pretty much the buckle. Even our accent in this part of Canada (Prairie Provinces) are influenced by our German ancestors, and we sound more like people from the American Midwest and Great Plains than those guys from Eastern Canada or the Left Coast.
I came from Estonia, and because I live in southern california (aka: the hottest place on earth), I like to go to the mountains pretty much every week.
I’m in California and my fiancé is from Wülfrath (near Köln). I was born in ‘71 and have never taken foreign language lessons, yet he seemed impressed by how familiar with the German language I am. Turns out I had a much older sibling who went to private school and took German as her foreign language, so I was familiar with her “funny writing” (7’s and umlauts, as I recall). In addition I had the privilege of caring for a few elderly people who were German American, one of whom was born 1902 in Pioneer Township, South Dakota and learned English as a second language when she began public school (kindergarten!). Not to mention that I was raised watching The Lawrence Welk Show. German Americans have made major contributions to American economy and culture. Reading over these comments, I’m laughing so hard! This is what I’ve noticed about Germans. They are SO ethnically identified! Swabians or Silesians are NOT Bavarians, etc. I think the German stereotype, if there can be said to be one, IS Bavarian, with beer, sausage, lederhosen and “oompah musik” (Oktoberfest?), which are activities that non-Bavarian Germans quickly and clearly point out don’t go on in the region they’re from. I equate it with American rivalry between regional identification. German language connects all the regions of Germany, but I’ve learned how very different from each other they are culturally. Vive la différence! I love this country and all of its regions, and ALL the European ones of mine and my fellow Americans’ ancestry. Thanks for posting this video!
Artemis fowl: Germany was an is now also very multicultural. I always lough when someone is speaking of german genes. Germany was founded in 1871. It was an still is in the middle of Europe and everyone around 'visited' conquered, occupied and developed the region you know name germany. For hundreds of years. Most of us feel as Europeans.
Its weird to see a small german town like Wülfrath (20k inhabitants) being mentioned by an American in the comment section of a random YT video. I grew up in Wülfrath, what a coincidence!
the german nation is far older than 1871, you are talking about the german nation state. and in fact, most germans still identify themselves as german, then with their region and then as europeans. and btw, the conquering stuff wasn't just germany, actually tribes from what is now germany founded france, england and others.
Outstanding video. I'm watching from Ireland, and had only vaguely known how extensive and prolific the German legacy was in America. Hats off, great video.
This clip is ,fully a nonsense .British + lrish in USA are 3 time more in numbers than germans ,and except in economic field ,their contribution in USA life can.t be' compared. 40 presidents against only 2 german americans presidents.
I wish german americans would be proud like irish americans and celebrate st patricks day or oktoberfest but this is more bavarian not really dutch but no netherlandic for sure
@@matthewmueller2506 Also called the "Munich of the Mid-West" due to all the artists that came here, from Bavaria, to paint those huge murals used for public displays.
The governor of Wisconsin, before the start of the Civil War, actually had a PLAN to secede from the Union BECAUSE of the Federal Government's support of Slavery.
They should never forget it no matter how mixed they are with the Celts of Britain as in the case of the people of the Netherlands. I hate when some people regret its Germanic origins as if the anti-Germanic propaganda had soaked deep against their senses of family, nationalism and culture.
Beautiful Monster way more than half are celts. Have you seen how much taller Germans are compared to brits? The Germans hardly made a dent in the gene pool.
Endlich jemand der nicht erstmal ueber nazis spricht! Actually the german imigrants went all over the World long time ago(1850). Those who left Germany during WWII were asylum seekers.
In researching my maternal grandmother's family, she claimed they were all early English colonists, I found the name "Bütefisch" from northern Bavaria. He had also come over to Virginia fight for the British but at some point deserted them and went over to the Revolutionaries' side. The family evenutally moved to a settlement in Illinois named Virginia founded mostly by Virginians. The name got changed three times until it ended up as "Petefish." The bank in that town was founded by my grandmother's great-uncle and to this day still carries his name. If she knew it, she never let on that her family had any German as she had lived through both world wars as an adult in Minnesota. That was typical of that generation in the 1950's.
I'm a Boere Afrikaner living in Orania, South Africa. Our language is a combination of Dutch and German. My family came to Swellendam from Hesse Kassel in 1829. It is fascinating to think how many volksgenote I might have in north America. Prost and love!
I'm a German American and I live in a area with the highest population of Germans in Wisconsin(Maybe even in the whole Country) . We have held onto a large amount of our roots. Very common to see German flags on peoples house and we calibrate German holidays. Almost everyone I know is either full German or mostly. I can still remember being a child and sitting on my grandfathers lap, telling me stories about our family while he would make sausage and listen to polka on the radio. lol Yes we still have local Polka radio stations.
This is quite the fascinating video! As an African American from Maryland, and I didn't really know how deep German roots really went in this country until college. It amazes me how many still keep up with traditions like oktoberfest and still have clothing inspired from the region. It kind of makes me want to explore the Midwest now and see more of your experiences and culture.
oktoberfest is NOT a german tradition. It is a local bavarian (small sub german cultural group) tradition which went compleatlly nuts in fame around the world. In germany there are only few people actually celebrationg oktoberfest. If you drive just 50km from munich you will find out that they are having a different feast, compleattly seperate from "Oktoberfest". Also nobody in germany is wearing "Lederhosen or Dirndl", traditional BAVARIAN clothes. If yozu were that in northern germany or in middle germany people would think you are retardet and trieying to insult them. Most germans are really anoyied by people thinking "Oktoberfest" and Bavarian clothes are representing germans. THEY ARE NOT. Germany has sooooo many different sub cultures with their own feast and traditional clothing, heck if everybody would speak in their regional dialecrt nobody would understand anybody anymore. The main thing Germans have united is the language and the love for feast and beer. You have to remember that modern germany was over 1000 years split into 500-1000 different countries loosly connected. this also explains why there are austrians and swiss. They are basically ethinc germans who didnt join the political unity of Germany for historic reasons. They are ethnical sub german cultures with their own countrie. The german unity is actually only about 150 years old. Technically the US is older than Germany. Also believe me if I say that you wont find many actual "germans" in the US today. Most are 100% americanized and only have limited knowledge of german cultures (best example the Oktoberfest=german mistake) If you want to experience german culture you have to come to germany, and i mean not only bavaria.
draco2351 - It's great if we can all appreciate each other's cultures, learn and grown, instead of this moronic 'identity politics' rammed down our throat by ideologies and politicians that want to divide and control. As a Christian European-American, one of my biggest inspirations growing up was Cassius Clay/ Mohammed Ali, not because he was black or became Muslim or was against the Vietnam War, but because he was a MAN who was searching for righteousness, was willing to learn and change his opinions and was willing to risk/ sacrifice fame and fortune for what he believed by his own lights was GOOD in the face of great political and press opposition. He could have taken the easy way out and just enjoyed his money and fame. He didn't. Later, he went to Ireland to the town one of his forefathers came from and his funeral was a beautiful thing, very moving. He wasn't a saint, but he fought the good fight and in the end came around to embrace all humanity. He was also a beautiful thing to watch in the ring and in interviews. I also studied in Germany - at the German taxpayer's expense, universities are free, no tuition, in Germany - so a big thank you to Gernany! I found the Germans to be very thoughtful and philosophical, eager to do the right thing, struggling to come to fair terms with and make amends for the horrors of the Third Reich. Hard-working and honest. A big "Prost!" to Germany and be proud of your heritage. Zum Wohl!
king of horn african. they are to conformists with the norms proclaimed in the society ,too submissive to their leaders ,too easy to be guided fascism and too brainwashed to believe in the own superiority what will ironically because of the proclaimed idiocracy in germany lead again in a lot of problems for europe
H Yuval they are submissive to who rule over their country,they accept whatever is being told to them in the same time they believe in the own superiority ,holy right to decide about the fate of europe at the end what people are allowed to live and where they have a very sinistar and gruel nature their motivation today may have different direction but in its nature they are not different than 80 years ago
Me: "Hey, how was your trip to the USA?" All my German friends that traveled to the USA: "Well, we started in NY, then we went to Florida and at the end we visited California. So we might have seen the interesting parts of the US." Me: "..."
Nope. Most of the battles of WWII were in the Eastern front. The German armed forces suffered 80% of its military deaths in the Eastern Front. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Results
Mr. Nobody Well technically every war ever is just Ethiopian vs Ethiopian. Also to the guy saying it was mostly scots and Irish vs brits, Scots ARE British
I was born in Mexico to an American mother and Mexican father. My mother's maiden name is Fausnaugh, and that side of my family comes from Pennsylvania Deutsch. I have been to Germany two times. I am proud of my German heritage; more proud of my German heritage than my English, that's for sure!
My great great grandparents (I think) came to the United States from Bavaria to escape Prussian expansion in the late 1800's and settled down in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The only reason why I researched this is because of this video.
" Prussian expansion".. into where? Prussia did not "expand " into Bavaria!. Prussia created the German Nation through blood Iron and courage.. though Prussia should have taken over Franconia.The nationalist Protestants of Franconia desired that,but instead it ended up part of Bavaria!
What video was it? I have been doing some research about the Germans in Texas and Northern Mexico. Very fascinating. My mother is from Northern Mexico and I will be living in Germany soon.
Sabra Cadabra There are two books you can buy from amazon that talk about the colonization into Texas with ships and passenger lists. It has the letters from the prince who organized it. I bought them because two branches of my dads family are original founding families of Fredericksburg. I just looked for books about Texas German colonies and found them.
@Timotheus Es gibt keine Deutsch Amerikaner, genauso wenig gibt es Deutsch Türken oder sonst etwas in dieser Art. Du bist was du bist durch Geburt, durch die Vererbung der Gene deiner Eltern. Wenn deine Eltern Deutsche sind, bist du Deutscher völlig egal wo du geboren wurdest oder lebst. Du kannst durch die Geburt in den USA die Amerikanische Staatangehörigkeit bekommen, oder dadurch das deine Eltern diese schon "erworben" haben. Aber du bist und bleibst Deutscher. Durch den Erhalt/Erweb eines Stücks Papier auf dem steht: Nationality / Unites States of Amerika verändern sich deine Gene nicht! Dieses stück Papier gibt dir lediglich die Rechte und Pflichten eines jedes Staatsbürgers der USA. Eine Staatsangehörigkeit kann man erwerben oder sie wird einem verliehen, die Zugehörigkeit zu einer Art/Ethnie ist nur durch Geburt möglich und durch kein Papier der Welt zu verändern. Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Falsch deutsch ist nur wer in Deutschland geboren wurde von deutschen Eltern und dort aufwächst. Diese peinlichen 1/16 GERMANZ sind nichts als die Ergüsse einer Gesellschaft voller unsicherer Menschen die eine seltsame obsession bzgl "heritage" und "blood" haben. Naja wenn man selbst keine Geschichte & Kultur hat raubt man eben die eines anderen Volkes.
Very interesting. The Flag you designed is awesome. God bless America 🇩🇪🇺🇸 Perhaps the city of Bismarck in North Dakota would have been interesting to mention.
Interesting as always Masaman. I grew up in southern Minnesota, USA where the town of New Ulm still has the German feel. Integration often meant getting the Norwegians, Germans and Swedes to agree on projects. I have traveled in the Dakotas and you will often here a strong German accent.
I grew up 50 miles away in SW Minnesota and have visited many times. A couple of the old breweries have changed hands and names I believe. My parent would go up for the Polkafest many years.
Gareth Oberman please just shut up you racist fuck, it's starting to become embarrassing for these regions to have people like you representing them...
I am from southern Germany and had worked and studied in MN for one year. New Ulm is indeed still very German, it has a strong South German (Bavarian-Swabian) touch whereas PA has its own German twist based on a Palatinate German foundation. What was not mentioned is that there are more groups like the Amish: the Hutterites and Mennonites all over the Plains. They still carry on their cultures and dialects.
