[lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 06:50:34 PDT 2006


From: Wojtek Sokolowski
> >... Some groups (e.g. Germans)
> >tended to assimilate quickly and lose their national
> >identity (cf. Pennsylvania "Dutch" which is a clever
> >makeover of Deutsch).

On 4/18/06, Carl Remick wrote:
> During World War I, German-Americans had good reason to lose their national
> identity.

it should be mentioned that the "good reason" centered on persecution of German-Americans by the "native" Americans.

-- Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles



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