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As a person of 12.5% Sweedish anscesetory, I would love a Sweedish day of some sort! We can't forget that many of the first settlers to the Philadelphia area were Sweedish! Wilmington, DE, was founded by the Sweedes.
Very true. Jamestown NY has an unusually percentage of people of Swedish descent due to the furniture industry that was there. I believe it's at 18% or so.
Yes...it's called the superiority of the Aryan race. There was some big war over it a long time ago and the Germans proved their superiority without a doubt - twice.
I was born in a city the was founded by Germans and has a noticeable cultural influence...but I'm of French descent. Am I superior by association?
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I think it's not so much German ethnicity but their Lutheran religious beliefs, which they have in common with Scandanavians. From looking at both religious adherence maps and ancestry maps, I am struck by the concentration of both German people and religious adherents in the Upper Midwest. The difference being these religious people are conservative but in a less 'red' way than Southerners...i.e. the fact they don't have the death penalty in those states.
Lutherans have always seemed peace-loving, friendly and mostly decent people, with a strong ethic of helping those in need, but also to 'live and let live' and not impose their values on others like in other parts of the country. So in a way, yes, it has something to do with their ethnicity/nationality. The same can be seen in say Mormon or Amish communities. Very nice people even today (even sometimes creepily so!).
Lutherans are a major religion in the South as well...there you go again, grouping all southerners as "red" - I assume that's a political reference - and ultra religious. There are some very conservative religious organizations in the South, but it's not the majority of the population. There are huge numbers of more tolerant Baptist organizations; large pockets of Catholic populations (625,000 Catholics in the Atlanta Archdiocese); cities like Winston-Salem where the Moravian Church (also of German origin) is dominant and Greensboro where the Society of Friends has large numbers; the Methodist Church is a very large protesant organization in the South, as is Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopalian, and a long list of others - including Islamic, Hindu, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and any other "style" of religious worshipers in existence. There are even Amish communities scattered throughout the South.
I think it's not so much German ethnicity but their Lutheran religious beliefs, which they have in common with Scandanavians. From looking at both religious adherence maps and ancestry maps, I am struck by the concentration of both German people and religious adherents in the Upper Midwest. The difference being these religious people are conservative but in a less 'red' way than Southerners...i.e. the fact they don't have the death penalty in those states.
Lutherans have always seemed peace-loving, friendly and mostly decent people, with a strong ethic of helping those in need, but also to 'live and let live' and not impose their values on others like in other parts of the country. So in a way, yes, it has something to do with their ethnicity/nationality. The same can be seen in say Mormon or Amish communities. Very nice people even today (even sometimes creepily so!).
Um, not just Lutherans. Many Germans in the upper Midwest and the Great Lakes States are Roman Catholic. Big cities like Milwaukee, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis, and small cities like Dubuque, IA and St Cloud, MN have strong German-Catholic roots.
Milwaukee has/had a large German population. It was my experience living among them for 9 years that many were racist, rigid, narrow-minded, one-dimensional, lacking a good sense of humor, introverted, regimented, and sour. Milwaukee has always been perceived as a "nice" town, but the lack of openness is deceiving. Living in such a place where many of these people are obedient, rigid, introverted, and quietly severely racist, is far from ideal IMO.
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Yes...it's called the superiority of the Aryan race. There was some big war over it a long time ago and the Germans proved their superiority without a doubt - twice.
I was born in a city the was founded by Germans and has a noticeable cultural influence...but I'm of French descent. Am I superior by association?
I hope you were joking in the beginning of your post. It's hard to tell online.
Um, not just Lutherans. Many Germans in the upper Midwest and the Great Lakes States are Roman Catholic. Big cities like Milwaukee, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis, and small cities like Dubuque, IA and St Cloud, MN have strong German-Catholic roots.
Very true. In Syracuse, the Assumption parish on the North side was a German-Catholic parish initially and still is to some degree.
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Many Germans in the upper Midwest and the Great Lakes States are Roman Catholic. Big cities like Milwaukee, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis, and small cities like Dubuque, IA and St Cloud, MN have strong German-Catholic roots.
