Made up of city states and each are controlled differently Religion culture and lan Hamburgers hotdogs beer Santa Clause pretzels and white fences all German Immigration from Germany German Americans Model Immigrant Largest Immigration to the US Continuous No such thing as Germany or German guage Unification in 1871 Immigration in all Waves Different in each wave Diverse group German Stereotypes Myth of the Pennsylvania Dutch Not dutch at all Land in Pennsylvania because it s open to all White saxon and protestant Skilled hard workers True for all No 19th Century Immigration First Wave Immigrated as families Largest group 6 million people from 1820 1914 Diverse Religions catholic lutheran and Jewish Classes money Singles and families What Made Them Leave Political mainly upper class Revolutions of 1848 conscription laws Economic industrial revolution potato blight taxes middle class German crafts men come Bring beer and piano making Lower class potato blight Taxes af fected everybody Religion Why America Land they knew we had land Gottfried Duden 1829 talks good about the midwest Railroads Sells land around the railroad to get them to move Jobs hired first because they had a good stereotype Location Settled based on religion and class Upper Middle Class Mid west ethnic enclaves German Triangle Cincinnati Milwaukee St Louis Largest ethnic enclave in the mid west Still like that today Lower Class Lower east side NYC Boston Mixes with other groups 19th Century German American Life Upper Middle Farming Beer and Pianos beer master knows how to make it what it tastes like etc Beer needs crops from the upper class Everyone likes beer Pianos were entertainment No assimilation Lower Class Factories main work available Due to their good stereotype they got the best jobs Parochial schools Newspapers printed in German Also about news in Germany All these things in the factory Social Clubs many of them Both Classes set up stop assimilation Model Immigrants Said all immigrants should be like Germans Good stereotype move far away have money but this only lasted for a short time 20th Century WWI End of the Model World War I Germans know all about it Germans and English courted us to get us to join sides and get in the war British lie about the Germans Propaganda Yellow Journalism posters hung talking about the Germans Start calling them Huns Called black internally We go into war on the British side and help them to win US Reaction Pumped up Patriotism we stop using anything linked to Germans For example we stop drinking beer stop playing pianos burn German books and newspapers German American Response Hyper Assimilation changed quickly For example the political cartoon about John Smith and the store World War II Hitler Nazi Germany socialist patriotic movement Germans try to warn America about Hitler They try to get Hitler out America has nothing to do with it but the Germans volunteer to fight against Germany Also started reporting again Hitler not about Germans The Alien Registration Act of 1940 does not apply to German Americans Amer ica is not even in the war yet when this is passed 300 000 Germans registered Alien Enemy Registration Card Internment 11 000 seen as enemies Not true German Americans Today 58 Million today 17 Assimilation and acculturation Ethnic enclaves Jews Jewish Immigration to America What makes them unique They have thousands of years of hatred towards them Homeland to International People Nationality to Ethnicity Jerusalem Israel This is the Jews Promised Land Jerusalem is the main place for Jews This place has their main temple Rome Controlled most of the ancient world at this time The Romans allowed Jews to practice their religion but practice Roman laws Romans started fighting with the Jewish people Destruction of the Temple o Romans destroy the temple and expel the Jews out of their homeland Jewish Diaspora 70 AD The expulsion of Jews is called the Jewish Diaspora After the Jewish Diaspora Jews begin to migrate elsewhere FORCED MIGRATION Living as a minority under Christians Problems with Jews Judaism or Stereotypes Hated by Christians Anti Semitism Anti Jew Religion Killers of Christ Christians consider the Jews to be the Killers of Christ Smite the idea that God is smiting his own people Christians because they al Christ son of God low the Jews to live happily EX Black Plague sent by god as a destruction tool because they allowed Jews to live amongst them happily During the Black Plague 1 3 of Europe died Not the Jews EX In America Christians believed that Jews were being smited God brought on the Great Depression Jews did not suffer but Christians did The reason anything bad happens to a Christian or Protestant Gospels Jewish Faith Torah Talmud God Torah history of Jewish people Starting with Genesis History and word of Talmud Scholarly book written by scholars Rabis They read and interpret Torah Break up the Torah How to praise God etc The way that Jews practice their faith Development of massive stereotypes Jewish Traditions Dress traditionally a more conservative type of dress Orthodox Jews following the rules of the Torah and Talmud to the T Eating Habits Kosher What they can and cannot eat A particular way of killing animals Only eating certain animals Only eating certain parts of animals Separate certain foods No meat and milk together Different plates dishwashers kitchens Language Speak the language of their country and also speak Hebrew Hebrew is the traditional language of the Torah and Talmud They only speak Hebrew in the Temple Develop a third language for Jews who speak different languages to come to gether and speak Hebrew words with Slavic ways of speaking Synagogue Modern word for Jewish temple Very different from a Church There are not crosses No stained glass windows or statues of Mary The synagogue is segregated men and women cannot sit together not in all synagogues Sabbath Day SUNDAY The day of rest Jews Sabbath day begins at sundown on Friday and goes until Saturday Jews are unable to work on Saturday which becomes a huge problem Problems with Jews Judaism Economics Usury interest Making interest off of a loan Historically the Catholic church outlawed usury for many centuries Banking Finance Jews make a lot of money off of interest Other religions do not like this Taking Over the World They think Jews are taking over the world without Christians knowing Stereotypes carried to the United States hundreds of years later Preconceived
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