Those with German last names or last names in German in US troops were Jewish Americans, not ethnically German descendants. Goldberg and Goldstein, Cohen are not real German last names (they are in German language but were coined by Jewish citizens). The German Empire, the Germanic Confederation or the older Roman-German Empire just like the Austrian and Spanish Empires never allowed Jewish citizens to get their national surnames. In Spain, Jewish last names were given from parts of the body or animals, in Austria mostly parts of animals (mostly horses), in Germany (during all the transformations the country had) those of Jewish ancestry got surnames associated to animals like in Austria but also with precious metals like gold or money mixed with the words mountain and stone (stein and berg) as suffixes. Those who really got a few German surnames like Hoffmann either by interbreeding or by buying the name were deported during Hitler's government, although most of them had abandoned Germany before to Britain, France, the US, Argentina, Mexico and many other nations.
Giovanni Ching Autheman you contradict yourself in your comment. Also today lots of Americans still have German names or German names that have been 'Anglofied'
+ koukimontza -- What's forgotten is that many Germans left Germany, beginning in the 1840s, when the Prussians began to restrict the ability of religious groups -- Lutherans, Catholics, etc. -- to run their own affairs. German Protestants and Catholics over the coming decades came to the United States to found communities -- innovative utopian ones, in some instances, as well as major hospitals and universities -- because their actions were increasingly proscribed at home. Add this fact to the Amish phenomenon, the many other German separatist sects -- the Harmonists, Moravians, etc. -- and what you have are Germans valuing peace above all else. Unfortunately, their homeland chose to follow a different path.
The majority of my extended family is still Amish. I'm from Ohio and have Swiss and German ancestry. My last name is Kline which comes from the German name Klein
Come up to Saskatchewan in Canada and meet some German Canadians too including myself! A lot of Germans around here and a lot of the little farming towns have Lutheran and Catholic churches. The cemeteries, phone books, and farm entrance signs all have tons of German surnames. From Aschenbrenner to Ziegler, we have them all haha.
If you do? Stop in Pennsylvania. A lot of German history here. The town of Bethlehem PA still ligjts a huge advent candle every Sunday leading up to Christmas. Tschuss!
I think the phenomenon of tatars deserve to be explained in a separated video, Kazan tatars, Crimean tatars, Lithuanian tatars.. Tatars influence in Russian nation, famous Russians and noble with Tatar roots
Well, if we speak of ancestry than the british monarch is from a german family since 1714 when George I. of House Hannover became king. Victoria was the last of that House. But the "germanness" continues through her husband who was of House Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Sure, they changed the name to Windsor during WW1, but guess what: That House would dynastically end when Elizabeth II. dies (I know that the Brits decided to just call it Windsor forever, thats not the point), as her husband is of German decent as well: House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. You can argue with diluted blood all you want: The Hun reigns in Buckingham Palace, always! :-D
My grandpa didn't have to fight in the war because of his children, but told me that he was grateful for many reasons, one of those reasons was because all of his family was in Germany
Sebonaut - well, I've seen a lot of Germany. In its small complex landscape it figures out (to me) as the most beautiful and richly varied country compared to others. Followed by Scotland (my impression). The big surprise one will notice is the proof of so much diversity on clothing styles, food (! you will go insane how delicious and healthy - even the Sauerkraut!), original languages which cover the whole space of middle Europe from the Netherlands to the Baltics from the northern parts of now Italy into the region of southern Denmark (and if you're not awoken pretty much, you won't understand most of them!). Yes, perhaps so many American people fell in love with Bavaria, you surely know enough people who took lots of photographs of their beautiful girls ...
I imagine its because the Bavarian Oktoberfest tradition made that particular German culture the most appealing to Americans who wanted to "celebrate their heritage".
Cute Urchiens The sauerkraut is a lie! I ate sauerkraut maybe 20 times in my life. More common (in bavaria at least) is red cabbage as garnish. Though the absolute top food in germany is not sauerkraut, brezels or sausages but bread. Germany is a bread country first and foremost. Also after every germans opinion german bread is the best bread in the world.
I'm very Ethnicly German with very little Slav and Nordic blood. My Grandmother (technically Great Grandmother, long story) left Germany quite a few years post war because of some personal reasons and came here and met my grandfather. I don't speak very much German but being raised around my grandmother I became defacto translater if my Grandfather isn't around because of her very think accent.
Very disappointed by this comment section Mason. It's just Blacks hating on Whites. Whites hating on Mestizos. Mestizos hating on Blacks. and Asians just bein' Asians. We should all be more like the Asians.
Don't get English confused with British. There may be less Americans who identify with English heritage than Germany but if you include Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish, e.g. British I'm sure that more would consider themselves of British descent.
Agreed. Proud of my Scots-Irish, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh descent. It isn't polite to mention English heritage. ;-) Also German and Huguenot descent, though some of the German descent is from Alsace so I don't how that's supposed to be handled. (It was in Germany when they left!) And the genetics test claims small amounts of Swedish, Finnish, Dutch and Iberian, with just a tiny smidgen of North African to make me exotic.
@Arsinek White heritage is a very new concept actually. White and black were created to distinguish beween slaves in America. Before the 16th century "white" and "black" didnt exist. White isnt an ethnicity therefore most people dont really take pride in it. On the other hand a ton of people take pride in their ethnic history. The idea that there aren't proud German-Americans, Italian-Americans, Scot-Irish-Americans, etc is quite ignorant.
Arsinek, Kyle S.! Just go and find Yourself a third of Your kind, put him on Your shoulders to change a bulb in Your living-room. Walk clockwise first to take the old one out, then the other way!
@@PiousMoltar Actually its not. In the US, slaves did not have records kept so many knew nothing of their heritage and background. Because its human nature to want a culture, African-Americans came together to form a new culture that was an amalgamation of some African cultural aspects that survived slavery and new aspects. The black culture in the US is actually something unique to the states. Also since African-Americans were so heavily prejudiced against, there was a need to look out for one another; there was a shared experience between people of African heritage in the US more so than those of European heritage. To this day most "black"-Americans have no idea where there ancestors are from. So as black in the US became a culture and arguably a new people group (because all of the intermarriage between slaves of different African ethnicities and also with a lot of white DNA also mixed in) white somewhat remained simply an indicator of light skin color. Obviously Amercan Whites are mixed up now as well and not exactly the same as their immigrant ancestors but they often still have a better understanding of their cultural background. The idea of white people being proud of their "whiteness" is a recent phenomenon and is often dismissed as being proud simply of your skin color rather than culture and heritage. This is why some think its racist. Of course American whites have definitely developed a culture seperate of Europe but we simply view that now as being "American". One of the main points of division today is that whites often feel more tied to their "American" culture while some blacks feel more tied to "black"culture. This is part of the reason there is such a divide on the NFL Anthem issue.
I have an interesting mix of Irish, German, and Polish ancestry. And that's just the parts I know. I identify as American, but I also find comfort in my heritage and I love how so many people in the USA have such an interesting look on heritage.
That is common! Apparently Irish, German, Poles, and Italians intermarry so much in the US (especially in the northeast & midwest) they argued in the 90s that we’re forming our own ethnic group.
My dad used to always tell me and my brother that we were German when we were kids but it turns out that we were 3/4 Scots Irish and about 1/4 English.
The funny thing is that many scotch Irish are actually English. Scotch Irish simply meaning those who moved from the borderlands of England and Scotland to Ulster (Northern Ireland) so you might be 4/4 English 😀
Most of my family was from southern Scotland before they were in Ulster but there was a small English admixture due to the mixing with the Borderlanders.
4:30 The Amish are NOT a snapshot of 19th century German society - they wee untypical for Germany. Industrial revolution hit Germany as well and many people were not doing well - so trying to make a living elsewhere was a thing (and Germans tended to be well trained in the professions - more than other nations). That is an incentive to leave - an experience craftsman could hope to make it in the new world. The fundamentalism of the Amish was the reason why they LEFT Germany. Legal ! religious freedom was granted - but fundamentalism was not very much appreciated althoug the church then had an important role. The Amish were so fundamentalistic that they did not fit in very well with German society - so they headed for the "new country" - to do their thing undisturbe there..
Many of the Amish are descendants of what is known as the VolgaDeutsch ... the German speakers that Russian Empress Katherine the Great enticed into Russia.
@@richh1576 That would be the Plattdeutsch speaking German - Americans, Canadians, etc. Pennsylvania Germans are from Southwestern Germany/Switzerland/Alsatian France.
@@rafaelramos441 I live in an area where the amish are present. I understand Plattdeutsch (can speak fluent Hochdeutsch). I will reiterate that many of the Amish / Volga Deutsch came to Pennsylvania prior to WWII, and yes they did also speak Plattdeutsch. My Ancestry/Heritage is Schwabisch ... and with some Donau Schwaben.
I am a german: It would be nice if more americans are interested for their german heritage and come to visit germany and europe. There are so much stereotypes. We have to listen to each other before it is to late.
Viele weiße Amerikaner sind sich bewusst, dass sie deutsche Wurzeln haben. Jedoch juckt es sie relativ wenig, da sie der Auffassung sind, dass Amerika besser ist. Entschuldigung für mein schlechtes Deutsch, ich spreche es kaum zuhause.
Hallo Lukas, Dein Deutsch ist Klasse! Gerade weil viele Amerikaner so elitär denken, wäre es schön wenn sie andere Länder besuchen würden. Mit Entsetzen habe ich festgestellt, dass für manche Amerikaner "European" zu einem Schimpfwort geworden ist. Wir Deutsche haben viele Urlaubstage und daher sind wir viel unterwegs auf dem Globus. Leider ist Hr. Trump ja auch ein Deutscher. Sein Image bei uns ist sehr sehr schlecht.
Oh sorry if you have experienced this - have you visited germany? Of course you are not germans - you are americans now - but you have a german heritage. In wich region have your ancestors lived?
So kind of a sad story you lost the mailadress. East Prussia was once the core of germany now it isn't germany any more. We lost it after WWII. Many of the population flew to west-germany and now living here. You should visit Europe - it is your root and an important root of your country. In the last decades we moved in different directions but this is no reason to look down an an american as a person. we wer great admirers for USA after WW II - this changed totally in the last year - know 80 Percent of the germans dislike Trump despite he is also from german heritage. Many see your government as a risk and as dangerous as putin.
I am so grateful for finding your work; amazed at the depth of knowledge and cautionary approach; pleased that the German nation gets recognition it deserves, and overwhelmed by all I learned! Heartfelt greetings from an Old European.
Errr nope. Would've been French. There was a vote after the revolution and IIRC, the vote between French and English was very close. Those who preferred French did so because it was the Lingua Franca of the time and, naturally, to piss off the Brits.
_There was an act in the USA that almost made German the official langauge of the USA but it didn't happen by one vote_ An urban legend, nothing more. That thing concerned whether pieces of legislation would be published in German *alongside* English. At no point did anybody suggest that German _replace_ English as official language of the Union. If you want to build a history channel, don't just mindlessly repeat rumors that have been spreading for quite some time now.
I was referring to the language in which all of the official legislation was published in, which has always been English and English only. And I repeat: at no point was German ever considered to *replace* English in this role. The furthest they got with it was to make it an auxiliary language for the migrants who had yet to learn English but even that didn't come through. EDIT: I just watched the video you refer to and I quote: _So no: German was __*__never_*_ going to be the official language of the United and neither was English or any other language._ Which still doesn't change the fact that English was the conventional mode of communication and one all legislation was printed in but regardless even that, let's just quote your first comment: _There was an act in the USA that almost made German the official langauge of the USA but it didn't happen by one vote_ So please, next time understand your own sources before citing them.
Great video. German culture has left its mark on many American traditions, such as parades and hotdogs. The German experience is a testament of how multicultural this country has been, and how state sponsored repression, rather than organic homogenization, has been the defining force exerting the most damage on this diversity.
