How did Germans avoid the negative stereotypes in the US?

[KMack]

[brennus dux gallorum]

It's like "Germans=Yankees".

[Fractal]

It's like "Germans=Yankees".

They are usually mixed with Anglo Irish and other European ethnicities

[KMack]

It's like "Germans=Yankees".

The Germans did not cling to the NE coast per say. Yankees to many means the NE New England, not the Mid Atlantic, Mid West and West.

[Styrian Mujo]

Germans are racaily almost the same as the colonial stock. Germans (inc.netherlanders) were already quite present since the early colonial period if I am not mistaken.

[Mingle]

Before the world wars, South Germans (Catholics) faced some discrimination but the discrimination was more religious in nature than ethnic. Saxons (North Germans) faced little to no discrimination until the world wars. Then during the world wars, the German language and culture were heavily repressed.

Btw, the term "yankee" is based off of an insult by Englishmen towards the Dutch btw. The name "jan" (pronounced yaan) was a common name among the Dutch and the "kee" comes from "kaas" (meaning cheese) cause they were insulted for having cheese stuck in their teeth. I mentioned the Dutch cause they are Protestant Germanics. I believe there might have been other tiny incidences of discrimination towards Saxons and Dutchies (and Scandinavians) but nothing notable.

[Mingle]

It's like "Germans=Yankees".

The definition outside USA is different but the proper definition of a Yankee is a New Englander of old stock English descent.

[KMack]

Germans are racaily almost the same as the colonial stock. Germans (inc.netherlanders) were already quite present since the early colonial period if I am not mistaken.

Lots of British Dutch early on. then,


http://metrocosm.com/animated-immigration-map/

[brennus dux gallorum]

The definition outside USA is different but the proper definition of a Yankee is a New Englander of old stock English descent.

In southern states they often meant those who joined the union states in the civil war

BTW long time no see ethnic guy

[Mingle]

In southern states they often meant those who joined the union states in the civil war

BTW long time no see ethnic guy

There's a joke about this:

For foreigners, a "yankee" is an American. For American southerners, a "yankee" is a northerner. For northerners, a "yankee" is somebody from New England. For New Englanders, a "yankee" is somebody from Vermont. For Vermonters, a "yankee" is somebody who eats apple pie for breakfast.