This does not work. The Pennsylvania Dutch are not assimilated at all. They have their own language, their own very distinct culture, their own religion and roughly their own territory. They have practically as much right to be considered an individual "nation" as the Iroquois.
--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: By which, I presume, you mean hostility of the "native" population. But by the same logic, Hispanics, Russians or Poles should follow the Pennsylvania Dutch footsteps, but they often do not. Clearly, something else than potential hostility must be going on here.
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