Hot dogs weren't always called hot dogs. The typical hot dog is a Frankfurter style sausage, and eating them on 4th of July following some type of parade was a direct influence of the Volksfest which are very typical in Germany, and contrast with earlier American/English banquet style of celebration. And dude, geh nach Deutschland, und, stimmt, werden sie dir sagen dass ein Hot Dog etwas amerikanisch ist, aber es hat deutsche Ursprünge. Sehr spannend!
Ask people of the time that and they will disagree. I know this might seem strange given the "white" construct that's been furthered since Victorian times. Actually, before this even Catholics were considered aliens. And German Catholics, mega aliens? Ask Benjamin Franklin, and you'll read in his comments of the day how hard he thought the Germans were ever going to be able to live side by side the Anglos and Irish (which were also considered weird). Moreover, "compatible from a biological perspective" is a non-sense phrase given the strong mixing throughout history of peoples that looked both similar and less similar (India, Europe, Latin America, Africa, etc).
You sound like a bot, incapable of understanding basic language. It's a free country where I live, so I'll post in whatever language I feel like. Have a nice day, and may the Lord bless you with infinite wisdom so you may one day use a drop of it on the world around you.
I'm sorry but your punctuation is horrible, and your capacity to read and understand English even worse. Take your suggestions and use them for yourself. As for myself, English is one of my first languages. I have two higher education degrees from top schools in the U.S., and, yes, I even passed AP English in high school, in which I ranked in the top 1%. Of course, I always excelled in English, and I was always in the school spelling bee during grade school. So please, kindly, take your semi literate half-brain-in-a-brain to an MRI expert and take advice from a sixth grade English school teacher to point out to you to not give English language advice. Have a nice day, and a happy 2018!
My great-grandparents taught German and Lutheran dogma in a separate school, one mile down the road from the public school. My Grandmother and father walked that mile every afternoon. Separation of Church and State.
@@MrHeidiHigh except for all of europe that has blue eyes besides germans. Slavs and celts blue and green eyes is the norm you aren't special. Im half german, im also half scottish and my german half has hazel eyes. So...
That's not true. Ben Affleck look like a typical white American man in my opinion but he looks more like Irish, French or Spanish than German or Scandinavian. Anne Hathaway look like a typical white American woman (her face is very American from my point of view) but she look more like French, Spanish, Portuguese than German. American people as Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst looks pretty German. Blake Lively looks more like Scandinavian than German, Dutch, British/Irish. Evan Rachel Wood, Katy Perry, Reese Witherspoon, Téa Leoni looks British/Irish. In other words, its depends.
Germanic identity is not so much about culture, ethnicity or even language, but about ethos. That is why they have no trouble integrating and even assimilating without a great sense of loss. Cultural identity does not really compete with ethical identity. From Tolkien*s "The Shire" to "as American as motherhood and Apple Pie" 50s culture to Biergartens/Oktoberfest, it is all the same thing really. Same ethical substance in different cultrual vehicles. Local community, decency, work ethic, and some degree of emotional repression seems to be the chief components of the cocktail to me.
I have so many German ancestors my great grandparents immigrated to America in1925 I am only a bit Irish but I take pride in my German heritage Lang Lebe das Vaterland I love you all my German brothers
@@someguyinplace Bitte vorsichtig sein und bleibt alle gesund! Lets eliminate that virus, and then all countries evaluate again who are our friends, and our relationships to dictatorial regimes.
What's ironic is that Argentina's Italian immigration is almost parallel to that of America's German immigration. Argentina was founded by a Latin European country (Spain), but its population has predominantly roots to another Latin European country (Italy). Similarly, the US was founded by a Germanic European country (England), but its white population predominantly comes from another Germanic European country (Germany). Fun fact, the country with the third highest German immigrant population is Argentina, and the country with the third highest Italian immigrant population is the US. Anyway, in some cases you can even see how the influence of these immigrant groups overshadow their colonizers' influence. American food has a lot of German influence, as seen through the hot dog and hamburger, two American classics. Argentineans also consume a lot of Italian dishes like milanesa, pizza and pastas. In a way, Argentina was to South America, what the US is to North America. Both were the lands of opportunities, though one clearly went south (no pun intended), very much like their European counterpart. I also notice a parallel between Germany and Italy. Italy is to the Latin and Catholic world what Germany is to the Germanic and Protestant world. Catholicism was officialized in what is present-day Italy, and the Protestant Reformation started in present-day Germany. Both the terms Germanic and Italic are used to describe two linguistic branches in the Indo-European family. Also, both Germany and Italy were highly defragmentalized territories, ruled by multiples kingdoms, duchies and counties, before unifying fairly recently in the 1800s. Because of that, they were late comers in the colonial race, hence why they only got leftover colonies in Africa. Both were allies in WWII as well. Hitler wanted to create the Third Reich (First Reich was the HRE and Second Reich was Prussia), while Mussolini wanted to revive the Roman Empire, by ruling the entire Mediterranean. Hitler wanted to rename Germany's capital Berlin to Germania, so that it becomes to the Germanic world what Italy's capital Rome became to the Romance world.
I live in Maryland and I've met probably hundreds of people who claim German ancestry but only 2 other people who actually speak the language. Ist doch echt schade :/
Ich wohne in Illinois und kann Deutsch sprechen. Seit 2014 habe ich in der Schule und bei Internet Deutsch gelernt und nächstes Jahr gehe ich nacht Deutschland und Österreich. Meine Oma wohnte im Südwestminnesota und ihre Eltern haben Deutsch gesprochen. Mein Onkel spricht etwas Deutsch, aber ich bin die erste, seit meine Urgroßeltern, die deutsch sprechen kann.
Sehr Gut! I always love hearing my Oma pronouncing "W" words in Eng as "V". And my Opa sounds completely American. It's like he wasn't even born in Deutschland LOL. I can trace my German ancestry back to the 10th century (:
“Americans make very poor Germans, but Germans make very good Americans...perhaps the best”
-Henry Miller
But not so good at spelling...
you have 100% right about this detail George Washington come from great Britain before American revolution🇺🇸🇬🇧
@@ludvigkhan1458 as did the vast majority of patriots
Germans usher in development and progress wherever they go
@@ludvigkhan1458 Anglo Saxon he was....they come from where? Northern Germany
The capital of North Dakota is Bismarck. That's about as German as it gets. The culture is still very strong here.
You know what Bismarck said about the germans? "They re the only xenophile people in the world he knows". Dotn wonder when new germans will enter your country as refugees in the future. Guess this will come.
Bismark was named by the Northern Pacific Railroad to try to get him to invest and to attract Germans.
Greetings to North Dakota from Germany.
@@MasterBlaster220 Blödsinn! We enter the United States for holidays and shopping.
For what i know,Jacobs is a Dutch/Belgium name.
A coffee brander over here,is Jacobs.
Imagine how many relativies killed each other during war without knowing they are family of the same heritage.
In Brazil so many italian descendents were fight against Italy in WW2
Nazism was deep state to destroy German America
No more brother wars!!!!
So sad 😥
Yeah I live in Utah and I went to the police station for fingerprints for work and on the wall they had the fingerprints of a serial killer that was German-American with a harsh German mother but he sympathized with the nazi movement so what he target mix race couples mostly lucky they caught him
But yeah it’s quit interesting to think about anyway that what this made me think about
Toller Beitrag! Ich bin hier geboren, also in den USA. Mein Urgrossvater kam schon 1863 aus Arzberg im Fichtelgebirge hier an. Ich bin also in der 4. Generation und pfege hier immer noch einen deutschen Lebensstil. Alles Gute, Leutchen!
Schön zu hören. Mein kompletter familiärer Stammbaum stammt ebenfalls aus Deutschland, und das auch seit Langem!!
Schön zu sehen . Lebe und deutschland und habe alles verstanden was du gesagt hast
schöne Grüße aus Deutschland leude 🇩🇪 🇺🇸
Was genau ist ein deutscher Lebensstil? Kannst du das bitte erklären? Details, danke.
@@maxkopfraumpoops Currywurst in der Mittagspause, dann 18:30 Sportschau gucken.
Capital of Kentucky is Frankfurt, North Dakota Capital is Bismarck
Okay thats pretty cool :D
@marios gianopoulos soon
The spelling is Frankfort, and if you Wikipedia this, it turns out not to be German-related. Bismarck definitely is!
wow that f*cking cool and honouring. thanks for the enlightment.
@@gregoryh3270 It's supposed to be not German related? I don't believe it a second. In the dialect of the city of Frankfurt (on the Main) they call their own city Frankfort and themselves Frankforter. On google maps I've a list of more than hundred places in the USA, Canada, Mexico and Brazil where cities and villages have German names.
The Pennsylvania Dutch are called Dutch because the English speaking people misinterpeted "Deutsch"
JR G it's just weird that dutch is called dutch and not netherlandish or something
Holy Roman Empire 'dutch is a northern german dialect' 😂 don't say this to dutch people if you don't want dutch people to hate you
Actually they called them ''dutch'', because at that time, there was no united nation of germany. They called em ''dutch'', because they we're all taking the ferry from amsterdam or rotterdam, but most of pennsylvanian dutch people are as a matter of fact from the rheinland pfalz, saarland, hessen and franconian region :)
@Holy Roman Empire In a way yeah, we were one during the Holy Roman Empire, then we separated in 1648, although at the time there was no common language as every village had its own dialect. It wasn't until the reformation when Bibles were printed in the common tongue that national languages came around. Modern Dutch is based on the accent from Holland, the richest province.
Oh, and we dropped the cases! You should try it too neighbor!
@Holy Roman Empire according to the British we (the Dutch) are civilized Germans......
well anglo saxon are from germany.. so that makes english also germanic
same france from Franks germanic tribe..even Katharine the Great of Russia was a German lols
@@user-dl1xz3mj3i, • Not really: the French are Celts (+Romans and Germanics).
• So many russian monarchs were Germans...
@@adamthetired9319 French are germanic franks and yes catherine the Great was German but as u know Russia have mongols too .
@@user-dl1xz3mj3i, the Eastern part of France was/is Germanic, and even with that the Franks didn't replace the native population. They were the rulers, though. I am not sure if I am right on that, but Wikipedia says, - I know it is not the best source, but still:
"Historically the heritage of the French people is mostly of Celtic and Roman origin, descending from the ancient and medieval populations of Gauls, Ligures, Latins, Iberians, and to a lesser extent, Germanic people such as Franks, Alamansand Norsemen."
@@adamthetired9319 yes frank gauls ..not Roman Empire but HRE!
As a German, all the positive comments make me feel good. Gettings from Bavaria 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸
Grüße aus Amerika. Meine Familie kommt aus Rhineland-Pfalz!🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇩🇪
@@funnygramcompilation903 nice dass ihr noch deutsch spricht 👍🇩🇪🇺🇸
I’m an American (Hispanic with French & Spanish ancestry), but I’m fascinated by Bavaria. And I’ve been learning some languages as of recent and one of them is German. I really love learning about other cultures & places & languages.
Servus! Wie geht es dir?
@@MienemLeben gut dir?
Isn't ironic that in WW2 the supreme commander of the Allied Forces in Europe and head of the invasion of Germany was Eisenhower, a Pennsylvania Dutch?
Brothers wars
Pennsylvania German.
"Eisenhower" is the Anglicization of "Eisenhauer" familly name coming from Saarland Germany.
It comes from "Esels ohren" in German. It means "Donkey Ears".
So the West German armies were defeated by an American general of German descent.
Germans have been fighting Germans for centuries.
And something like 43 us presidents are british americans
@GasGodLuigi immigration has been the US's greatest power. We are a nation of immigrants who came here with nothing and worked for everything. Now your complaining about people coming here with nothing. You ignorant ass.
My Family is from Germany...This makes me proud ♡
As u should be my Lady!
@@793Force Gluckliches Neu Jahr from a loud and proud Germanophile!!!
Greetings Out Germany 🇩🇪🇩🇪.
