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Pennsylvania was a major state and a former colony that saw an attraction and influence of German immigrants from the colonial era. A key event where German-Americans faced hardships was during the Fries's Rebellion. The participants in Fries's Rebellion were primarily German-speaking farmers, many of whom were recent immigrants or descendants ...
Anti-German sentiment in the United States, opposition to or fear of Germany, its inhabitants, its culture, or its language. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃʔameʁɪˌkaːnɐ]) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. According to the United States Census Bureau 's figures from 2022, German Americans make up roughly 41 million people in the US, which is approximately 12% of the population. [ 7 ]
Internment of German resident aliens and German-American citizens occurred in the United States during the periods of World War I and World War II. During World War II, the legal basis for this detention was under Presidential Proclamation 2526 , made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act .
German-Americans, especially immigrants, were blamed for military acts of the German Empire, and even speaking German was seen as unpatriotic. Many German-American families anglicized their names (e.g. from Schmidt to Smith, Schneider to Taylor, Müller to Miller), and German nearly disappeared in public in many cities. In the countryside, the ...
Native Americans are killed in police encounters at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group in the United States. Native Americans are killed by police at 3 times the rate of White Americans and 2.6 times the rate of Black Americans, yet rarely do these deaths gain the national spotlight. The initial lack of media coverage and ...
As part of our "Age in America" series, discrimination attorney Michael Lieder joins us this week to explain why it can be difficult to prove age discrimination in the workplace.
German praise for America's system of institutional racism, which was expressed in Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, was continuous throughout the early 1930s. [40] The U.S. was the global leader of codified racism, and its race laws fascinated the Germans. [ 40 ]