[lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Jim Devine" <jdevine03 at gmail.com>
>
>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.

And let's not forget the British royal family's persecution by H. G. Wells.  
During WWI Wells fumed about the Hanovers being Britain's "alien and 
uninspiring court," to which George V famously replied, "I may be 
uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien."

Carl