If German Americans want to know where their ancestors came from, watch this video.
ruclips.net/video/hF81Y045MnM/видео.html
Greets from Germany
Rhaina Inge stfu GO BACK TO GERMANY
The flag you designed looks amazing.
Beautiful too!♡
Leave Blank he is just saying he loves the flag you don’t need to be a bitch about it
@@thegermanaustrianreich8273"The German Austrian Reich" what's that supposed to mean if you don't mind me asking?
Hannah G why do you wanna know so bad if I may asked
@@thegermanaustrianreich8273 I'm German, so I'm interested.
This is an amazing video on German ancestry in America! I am (What I consider as) Dutch/German-American. My moms side was 100% Dutch, her parents came to America in the 1950s for 'The American Dream' after surviving WWII. My family comes from the German area of central Texas from my dads side. My Grandfather was 100% Deutsch, as well as his family members, but my Grandmother was an entire mix. I am told I have German relatives out there that I do not know about. Apparently my Great Grandparents on my Dads side could speak Deutsch fluently, but my Grandfather and Dad never picked it up. My family also dropped speaking Deutsch after WWII. My German Grandfather spoke of a prince that came from a German Kingdom who had the last name of Friesenhahn, whom settled in Texas before it was a state, along with other Friesenhahn's. That is the reason why my last name on my Dads side was never 'Americanized'. If you happen to go to Houston Texas area, you will hopefully see lots of Friesenhahn's. My family's history with Religion is a bit different than to most German-Americans. As you where saying, they had a few different faiths, notably; Protestant. Considering my German ancestry, the Germans in Texas (Im told) where primarily Catholic Christians compared to around the country. Im currently learning Deutsch and am proud about my Heritage despite what they still say. I have to say, the oppression of German Americans after and during the World Wars needs to be known about, and not shut up by the main stream media. Danke fur ein wunderschones video! Haben ein guten tag, und Gott segne! :D
wunderschönes Video. USA misses the ö, the ä, the ü
@@erwinklawuttke5572 Sorry, we speak just fine without those extra letters. English is hard enough to spell correctly with out extra letters.
Ein wunderschöner Beitrag! Freundliche Grüsse aus Brasilien!
aahh you should learn Dutch instead!! since you are 50% Dutch and just 25% German as I understand it
Since your last name is Friesenhahn, your ancestors might come from the very north of Germany. Near to the Dutch and Danish Border! The people from this area are called "Friesen" and Hahn means rooster btw
Much of American traditions are based on German traditions as well as others from UK, Ireland and Netherlands. My family is swiss/german.
Actually there are more Americans of English ancesty than German.
Many of the English immigrants identify as "Americans", since they've been in the US for hundreds of years.
All this fus started in 1980 Census adopting multiply ancestry .Germans, italians doubled and British diminished .There are 3 more Times in number British + lrish americans than germans .Comparing their contribuitions in USA Life (except in economic field ) is rediculious .40 Presidents Vs 3 .English founded Usa ,irish and scotish made It
great , germans pushed the economiy higher .
@@1158supersiri I hear the South is mostly British descent, the Notheast is Irish descent save for Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine which are more English, and Pennsylvania and the Midwest are more German descent, with Minnesota also having lot of Scandinavian.
There is no so called american traditions
German american 49 million
English american 24 million
There was a time German was one of the most widely spoken languages in the USA
Anabaptists keep High German and Americas German dialect(Pennsylvania Dutch) alive. 3.5 million speakers. Then there are foreign born Germans here and their kids.
There was a time where all scientist and students had to learn German, because of the greatest biologists and chemists in the world like Humboldt ...
After the Revolution Congress actually took a vote on what the official language of the United States would be German or English
Nowadays, the English language in the USA is repressed by Spanish.
My ancestors were among that group
I have German ancestry on my mother’s side, while my dad is from Africa. A few of my relatives have told me stories of German society in America. I was told of the discrimination that they faced during the First World War. My great grandmother, her father was a minister of a German church in Ogden, Utah. He would go and visit inmates who were incarcerated during the war on being falsely accused of spying because they spoke German in public. When he visited the prison, a woman asked him to give a loved one a letter, which he agreed to do. The letter was written in German and the guards accused him of sending a hidden message. He was found locked up in the prison for a few weeks without the family knowing what happened to him. While my great grandmother was an adult and had a teaching career, her father decided to move to Chicago after the incident. I probably didn’t explain it so well but I wanted to share part of my German family’s history.
Thank you interesting people's paths
My family “Americanized” their surname so they wouldn’t be suspected as German spies
English people got shit on during the war of independence (loyalists)
Irish, Italians, Polish and other catholic immigrants got shit on because of religion
Germans and Japanese got shit on for their nationalities.
African Americans got shit on because of their skin tone
The history of America is basically different major ethnic groups dunking each other
If u don’t like it…go back to Germany…they were treated like shit during WW1 because they were literally supporting the nazis..stop the cap…they gave y’all all that public land via homestead act anyway…so u got something for nothing…America gained nothing with ur arrival bud…get off ur high horse
Utah is Englishmen State
As a Deutsch-Americaner who has just recently started discovering my heritage, I really appreciate people like yourself who help spread the word. It's sad that we've lost our national identity, but I'm glad that it wasn't forgotten.
That's a good stance. Pride is silent and attractive. It leaves all the noise and blatancy to the vain ones.
In Germany we are slowly losing our identity too, you are not alone brothers
Fun fact: German-Americans were first to officially oppose slavery
yes that's really true. has to do with the fact that most immigrants from Germany were themselves slaves to their princes and nobility.
Would make sense. Bismarck also declared slavery illegal in the colonies of the european states at the "Kongo Konforenz" in 1884.
Пысық Times sane with the nords
D K Thats sounds more like it.
Pretty sure the slaves did first my guy and they were over 90% American born.
Germans brought beer brewing technology to America....you gotta love them....prost...
there are also many old German families in Kentucky and the Virginians they built stills and made what would eventual become today's Kentucky whiskey
beer comes from ancien sumeria
Yeah, but what you have here one cannot call beer ;) Just joking. You’re welcome!
Unfortunately Pearl beer was one of them.
Don't forget the rocket science.
It is important to keep in mind, though, that at the height of German immigration to the United States in the early 19th century, there was no unified German nation or country. Instead what is now Germany was a quilt of several kingdoms, dukedoms, countys etc. with different laws, currencies, flags etc. A person coming to the US at that time would probably not even identify him- or herself as "German", but rather as Prussian, Bavarian, Hessian etc. and someone from the Lower Rhine region (where I live) for example would probably feel a much closer connection to someone coming from the Netherlands than from Bavaria (even linguistically btw, even today, it is easier for me to understand the Dutch language than any of the Southern dialects).
Now, what you wrote is pretty much a description of modern day pride in Germany also. What you need to take into account is that many "Germans" that immigrated did so because of religious prosecution and the failed attempt to form a unified (democratic) German state. So in all likelihood, allot of the immigrants where actually fellows that wanted a unified Germany and identified as Germans for that matter but were extremely disappointed and left "Germany" because it failed to unify.
MissyLaMotte I’m Dutch myself, and you guys always understand me surprisingly well. I do not live near the rhine, but I do live near the German border in the North (Groningen-Leer/Bremen), and everytime I’m there and need help: somebody starts speaking a mixture of Dutch and German to me, and are able to understand me perfectly fine when I speak Dutch to them.
It’s really amazing how different yet so similar our languages are!
in the beginning of the 19th century there was no modern state called Germany but there has been a German people and identity. so trust me, they all considered themselves German and were called like that by others. the beginning of German identity goes back to the high middle ages and even the holy roman empire was colloquially referred to as Germany since the 16th century.
CrazyTraffic True, although, the people from the rhineland have been under dutch rule briefly multiple times, and are quite closely situated to them. So I wouldn’t be surprised if they called themselves Dutch tho. Especially since they sailed with the Dutch West Indies Company.
@@roy_hks "dutch" derives from "deutsch" aka german. the dutch were considered germans at least until their independence in the 16/17th century and they even continued to call themselves (neder-)duits afterwards. the english term "dutch" was used until the 16th century for all german-speaking folks (including those in the netherlands). also, the rhineland was hardly ever under any dutch rule (i'm from cologne) but some eastern rhenish regions were in fact close to dutch affairs and culture. so no need for any rhinlander to call himself "dutch" when the dutch called themselves duits. during these times the dutch were considered a german variant just like the swiss-germans who happened to live in an independent state.
English are Anglo-saxon
Anglo-Saxons come Germany
German,English, Dutch,Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Austrian, icelandic, Swiss =Germanic Peoples
Thats why they all blended together relatively easily in the New World. All the deacendants of the Goths
@wong Kuto the north?
Belgique,luxemburg, Austria,Alsace. Loraine in France
Amazouz Djamel We all know that Alsace Lorraine is German in our hearts
I try tell people that and they just don't understand
Wisconsin!
I'm 75% German, 12.5% Swedish, and 12.5% Danish.
Jäger =100% German
Widukind and in dutch it is “jager” pretty similar
Ik kan ook een beetje Nederlands spreken ;) Im 25% Schlesisch; 25% Siebenbürgisch; 25% Hesse; 25% Friese =100% Deutsch
PrussianJæger is your profile pic the flag of fascist Estonia?
GOOD BOY!!! ;-)
My father's ancestors came from the German-Dutch border and Prussia. Since my Mother's Italian heritage includes Lombards, some German comes from there, also.
@Philip Voerding
effectively the name Lombardia (northern italian region) derives from Longobardi, a german tribe who invaded Italy in the 6th century AD, after the downfall of western roman empire.
Most of the German emigrants to the USA came from the Palatinate and the Duchy of Nassau. (Today Rhineland-Palatinate.)
My mothers side of my family came from southern Italy/Sicily, and my fathers side came from lower Austria and bavaria
I'm from western Minnesota where most people are of mostly German, Norwegian or Swedish decent. Names ending in 'son' or 'sen' are very common.
luke lee that also common in England , since the anglo Saxon did that and also surname with ending in -sen is high in Yorkshire where the viking colonised
Hi, Luke, I am from Eastern Minnesota and it is very similar in my town. German, Norwegian, Swedish and Irish are the most common.
luke lee those are best surnames imo
Woke American I have no reason to think surnames of one linguistic origin are any better than any others.
luke lee I am from the twin cities
Though it is fast disappearing, you can still hear the local dialect of German spoken in Texas. It is its own dialect. Completely separate and distinct from any spoken in Europe today. You have to go to places like new Braunfels and Fredericksburg to hear it. But, you still find it from time to time.
i am of Irish,English, Cornish and German descent. I am proud of all of them and love the German language.Vielen dank fur dieses video!
So your mostly of British Isles origin
You are Celtic/Germanic
Well, many English are of German decent . In fact, if you are English and can trace your roots back to the 10th century; you almost certainly are in fact German.
how?
@u.s old glory Most of Europe has germanic routes, doesn't make them the same as Germans, ethnic groups split up.
@@vulgrim909 Do you know what the split is? Like what's the difference between German roots and being ethnically German.
@@char08fal As i understand it, when groups split from each other they start to develop culturally different and ethnically different over time, the more time they are away from each other, the less connected they are, if you want to learn specifically you could always just research it, but like swedes, people from denmark and germany all share relation with each other but none ethnically identify as the same, they all hate each other.
So its weird trying to group anyone who shares germanic routes as German.
@@vulgrim909 Ohhh gotcha. That's funny because Ancestry lumps them all as "Germanic Europe" but some other sites like MyHeritage and FTDNA separate them out more.
I think it's fair to say a lot of Americans of German ancestry have totally forgot and don't acknowledge their backgrounds
Creepy Closet it wasn't PC after the great war
oh no your very wrong,a lot of Americans acknowledge their backrounds
(and they wont stop mentioning it...)
They acknowledge it now, but not during the two world wars
Lol what Its the opposite
Creepy Closet because we are Americans already.
