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Isaac Rabinovitch@isaac32767.bsky.social |
This is the right place to think about Benjamin Franklin complaining about German immigrants and their refusal to assimilate. I think he was right, if you consider how much "American" food is actually German.
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@la-crystal.bsky.social
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My bet is that food is one of the closest held cultural traditions. I still make many foods the way my mom made it, though I've expanded from those childhood days.
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Michael Clark
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In my rural town in the Lehigh Valley (PA) until about 1970 town meetings were conducted in German ("Dutch"); changed to English when there became too many English-only residents. Nearest cemetery has only German epitaphs.
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Ursula Thoese
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Friedrich Merz, the leader of the conservative CDU party here in Germany, would love to hear that. He is currently trying to revive the stupid, backward-looking idea of the "German Leitkultur" in the discussion about immigration.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Right, Erika Lee’s essay in MYTH AMERICA is great on this point
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