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    I find it shocking what Ben Franklin said of German that immigrated to the USA.

    He called them Stupid and Swarthy and too dumb to learn English.

    Here is the article Below.

    Germans make up the largest European Ancestry in the USA. The British Anglo's were especially harsh to the Irish,Germans, Italians and just about every other European that was not English in the USA.

    http://www.dialoginternational.com/d...anklin-on.html

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    Swarthy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shah-Jehan View Post
    Swarthy?
    Anglo Americans at that time considered anyone without horrible teeth and pale freckled skin swarthy I guess,lol.

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    Personally I would question the authenticity of such a quote.

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    Most alleged "Germans" in the US are only Jews who immigrated to the US during and after Hitler.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chichic View Post
    Most alleged "Germans" in the US are only Jews who immigrated to the US during and after Hitler.
    That is false, USA has plenty of Amish and the Midwest has old school Germans that came over during the Revolutionary war as Hessian soldiers fighting for the British. I could see the Anglo Americans disliking Germans because they did fight for the British as the root of some of the discrimination.

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    " And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth."

    Swedes swarthy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cmv88 View Post
    " And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth."

    Swedes swarthy?

    Sounds ridiculous to me, but Anglo Americans really only considered English Anglo-Saxon's white at this time. Of course the definition changed over time. They were very ethnocentric. During world war I there was extremely anti-German movements in the USA sanctioned by Woodrow Wilson.

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    Germans have clearly been a threat to America.

    From the German Hessians & German house of Hanover King George who fought against American independence.

    To the Kaiser in 1897 planning to invade & colonize America.

    To Germans blowing up the statue of Liberty in WW1.

    To Germans killing thousands of Americans in WW2.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chichic View Post
    Most alleged "Germans" in the US are only Jews who immigrated to the US during and after Hitler.
    gtfo

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