Thank you German Americans for beer, hamburgers, hotdogs, Christmas trees, and kindergarten!
Ketchup and Trump*
Chirstmas trees are roman, from the holiday of saturnalia.
Thx. Even I as a german say that, the Hamburgers and Hotdogs came back to Germany, and everybody likes them :-)
And thanks for that Xmas song silent night and snow white
German Americans invented everything else too, like literally every invention is by German Americans
It‘s a shame, that these americans with german ancestors are probably prouder of their heritage, than germans born in Germany.
@James Smith most Germans in Germany have become ethnomasochists on the level of Swedes
@James Smith Germans typically associate their pride with their respective ethnic backgrounds and countries they are from (Saxon, Thuringian, Hessian, Bavarian, Phalian and so on). There's allot of bad connotation to overall German Pride due to Hitler. Unfortunately that has gone as far that the old-Germanic branch of tradition nearly went extinct. You'll barely find towns where they celebrate runes or pagan culture predating the christian era.
Exactly although there are always Germans that even going out recently will never forget their origins and the pride of it as politicians intend to do.
He dont know what he said, think he means himself. Im a proud Hesse !
@@BroadwayRonMexico wrong. Im 20 years old with ashblond hair, moonlight blue eyes, trained body and 191 cm tall. Even my face features are typical german -> high cheeks etc. My IQ is located by 131. And i do know that Ive to thank my genes for all of this. Im proud of our history, inventions, language and our places which looks almost like typical locations in a fairytale. You do mean the north of germany which already lost much of its culture and identity like berlin. But i can state that "Berliners" tend to be leftists because of the influlence of communism in the past and the today cultural marxism. Berlin isnt that what it was once 100 years ago. Many buildings were destoryed in WW2 and not rebuilded again. Its nearly a leftists shithole which much arabic or turkish family clans. Just as disgusting as Hamburg or Bremen.
Did you know that a German tribe called the Anglo-Saxons had a major impact on England?
Nowhere near as much as the celts, romans and vikings
@@davehoward22 Is this meant to be a joke?
There was no Germanic tribe called "Anglo-Saxons". There were two tribes called "Angles" and "Saxons".
@@bn56would no. There's twice more people have Celtic blood in England then Ireland Scotland Wales combined for instance... since DNA testing came about Anglo-Saxon blood isn't nearly as prevalent as thought to be
@@davehoward22 nonsense ...
I live in Wisconsin and yes, most people around here have at least some German ancestry. There are also a lot of Norwegians in my neck of the woods. And there are tons of Amish near my home (very nice people). I have a bit of German ancestry, I think my great grandfather was half German, but most of my ancestors are Eastern European or Russian.
Could be from Eesti or Soumi :)
Perfect Mixture....
You pretty. 😍
Born and raised in WI. German/Polish!
@@SHOREHILLEYEWEAR Suomi*
Thank you!!
PA Dutch, (12 Generation German in the US). Born in Williamsport, PA. but Family from Northumberland, Berks and Bucks County!
Long live the German’s!
Germans had built USA big, strong and beautiful.
Nope all the foreigner had build usa
Deswegen die national Sprache ist Englische den?
The slaves
@@alanvt1 nope
@@Lando-kx6so no
When you realise that exist more German than Amerikan in the US.
Aufstieg↗️ "Stonks"
😂
I mean 80 percent of the USA are Europeans.
I think "Amerikan" could be a term for German-Americans.
WWSO- There are no "Americans" in US, they are settler/invaders, calling them sleves "white"
@@ngonea americans are people who live in america
I am pleased to be living inside a State Of German heritage. I was born at Ulm, Germany April 6. 1945.
Jerry Blizzard umm ww2?
Did both your parents survive this nightmare?
April 1945 was in the lost months of the war.
Ulm is OP, don’t you know.
Haha funny, I grew up in Ulm and in 2h I'll drive there and visit friends :) The city is evolving a lot.
My family identified as Germanic in the 2010 census and we occasionally speak German, but mostly in the household.
Wo wohnt ihr ? Immer wenn ich in den USA war gab es Leute, die irgendwie mit den Deutschen eine Beziehung hatten, aber niemand sprach wirklich Deutsch...
Germanic could mean a lot of things...
Germanic is a broader term than just "German" a.k.a. Deutsch.
Germanic includes Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, England, East-France and Luxembourg. But your family-name looks German indeed, so you probably mean German. ;)
@@weissachpassion da ist niemand das du mit deutsch sprechen can. Es isst alles Weck getötet, ich war im einer deutsche/amerikanische Schule und das war einzige Platz das du deutsch hören können.
Greetings to all american people from thüringia, germany
Thüringia is where my family immigrated from. At least the ones whose last name I carry.
We are brothers and sisters germany and america
Meine Mutter kommt aus Thüringen. Grüsse aus Texas
@@JoJo-gi5sc Meine Grossmutter Magdalena Wuerst war von Altenberg, Thuringen
If we are brothers and sisters, as you say, then why did we go to war with each other twice in the last century??? And why is America paying for Germany's military defense right now, while Germans enjoy cradle to grave social welfare, which Americans cannot afford because America spends astronomically for Germany's military defense? America is more like Germany's father, and Germany and all of Europe are like spoiled undeserving and ungrateful children who refuse to take care of themselves, even though Europe is richer than the USA.
Great video! There’s a reason the most “American” thing to
do is have a summertime cookout where we eat hotdogs, hamburgers and potato salad
(all German cuisine). There are many other German things that Americans do,
like put up Christmas trees in December for example. I am also glad you brought
up the oppression of German Americans during WW1, I have many family stories
that were passed down to me about my ancestors being discriminated against, yet
there are no books written about this subject. It is truly a forgotten history
and I blame the mainstream media for suppressing the subject. We’re just immigrants
who came and settled in America to escape hardship in the old country, just
like everyone else who came here.
We were also slaves for a bit
Yeah it is really unfortunate what happened to the Germans
@@ericschulze5641 when?
Us English also put up Christmas trees in December, but we are known as Anglo Saxons, and where did the Saxons come from? Yes that’s it north Germainia aka modern day north Germany and Holland.
@@matty6848 yes but Anglo Saxons came to Britain more than a thousand years ago and the French invaded and came in large making a massive impact on the language culture and genetics so modern day British people have more in common with the welsh Scots and French than Germans in contrast to America whose German immigration was much more recently and on a larger scale
There might be more English than German surnames in America, but that means nothing. Because of the anti-German hysteria preceding both world wars, many Americans of German heritage chose to make their last last names sound more English, in order to avoid harassment
For example, many "Schmidts" changed their names to "Smith" in those times. Also, over one hundred years ago, standard spelling was not always used. Therefore when immigrants arriving from Germany, who mostly spoke no English,
pronounced their last names to immigration authorities who often spoke no German, their names were spelled the way they sounded to the Americans, and not the way in the way they were spelled in Germany. For example, the German name "Koehler" became "Kaylor." These are just a few of numerous examples.
Also, consider the huge culinary influence of Germany here in America. While the American breakfast of bacon and eggs is very English, some of the most popular foods and drinks in America, hail from Germany, i.e. hot dogs, hamburgers, kaiser rolls, pretzels, and beer.
There are numerous tales that Germans and other ethnic groups changed their names long before the wars to blend in the environment more easily.
It's not true there's an undercount of Anglo-Americans people of English descent are still probably the biggest ethnic group in America still. www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Americans&ved=2ahUKEwi1sOWvrNzfAhVMRBUIHYt8DPgQFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3w0cQoCWT3iHIU2L7jOE9E&cshid=1546887455273
@@user-zi3ee8oj1i Nope. Despite the undercount, the Germans make up the largest ethnic group in the United States!
@@ABHINAVNR not true
@@ABHINAVNR Anglo Saxons are the most successful and largest Germanic group in the world.
I’m a second generation German-American on my father’s side. I’m proud of my heritage and loved the stories my father, aunts and uncles would tell of growing up in Germantown, Pa. There was much discussion of my grandfather’s hatred of Hitler and not allowing German to be spoken in his home. All my uncles fought in WWll, one helped liberate Auschwitz. There are several German-American Societies in the Philadelphia area, BTW. Thank you for an informative video.
That's interesting, but wasn't Auschwitz Liberated by the Soviets? I'm not saying your lying but maybe it was another Concentration Camp.
I’m a 4th generation German-American and my great great grandfather fought for america for both world wars, and interesting fact, he was a guard for the Austrian emperor
How nice of him to liberate the German build, German settled cities in the east of well the Germans. Your ancestors were war criminals.
@@abeedhal6519 I had no control over what my ancestors thought. My grandfather and grandmother came to the USA between 1903-06. Calling my ancestors war criminals is as bad as blaming the current generation for slavery.
Your comment is rude and hateful.
@@miask your grandpa is down bad for hating the fuhrer
The "Deutsche belt" it's funny how they settled in the almost identical climate as northern Europe/Germany. Half French and German here, it can be confusing and conflicting. Merican though.
We have a German belt in Canada too. Goes from Manitoba through Saskatchewan to Alberta. Saskatchewan is pretty much the buckle. Even our accent in this part of Canada (Prairie Provinces) are influenced by our German ancestors, and we sound more like people from the American Midwest and Great Plains than those guys from Eastern Canada or the Left Coast.
Also it is called the industrial belt, wonder why?
I came from Estonia, and because I live in southern california (aka: the hottest place on earth), I like to go to the mountains pretty much every week.
If people emigrate from home country for whatever reason, they like to stick to the climate that they are most familiar with.
@@emilv.3693 Absolutely, unless you're speaking post war when South American warmth seemed more pleasant.
I’m in California and my fiancé is from Wülfrath (near Köln). I was born in ‘71 and have never taken foreign language lessons, yet he seemed impressed by how familiar with the German language I am. Turns out I had a much older sibling who went to private school and took German as her foreign language, so I was familiar with her “funny writing” (7’s and umlauts, as I recall). In addition I had the privilege of caring for a few elderly people who were German American, one of whom was born 1902 in Pioneer Township, South Dakota and learned English as a second language when she began public school (kindergarten!). Not to mention that I was raised watching The Lawrence Welk Show. German Americans have made major contributions to American economy and culture.
Reading over these comments, I’m laughing so hard! This is what I’ve noticed about Germans. They are SO ethnically identified! Swabians or Silesians are NOT Bavarians, etc. I think the German stereotype, if there can be said to be one, IS Bavarian, with beer, sausage, lederhosen and “oompah musik” (Oktoberfest?), which are activities that non-Bavarian Germans quickly and clearly point out don’t go on in the region they’re from. I equate it with American rivalry between regional identification. German language connects all the regions of Germany, but I’ve learned how very different from each other they are culturally. Vive la différence! I love this country and all of its regions, and ALL the European ones of mine and my fellow Americans’ ancestry. Thanks for posting this video!
English is a germanic language!
would be nice if more Germans would see that multiculturism what we had
Artemis fowl: Germany was an is now also very multicultural. I always lough when someone is speaking of german genes. Germany was founded in 1871. It was an still is in the middle of Europe and everyone around 'visited' conquered, occupied and developed the region you know name germany. For hundreds of years. Most of us feel as Europeans.
Its weird to see a small german town like Wülfrath (20k inhabitants) being mentioned by an American in the comment section of a random YT video. I grew up in Wülfrath, what a coincidence!
the german nation is far older than 1871, you are talking about the german nation state. and in fact, most germans still identify themselves as german, then with their region and then as europeans. and btw, the conquering stuff wasn't just germany, actually tribes from what is now germany founded france, england and others.
Well, Donald Trump's grandfather was born in Kallstadt, Germany.
@Lukes Modz
It is hireditary in that familiy.
S.H. K. Fuck you, germans hate trump and the rest of europe
He has still family there.
@@mauricio5486 No, not everyone.
@@mauricio5486 don´t tell such fake news. We love Uncle Donald, best President !!! Greatings from AREA 51 Germany.
Not just 46 millions, the number of Germans in the USA with unknown/unclaimed heritage nmust be much bigger, probably more than 100 millions.
Outstanding video. I'm watching from Ireland, and had only vaguely known how extensive and prolific the German legacy was in America. Hats off, great video.
Love Ireland:.Greetings from Lower Saxony
Pull up to Boston aka America's Dublin lol
This clip is ,fully a nonsense .British + lrish in USA are 3 time more in numbers
than germans ,and except in economic field ,their contribution in USA life can.t be' compared. 40 presidents against only 2 german americans presidents.
I wish german americans would be proud like irish americans and celebrate st patricks day or oktoberfest but this is more bavarian not really dutch but no netherlandic for sure
@@ramadanhalili762 Fully a nonsense? Good luck learning English.
"Rhineland"
Northern Wisconsin:
"You called?"
There are many Americans of German descent in Wisconsin. I have a good friend who lives in Wisconsin, and she is of German-Irish descent.
Milwaukee, WI was once known as "Die deutsche Athen"
We were once called the traitor state during WW1.
@@matthewmueller2506 Also called the "Munich of the Mid-West" due to all the artists that came here, from Bavaria, to paint those huge murals used for public displays.
The governor of Wisconsin, before the start of the Civil War, actually had a PLAN to secede from the Union BECAUSE of the Federal Government's support of Slavery.
Anglo saxons are also german.
no, germanic
They should never forget it no matter how mixed they are with the Celts of Britain as in the case of the people of the Netherlands. I hate when some people regret its Germanic origins as if the anti-Germanic propaganda had soaked deep against their senses of family, nationalism and culture.
Yes, You Got That Right..
they are half celtics now lol
Beautiful Monster way more than half are celts. Have you seen how much taller Germans are compared to brits? The Germans hardly made a dent in the gene pool.
Ein berührender Beitrag, der den Einfluss der Werte deutscher Einwanderer in den USA deutlich macht.
Endlich jemand der nicht erstmal ueber nazis spricht!
Actually the german imigrants went all over the World long time ago(1850).
Those who left Germany during WWII were asylum seekers.
In researching my maternal grandmother's family, she claimed they were all early English colonists, I found the name "Bütefisch" from northern Bavaria. He had also come over to Virginia fight for the British but at some point deserted them and went over to the Revolutionaries' side. The family evenutally moved to a settlement in Illinois named Virginia founded mostly by Virginians. The name got changed three times until it ended up as "Petefish." The bank in that town was founded by my grandmother's great-uncle and to this day still carries his name. If she knew it, she never let on that her family had any German as she had lived through both world wars as an adult in Minnesota. That was typical of that generation in the 1950's.
I'm a Boere Afrikaner living in Orania, South Africa. Our language is a combination of Dutch and German. My family came to Swellendam from Hesse Kassel in 1829. It is fascinating to think how many volksgenote I might have in north America. Prost and love!
Cherish that town. A refuge for white South Africans.
Deutschland ist wunderbar
Fakt
@amrmatinea simej nö
Deutschland WAR wunderbar before Merk...!!!
Germany? You mean turk-syria?
@amrmatinea simej Yes it is
I'm a proud southern Brazilian German descendent
this explains why my ancestors were german
I'm a German American and I live in a area with the highest population of Germans in Wisconsin(Maybe even in the whole Country) . We have held onto a large amount of our roots. Very common to see German flags on peoples house and we calibrate German holidays. Almost everyone I know is either full German or mostly. I can still remember being a child and sitting on my grandfathers lap, telling me stories about our family while he would make sausage and listen to polka on the radio. lol Yes we still have local Polka radio stations.
This is quite the fascinating video! As an African American from Maryland, and I didn't really know how deep German roots really went in this country until college. It amazes me how many still keep up with traditions like oktoberfest and still have clothing inspired from the region. It kind of makes me want to explore the Midwest now and see more of your experiences and culture.
oktoberfest is NOT a german tradition. It is a local bavarian (small sub german cultural group) tradition which went compleatlly nuts in fame around the world. In germany there are only few people actually celebrationg oktoberfest. If you drive just 50km from munich you will find out that they are having a different feast, compleattly seperate from "Oktoberfest".
Also nobody in germany is wearing "Lederhosen or Dirndl", traditional BAVARIAN clothes. If yozu were that in northern germany or in middle germany people would think you are retardet and trieying to insult them.
Most germans are really anoyied by people thinking "Oktoberfest" and Bavarian clothes are representing germans.
THEY ARE NOT.
Germany has sooooo many different sub cultures with their own feast and traditional clothing, heck if everybody would speak in their regional dialecrt nobody would understand anybody anymore.
The main thing Germans have united is the language and the love for feast and beer. You have to remember that modern germany was over 1000 years split into 500-1000 different countries loosly connected. this also explains why there are austrians and swiss. They are basically ethinc germans who didnt join the political unity of Germany for historic reasons. They are ethnical sub german cultures with their own countrie. The german unity is actually only about 150 years old. Technically the US is older than Germany.
Also believe me if I say that you wont find many actual "germans" in the US today. Most are 100% americanized and only have limited knowledge of german cultures (best example the Oktoberfest=german mistake)
If you want to experience german culture you have to come to germany, and i mean not only bavaria.
draco2351 - It's great if we can all appreciate each other's cultures, learn and grown, instead of this moronic 'identity politics' rammed down our throat by ideologies and politicians that want to divide and control.
As a Christian European-American, one of my biggest inspirations growing up was Cassius Clay/ Mohammed Ali, not because he was black or became Muslim or was against the Vietnam War, but because he was a MAN who was searching for righteousness, was willing to learn and change his opinions and was willing to risk/ sacrifice fame and fortune for what he believed by his own lights was GOOD in the face of great political and press opposition. He could have taken the easy way out and just enjoyed his money and fame. He didn't. Later, he went to Ireland to the town one of his forefathers came from and his funeral was a beautiful thing, very moving. He wasn't a saint, but he fought the good fight and in the end came around to embrace all humanity. He was also a beautiful thing to watch in the ring and in interviews.
I also studied in Germany - at the German taxpayer's expense, universities are free, no tuition, in Germany - so a big thank you to Gernany! I found the Germans to be very thoughtful and philosophical, eager to do the right thing, struggling to come to fair terms with and make amends for the horrors of the Third Reich. Hard-working and honest. A big "Prost!" to Germany and be proud of your heritage. Zum Wohl!
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Hallo meine Waffenbrüder
depp
No, Empire superior.
German culture is beautiful.
king of horn african.
they are to conformists with the norms proclaimed in the society ,too submissive to their leaders ,too easy to be guided fascism and too brainwashed to believe in the own superiority
what will ironically because of the proclaimed idiocracy in germany lead again in a lot of problems for europe
sv svs angela merkel want to destroy german culture and history.
legofreak446 well said. American is for white european and native people.
The German people are very noble and kind, specially after WW2. All the nazi situation was the economy' fault people were driven to madness.
H Yuval
they are submissive to who rule over their country,they accept whatever is being told to them
in the same time they believe in the own superiority ,holy right to decide about the fate of europe
at the end what people are allowed to live and where
they have a very sinistar and gruel nature
their motivation today may have different direction but in its nature they are not different than 80 years ago
Me: "Hey, how was your trip to the USA?"
All my German friends that traveled to the USA:
"Well, we started in NY, then we went to Florida and at the end we visited California. So we might have seen the interesting parts of the US."
Me: "..."
And missed where most of the Germans are!
so did they just gloss over las vegas?
@thomas anderson anglos built fun, while Germans built ships and planes...
@@oilersridersbluejays it's unfortunate most the German Americans and even up north in Canada live in what is considered flyover country :/
@@brownjatt21 I rather live on the Prairies anyways. Keeps most of the idiots away.
Ethnically speaking, WWII was in fact Germans fighting Germans.
Nope as most where germans half or less
Not really. But the Revolutionary was was Brits fighting Brits.
Nope. Most of the battles of WWII were in the Eastern front. The German armed forces suffered 80% of its military deaths in the Eastern Front. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Results
Mr. Nobody italian americans were fighting italians in north africa sicily and italy
Mr. Nobody Well technically every war ever is just Ethiopian vs Ethiopian. Also to the guy saying it was mostly scots and Irish vs brits, Scots ARE British
Danke für den schönen Beitrag, ich bin sehr stolz auf meine Verwandten und die vielen deutschstämmigen in den USA! Grüße aus Berlin!!!
I was born in Mexico to an American mother and Mexican father. My mother's maiden name is Fausnaugh, and that side of my family comes from Pennsylvania Deutsch. I have been to Germany two times. I am proud of my German heritage; more proud of my German heritage than my English, that's for sure!
@@Clumsy-vp3if its because this video about germans dumbass, in another video he will proud about english relax🤣🤣🤣
Hi! I consider this name an interesting americanization of Fassnacht, quite plausible as ...bach has usually been changed into ...baugh.
My great great grandparents (I think) came to the United States from Bavaria to escape Prussian expansion in the late 1800's and settled down in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The only reason why I researched this is because of this video.
" Prussian expansion".. into where? Prussia did not "expand " into Bavaria!. Prussia created the German Nation through blood Iron and courage.. though Prussia should have taken over Franconia.The nationalist Protestants of Franconia desired that,but instead it ended up part of Bavaria!
Kaneedaaaaa!!!!….
A video about texas german brought me here. Very interesting stuff.
Greetings from Germany
What video was it? I have been doing some research about the Germans in Texas and Northern Mexico. Very fascinating. My mother is from Northern Mexico and I will be living in Germany soon.
Grüße von Texas. (Nein, bin ich nicht Deutsch.)
There is a German Texan language if that helps
Sabra Cadabra There are two books you can buy from amazon that talk about the colonization into Texas with ships and passenger lists. It has the letters from the prince who organized it. I bought them because two branches of my dads family are original founding families of Fredericksburg. I just looked for books about Texas German colonies and found them.
Texas Chicken fried steak is a version of Vienna Schnitzel.
I'm German and pray that I was more German.. I love my people!
@Pedro Victor xenophobic piece of shit
I love your women
@@lawliet2263 haha
Ausgezeichnet! Danke. Sehr gut! Ich bin Deutsch Amerikaner.
@Timotheus
Es gibt keine Deutsch Amerikaner, genauso wenig gibt es Deutsch Türken oder sonst etwas in dieser Art.
Du bist was du bist durch Geburt, durch die Vererbung der Gene deiner Eltern. Wenn deine Eltern Deutsche sind, bist du Deutscher völlig egal wo du geboren wurdest oder lebst.
Du kannst durch die Geburt in den USA die Amerikanische Staatangehörigkeit bekommen, oder dadurch das deine Eltern diese schon "erworben" haben.
Aber du bist und bleibst Deutscher.
Durch den Erhalt/Erweb eines Stücks Papier auf dem steht: Nationality / Unites States of Amerika verändern sich deine Gene nicht!
Dieses stück Papier gibt dir lediglich die Rechte und Pflichten eines jedes Staatsbürgers der USA.
Eine Staatsangehörigkeit kann man erwerben oder sie wird einem verliehen, die Zugehörigkeit zu einer Art/Ethnie ist nur durch Geburt möglich und durch kein Papier der Welt zu verändern.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Liebe aus Deutschland.
"Wenn deine Eltern Deutsche sind, bist du Deutscher völlig egal wo du geboren wurdest oder lebst. "
Falsch
Observerl vielleicht ist ein Elternteil Deutsch und das andere Amerikanisch...
Falsch deutsch ist nur wer in Deutschland geboren wurde von deutschen Eltern und dort aufwächst.
Diese peinlichen 1/16 GERMANZ sind nichts als die Ergüsse einer Gesellschaft voller unsicherer Menschen die eine seltsame obsession bzgl "heritage" und "blood" haben.
Naja wenn man selbst keine Geschichte & Kultur hat raubt man eben die eines anderen Volkes.
Very interesting. The Flag you designed is awesome. God bless America 🇩🇪🇺🇸 Perhaps the city of Bismarck in North Dakota would have been interesting to mention.
Interesting as always Masaman. I grew up in southern Minnesota, USA where the town of New Ulm still has the German feel. Integration often meant getting the Norwegians, Germans and Swedes to agree on projects. I have traveled in the Dakotas and you will often here a strong German accent.
I grew up 50 miles away in SW Minnesota and have visited many times. A couple of the old breweries have changed hands and names I believe. My parent would go up for the Polkafest many years.
Central Minnesota here. Everybody is Finnish for some reason, I’m the only person without much Finnish ancestry.
Gareth Oberman please just shut up you racist fuck, it's starting to become embarrassing for these regions to have people like you representing them...
Lol theres a new ulm? I grew up 50 miles away from the real ulm
I am from southern Germany and had worked and studied in MN for one year. New Ulm is indeed still very German, it has a strong South German (Bavarian-Swabian) touch whereas PA has its own German twist based on a Palatinate German foundation. What was not mentioned is that there are more groups like the Amish: the Hutterites and Mennonites all over the Plains. They still carry on their cultures and dialects.
Bin auch Deutschamerikaner. Wir sind zeit 1850 nach Amerka ausgewandert. Zuhaus sprechen wir immernoch Dietsch!
Aus welche naehe sind ihre Vorfahren gekommen?
Aus Pommern?
so WW2 were mostly Germans vs Germans.
Those with German last names or last names in German in US troops were Jewish Americans, not ethnically German descendants. Goldberg and Goldstein, Cohen are not real German last names (they are in German language but were coined by Jewish citizens). The German Empire, the Germanic Confederation or the older Roman-German Empire just like the Austrian and Spanish Empires never allowed Jewish citizens to get their national surnames. In Spain, Jewish last names were given from parts of the body or animals, in Austria mostly parts of animals (mostly horses), in Germany (during all the transformations the country had) those of Jewish ancestry got surnames associated to animals like in Austria but also with precious metals like gold or money mixed with the words mountain and stone (stein and berg) as suffixes.
Those who really got a few German surnames like Hoffmann either by interbreeding or by buying the name were deported during Hitler's government, although most of them had abandoned Germany before to Britain, France, the US, Argentina, Mexico and many other nations.
it was mostly Germans vs Russians
Giovanni Ching Autheman you contradict yourself in your comment. Also today lots of Americans still have German names or German names that have been 'Anglofied'
koukimonzta u thought it Germans vs Germans but the reality is spirit of light and spirit of darkness was fighting
+ koukimontza -- What's forgotten is that many Germans left Germany, beginning in the 1840s, when the Prussians began to restrict the ability of religious groups -- Lutherans, Catholics, etc. -- to run their own affairs. German Protestants and Catholics over the coming decades came to the United States to found communities -- innovative utopian ones, in some instances, as well as major hospitals and universities -- because their actions were increasingly proscribed at home. Add this fact to the Amish phenomenon, the many other German separatist sects -- the Harmonists, Moravians, etc. -- and what you have are Germans valuing peace above all else. Unfortunately, their homeland chose to follow a different path.
The majority of my extended family is still Amish. I'm from Ohio and have Swiss and German ancestry. My last name is Kline which comes from the German name Klein
Klein is also a common Dutch name.
Which means you also have family named Short or Small or smalls or any names starting with little such as Littlefield for example
As a German, I think this is pretty interesting !
Need to go to the Staates, and meet some German Americans !
Dankeschön Mason !
Come up to Saskatchewan in Canada and meet some German Canadians too including myself! A lot of Germans around here and a lot of the little farming towns have Lutheran and Catholic churches. The cemeteries, phone books, and farm entrance signs all have tons of German surnames. From Aschenbrenner to Ziegler, we have them all haha.
@@oilersridersbluejays Wasn't there a place that was first called Berlin but later renamed to something else?
@@stevensiegert in Ontario but who cares about Ontario.
Dennis Dobbert stfu GO BACK TO GERMANY
If you do? Stop in Pennsylvania. A lot of German history here. The town of Bethlehem PA still ligjts a huge advent candle every Sunday leading up to Christmas. Tschuss!
I am from Alberta and it is great that the video mention us in the prairie provinces and it’s strong German heritage in Canada thank you for that
Hamburgers and hot dogs are two parts of German culture that found their way into mainstream American culture.
what is about NASA?
Have you ever sang "silent night" - a german song.
Hamburgers weren't from Germany
Ryan Herich Hamburger were from germany, many german immigrants had them as rations when they traveled from Hamburg to New York.
Ryan Herich your an idiot
Clould you do a video on the non-Slavic people in Russia?
Uralic, Turkic/Tatars and Other tribes?
Rehan Zainul Abdeen u are probaly right ;) But Tatar is such a big group (1%)
of course they are
I think the phenomenon of tatars deserve to be explained in a separated video, Kazan tatars, Crimean tatars, Lithuanian tatars.. Tatars influence in Russian nation, famous Russians and noble with Tatar roots
Gotta talk about the Volga Germans plz
And our bloody queen is German 😊
interested viewer not the first to rule Britain as GERMAN blood. The king of Hannover reigned over the UK also
Well, if we speak of ancestry than the british monarch is from a german family since 1714 when George I. of House Hannover became king. Victoria was the last of that House. But the "germanness" continues through her husband who was of House Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Sure, they changed the name to Windsor during WW1, but guess what: That House would dynastically end when Elizabeth II. dies (I know that the Brits decided to just call it Windsor forever, thats not the point), as her husband is of German decent as well: House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
You can argue with diluted blood all you want: The Hun reigns in Buckingham Palace, always! :-D
Emojis are natzies
not to forget Prince Phillip von Battenburg (Mountbatten)
Darth Mustache Ja Genau.
My grandpa didn't have to fight in the war because of his children, but told me that he was grateful for many reasons, one of those reasons was because all of his family was in Germany
I wonder why they all seem to wear traditional clothes from Bavaria, as if only Bavarians migrated to the US
Sebonaut - well, I've seen a lot of Germany. In its small complex landscape it figures out (to me) as the most beautiful and richly varied country compared to others. Followed by Scotland (my impression). The big surprise one will notice is the proof of so much diversity on clothing styles, food (! you will go insane how delicious and healthy - even the Sauerkraut!), original languages which cover the whole space of middle Europe from the Netherlands to the Baltics from the northern parts of now Italy into the region of southern Denmark (and if you're not awoken pretty much, you won't understand most of them!). Yes, perhaps so many American people fell in love with Bavaria, you surely know enough people who took lots of photographs of their beautiful girls ...
mostly west germans migrated to us.
I imagine its because the Bavarian Oktoberfest tradition made that particular German culture the most appealing to Americans who wanted to "celebrate their heritage".
The American stereotype of German culture is Bavaria because the US controlled part of West Germany in the Cold War was mostly Bavaria
Cute Urchiens The sauerkraut is a lie! I ate sauerkraut maybe 20 times in my life. More common (in bavaria at least) is red cabbage as garnish. Though the absolute top food in germany is not sauerkraut, brezels or sausages but bread. Germany is a bread country first and foremost. Also after every germans opinion german bread is the best bread in the world.
"We're all living in Amerika."
-The Germans
Coca cola wander bra.
Und vor Paris steht Mickey Maus
German and Scandinavian women are the most beautiful. I personally think.
Yeah. We and Scandinavians looks very similar because we all have Germanic blood. Swedish model Petra Silander looks very German.
Nikita Khrushchev they are thx
Yeah y'all got some baddies
Me either:) but seriously
There is a german folk song that says all contries got beautyful women
But in the end I agree
Not even close
I'm very Ethnicly German with very little Slav and Nordic blood. My Grandmother (technically Great Grandmother, long story) left Germany quite a few years post war because of some personal reasons and came here and met my grandfather. I don't speak very much German but being raised around my grandmother I became defacto translater if my Grandfather isn't around because of her very think accent.
Zum Oktoberfest viel Glück! Happy Oktoberfest folks. Don't get too wasted on that Shiner and Lager!
Masaman great channel mate, can you check out my channel give some review.
Very disappointed by this comment section Mason. It's just Blacks hating on Whites. Whites hating on Mestizos. Mestizos hating on Blacks. and Asians just bein' Asians. We should all be more like the Asians.
Nein nein nur Bayern gibt es glück am Oktoberfest.
Vielen Dank für dein Video, es ist immer wieder eine größe Freude deinem Kanal zu zuschauen und Wissenswertes zu erfahren!
Eliphas nein. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ist den witchtige Staat.
Don't get English confused with British. There may be less Americans who identify with English heritage than Germany but if you include Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish, e.g. British I'm sure that more would consider themselves of British descent.
Agreed. Proud of my Scots-Irish, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh descent. It isn't polite to mention English heritage. ;-)
Also German and Huguenot descent, though some of the German descent is from Alsace so I don't how that's supposed to be handled. (It was in Germany when they left!)
And the genetics test claims small amounts of Swedish, Finnish, Dutch and Iberian, with just a tiny smidgen of North African to make me exotic.
@Arsinek White heritage is a very new concept actually. White and black were created to distinguish beween slaves in America. Before the 16th century "white" and "black" didnt exist. White isnt an ethnicity therefore most people dont really take pride in it. On the other hand a ton of people take pride in their ethnic history. The idea that there aren't proud German-Americans, Italian-Americans, Scot-Irish-Americans, etc is quite ignorant.
Arsinek, Kyle S.!
Just go and find Yourself a third of Your kind, put him on Your shoulders to change a bulb in Your living-room. Walk clockwise first to take the old one out, then the other way!
+SSTWELVE Well "white" is much more of an ethnicity (more homogenous) than "black".
@@PiousMoltar Actually its not. In the US, slaves did not have records kept so many knew nothing of their heritage and background. Because its human nature to want a culture, African-Americans came together to form a new culture that was an amalgamation of some African cultural aspects that survived slavery and new aspects. The black culture in the US is actually something unique to the states. Also since African-Americans were so heavily prejudiced against, there was a need to look out for one another; there was a shared experience between people of African heritage in the US more so than those of European heritage. To this day most "black"-Americans have no idea where there ancestors are from. So as black in the US became a culture and arguably a new people group (because all of the intermarriage between slaves of different African ethnicities and also with a lot of white DNA also mixed in) white somewhat remained simply an indicator of light skin color. Obviously Amercan Whites are mixed up now as well and not exactly the same as their immigrant ancestors but they often still have a better understanding of their cultural background. The idea of white people being proud of their "whiteness" is a recent phenomenon and is often dismissed as being proud simply of your skin color rather than culture and heritage. This is why some think its racist. Of course American whites have definitely developed a culture seperate of Europe but we simply view that now as being "American". One of the main points of division today is that whites often feel more tied to their "American" culture while some blacks feel more tied to "black"culture. This is part of the reason there is such a divide on the NFL Anthem issue.
I have an interesting mix of Irish, German, and Polish ancestry. And that's just the parts I know. I identify as American, but I also find comfort in my heritage and I love how so many people in the USA have such an interesting look on heritage.
That is common! Apparently Irish, German, Poles, and Italians intermarry so much in the US (especially in the northeast & midwest) they argued in the 90s that we’re forming our own ethnic group.
Pozdro z Polski
in the midwest especally by the great lakesi n wisconsin every other person either has a polish or german last name
Yeep
My dad used to always tell me and my brother that we were German when we were kids but it turns out that we were 3/4 Scots Irish and about 1/4 English.
thats a lot of scots arsh brother you sure its that high
+Bob Walker It's around that high. It's not especially uncommon given that I live in Appalachia.
Same here. Most white Americans are actually of predominantly British ancestry. It's just not popular to recognize it though.
The funny thing is that many scotch Irish are actually English. Scotch Irish simply meaning those who moved from the borderlands of England and Scotland to Ulster (Northern Ireland) so you might be 4/4 English 😀
Most of my family was from southern Scotland before they were in Ulster but there was a small English admixture due to the mixing with the Borderlanders.
4:30 The Amish are NOT a snapshot of 19th century German society - they wee untypical for Germany. Industrial revolution hit Germany as well and many people were not doing well - so trying to make a living elsewhere was a thing (and Germans tended to be well trained in the professions - more than other nations). That is an incentive to leave - an experience craftsman could hope to make it in the new world.
The fundamentalism of the Amish was the reason why they LEFT Germany. Legal ! religious freedom was granted - but fundamentalism was not very much appreciated althoug the church then had an important role.
The Amish were so fundamentalistic that they did not fit in very well with German society - so they headed for the "new country" - to do their thing undisturbe there..
Many of the Amish are descendants of what is known as the VolgaDeutsch ... the German speakers that Russian Empress Katherine the Great enticed into Russia.
Fuck the amish
@@richh1576 That would be the Plattdeutsch speaking German - Americans, Canadians, etc. Pennsylvania Germans are from Southwestern Germany/Switzerland/Alsatian France.
@@rafaelramos441 I live in an area where the amish are present. I understand Plattdeutsch (can speak fluent Hochdeutsch). I will reiterate that many of the Amish / Volga Deutsch came to Pennsylvania prior to WWII, and yes they did also speak Plattdeutsch.
My Ancestry/Heritage is Schwabisch ... and with some Donau Schwaben.
@@richh1576 What are the surnames of these Amish?
I am a german: It would be nice if more americans are interested for their german heritage and come to visit germany and europe. There are so much stereotypes. We have to listen to each other before it is to late.
e.g.?
Viele weiße Amerikaner sind sich bewusst, dass sie deutsche Wurzeln haben. Jedoch juckt es sie relativ wenig, da sie der Auffassung sind, dass Amerika besser ist.
Entschuldigung für mein schlechtes Deutsch, ich spreche es kaum zuhause.
Hallo Lukas, Dein Deutsch ist Klasse! Gerade weil viele Amerikaner so elitär denken, wäre es schön wenn sie andere Länder besuchen würden. Mit Entsetzen habe ich festgestellt, dass für manche Amerikaner "European" zu einem Schimpfwort geworden ist. Wir Deutsche haben viele Urlaubstage und daher sind wir viel unterwegs auf dem Globus. Leider ist Hr. Trump ja auch ein Deutscher. Sein Image bei uns ist sehr sehr schlecht.
Oh sorry if you have experienced this - have you visited germany? Of course you are not germans - you are americans now - but you have a german heritage. In wich region have your ancestors lived?
So kind of a sad story you lost the mailadress. East Prussia was once the core of germany now it isn't germany any more. We lost it after WWII. Many of the population flew to west-germany and now living here. You should visit Europe - it is your root and an important root of your country.
In the last decades we moved in different directions but this is no reason to look down an an american as a person. we wer great admirers for USA after WW II - this changed totally in the last year - know 80 Percent of the germans dislike Trump despite he is also from german heritage. Many see your government as a risk and as dangerous as putin.
I am so grateful for finding your work; amazed at the depth of knowledge and cautionary approach; pleased that the German nation gets recognition it deserves, and overwhelmed by all I learned! Heartfelt greetings from an Old European.
America have such an interesting mix; the most in the world. Germans being such a huge group in this mix is a surprise. Thanks for another great video
If English weren't to have been the standard national language in the United States it certainly would have been German.
Errr nope. Would've been French. There was a vote after the revolution and IIRC, the vote between French and English was very close. Those who preferred French did so because it was the Lingua Franca of the time and, naturally, to piss off the Brits.
Historical Review Are you sure it was German? I thought it was Dutch (aka Low German in Germany).
_There was an act in the USA that almost made German the official langauge of the USA but it didn't happen by one vote_
An urban legend, nothing more. That thing concerned whether pieces of legislation would be published in German *alongside* English. At no point did anybody suggest that German _replace_ English as official language of the Union.
If you want to build a history channel, don't just mindlessly repeat rumors that have been spreading for quite some time now.
There was several proposal in the 1800 to make the US officially English-German bilingual
I was referring to the language in which all of the official legislation was published in, which has always been English and English only. And I repeat: at no point was German ever considered to *replace* English in this role. The furthest they got with it was to make it an auxiliary language for the migrants who had yet to learn English but even that didn't come through.
EDIT: I just watched the video you refer to and I quote: _So no: German was __*__never_*_ going to be the official language of the United and neither was English or any other language._ Which still doesn't change the fact that English was the conventional mode of communication and one all legislation was printed in but regardless even that, let's just quote your first comment: _There was an act in the USA that almost made German the official langauge of the USA but it didn't happen by one vote_
So please, next time understand your own sources before citing them.
Great video. German culture has left its mark on many American traditions, such as parades and hotdogs. The German experience is a testament of how multicultural this country has been, and how state sponsored repression, rather than organic homogenization, has been the defining force exerting the most damage on this diversity.
uhm, how is hotdog german? in germany it's actually considered an american food.
Hot dogs weren't always called hot dogs. The typical hot dog is a Frankfurter style sausage, and eating them on 4th of July following some type of parade was a direct influence of the Volksfest which are very typical in Germany, and contrast with earlier American/English banquet style of celebration. And dude, geh nach Deutschland, und, stimmt, werden sie dir sagen dass ein Hot Dog etwas amerikanisch ist, aber es hat deutsche Ursprünge. Sehr spannend!
Ask people of the time that and they will disagree. I know this might seem strange given the "white" construct that's been furthered since Victorian times. Actually, before this even Catholics were considered aliens. And German Catholics, mega aliens? Ask Benjamin Franklin, and you'll read in his comments of the day how hard he thought the Germans were ever going to be able to live side by side the Anglos and Irish (which were also considered weird). Moreover, "compatible from a biological perspective" is a non-sense phrase given the strong mixing throughout history of peoples that looked both similar and less similar (India, Europe, Latin America, Africa, etc).
You sound like a bot, incapable of understanding basic language. It's a free country where I live, so I'll post in whatever language I feel like. Have a nice day, and may the Lord bless you with infinite wisdom so you may one day use a drop of it on the world around you.
I'm sorry but your punctuation is horrible, and your capacity to read and understand English even worse. Take your suggestions and use them for yourself. As for myself, English is one of my first languages. I have two higher education degrees from top schools in the U.S., and, yes, I even passed AP English in high school, in which I ranked in the top 1%. Of course, I always excelled in English, and I was always in the school spelling bee during grade school. So please, kindly, take your semi literate half-brain-in-a-brain to an MRI expert and take advice from a sixth grade English school teacher to point out to you to not give English language advice. Have a nice day, and a happy 2018!
My great-grandparents taught German and Lutheran dogma in a separate school, one mile down the road from the public school. My Grandmother and father walked that mile every afternoon. Separation of Church and State.
A lot of americans LOOK german aswell.
@James Smith You can. Are you American? You might have never noticed.
All blue eyed americans are brothers of Germanic /scandinavic peoples ! Grüße nach Amerika
@@MrHeidiHigh except for all of europe that has blue eyes besides germans. Slavs and celts blue and green eyes is the norm you aren't special. Im half german, im also half scottish and my german half has hazel eyes. So...
That's not true. Ben Affleck look like a typical white American man in my opinion but he looks more like Irish, French or Spanish than German or Scandinavian. Anne Hathaway look like a typical white American woman (her face is very American from my point of view) but she look more like French, Spanish, Portuguese than German.
American people as Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst looks pretty German.
Blake Lively looks more like Scandinavian than German, Dutch, British/Irish.
Evan Rachel Wood, Katy Perry, Reese Witherspoon, Téa Leoni looks British/Irish.
In other words, its depends.
@@alraunevonegenolf4307 Anne Hathaway looks very english
Germanic identity is not so much about culture, ethnicity or even language, but about ethos. That is why they have no trouble integrating and even assimilating without a great sense of loss. Cultural identity does not really compete with ethical identity. From Tolkien*s "The Shire" to "as American as motherhood and Apple Pie" 50s culture to Biergartens/Oktoberfest, it is all the same thing really. Same ethical substance in different cultrual vehicles. Local community, decency, work ethic, and some degree of emotional repression seems to be the chief components of the cocktail to me.
Your really just describing Calvinist Protestantism
Germanic is literally an ethinicity
@@rohiths9099 it's a language family
I have so many German ancestors my great grandparents immigrated to America in1925 I am only a bit Irish but I take pride in my German heritage Lang Lebe das Vaterland I love you all my German brothers
My grandfather got into trouble for speaking German in school.
Greetings from Singapore to all the Germans speakers in the US!
Und Grüße zurück von uns 😁
@@someguyinplace Bitte vorsichtig sein und bleibt alle gesund!
Lets eliminate that virus, and then all countries evaluate again who are our friends, and our relationships to dictatorial regimes.
Roots to be really proud... The germans always work hard, cheers from Argentina.
Hello Hitler.
@@andrewmaddox2889 Germans and Argentina... should I be concerned
What's ironic is that Argentina's Italian immigration is almost parallel to that of America's German immigration. Argentina was founded by a Latin European country (Spain), but its population has predominantly roots to another Latin European country (Italy). Similarly, the US was founded by a Germanic European country (England), but its white population predominantly comes from another Germanic European country (Germany). Fun fact, the country with the third highest German immigrant population is Argentina, and the country with the third highest Italian immigrant population is the US. Anyway, in some cases you can even see how the influence of these immigrant groups overshadow their colonizers' influence. American food has a lot of German influence, as seen through the hot dog and hamburger, two American classics. Argentineans also consume a lot of Italian dishes like milanesa, pizza and pastas. In a way, Argentina was to South America, what the US is to North America. Both were the lands of opportunities, though one clearly went south (no pun intended), very much like their European counterpart.
I also notice a parallel between Germany and Italy. Italy is to the Latin and Catholic world what Germany is to the Germanic and Protestant world. Catholicism was officialized in what is present-day Italy, and the Protestant Reformation started in present-day Germany. Both the terms Germanic and Italic are used to describe two linguistic branches in the Indo-European family. Also, both Germany and Italy were highly defragmentalized territories, ruled by multiples kingdoms, duchies and counties, before unifying fairly recently in the 1800s. Because of that, they were late comers in the colonial race, hence why they only got leftover colonies in Africa. Both were allies in WWII as well. Hitler wanted to create the Third Reich (First Reich was the HRE and Second Reich was Prussia), while Mussolini wanted to revive the Roman Empire, by ruling the entire Mediterranean. Hitler wanted to rename Germany's capital Berlin to Germania, so that it becomes to the Germanic world what Italy's capital Rome became to the Romance world.
I live in Maryland and I've met probably hundreds of people who claim German ancestry but only 2 other people who actually speak the language. Ist doch echt schade :/
Ja das ist wirklich schade. I would love to visit some german brothers and sisters in the US :) Liebe Grüße aus Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein :)
Ich wohne in Illinois und kann Deutsch sprechen. Seit 2014 habe ich in der Schule und bei Internet Deutsch gelernt und nächstes Jahr gehe ich nacht Deutschland und Österreich. Meine Oma wohnte im Südwestminnesota und ihre Eltern haben Deutsch gesprochen. Mein Onkel spricht etwas Deutsch, aber ich bin die erste, seit meine Urgroßeltern, die deutsch sprechen kann.
BryGuy - chapeau! You will meet lots of natives over there who where trained a futile 18 years. They won't have enough lifetime to catch up with you!
BryGuy Glückwünsch
Dein Deutsch ist wirklich sehr gut :-)
Nice, I am from Illinois too, and have some German blood in me, would really like to learn it.
Sehr Gut! I always love hearing my Oma pronouncing "W" words in Eng as "V". And my Opa sounds completely American. It's like he wasn't even born in Deutschland LOL. I can trace my German ancestry back to the 10th century (:
10th century?