German Americans 1/5 18%

Chinese Americans or German Americans, which is more?

已有 274 次阅读2015-7-3 03:28|个人分类:People history|系统分类:人物纪事

The Economist, a journal recommended by Harvard/Qinghua Dr. Larry Ho (Yichi Ho), showed 1/5 of US total population is German Americans. That number surprised me tremendously. I asked around which ethical group is the top: Many people answered "It's Chinese."

 

In reality, Chinese Americans are about 1% of the US total population, compared to 18% of German Americans (see the chart below, Chinese can't make up to the chart, cut-off at 4%). How come do people got this impression about Chinese?

 

I asked German Americans. They told me "Our German Americans speak English, live here quietly, integrating into American culuture while you Chinese speak Chinese, so distinguished that you stand out of the crowds -- I've never experienced such a partisan crowd like Chinese - you have your own ChinaTown, your own language, your own restaurants, your own Chinese schools - a quite separated world. During WWII, many Germans came to the US. Americans worried about German Americans speak German only. WWII, many hate Germans - we got live quietly so be ignored"

 

I's shocked by what they said about our Chinese - Yes, I'd admit our fellow Chinese like staying with Chinese; however, in reality, Chinese isn't united by any religion at all even we speak Chinese. We don't have a unifited goal, a belief, a purpose, to influence other ethical groups.

 

Knowing that, I look around. Yes, I've been working with many German Americans and didn't know about them. I try to catch up now by reading:

 

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German-American presidents[edit]

There have been two presidents whose fathers were of German descent: Dwight Eisenhower (original family name Eisenhauer and maternal side is also German/Swiss) and Herbert Hoover (original family name Huber). Presidents with maternal German ancestry include Richard Milhous Nixon (Nixon's maternal ancestors were Germans who anglicized Melhausen to Milhous)^[156] and Barack Obama, whose maternal family's ancestry includes German immigrants from the South German town of Besigheim^[157] and from Bischwiller in the Alsace region that is nowadays part of France; both families came to America around 1750. ^[158]

 

 

German Americans
Deutschamerikaner

Baron von Steuben John Jacob Astor Carl Schurz Adolphus Busch John D. Rockefeller Henry J. Heinz Herbert Hoover Irma S. Rombauer Dwight D. Eisenhower Babe Ruth Amelia Earhart Marlene Dietrich John Steinbeck Hannah Arendt Wernher von Braun Kurt Vonnegut Norman Schwarzkopf Elvis Presley Evel Knievel Donald Trump Meryl Streep Bruce Willis Kevin James Amanda Seyfried

 

 

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Total population
50,764,352[1][2] 17.1% of the U.S. population (2009)
Regions with significant populations
Throughout the entire United States Plurality in Pennsylvania[3] and the Midwestern states[4]
Languages
American English and German
Religion
Christian 51% Protestant Lutheran Reformed Mennonite Amish others         26% Roman Catholic         1% Jewish (1%) 16% other[5]
Related ethnic groups
Germans Alsatians Austrian Americans Swiss Americans Dutch Americans Pennsylvania Dutch German diaspora German Canadians

German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who are of German or Alsatian descent. They comprise about 50 million people,^[1] making them the largest self-reported ancestry group in the United States, ahead of Irish Americans, African Americans and English Americans.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]} They comprise about ¹⁄₃ of the German diaspora in the world.^[12][13][14]

None of the German states had American colonies. In the 1670s the first significant groups of German immigrants arrived in the British colonies, settling primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. Immigration continued in very large numbers during the 19th century, with eight million arrivals from Germany. They were pulled by the attractions of land and religious freedom, and pushed out of Europe by shortages of land and religious or political oppression.^[15] Many arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start fresh in the New World. The arrivals before 1850 were mostly farmers who sought out the most productive land, where their intensive farming techniques would pay off. After 1840, many came to cities, where "Germania"—German-speaking districts—soon emerged.^[16][17][18]

German Americans established the first kindergartens in the United States,^[19] introduced the Christmas tree tradition,^[20][21] and originated popular American foods such as hot dogs and hamburgers.^[22]

An overwhelming number of people with some German ancestry have become Americanized and hardly can be distinguished; fewer than 5% speak German. German American celebrations are held throughout the country, one of the most well-known being the German-American Steuben Parade in New York City, held every third Saturday in September. Traditional Oktoberfest celebrations and the German-American Day are popular festivities. There are major annual events in cities with a strong German heritage including Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis.

 

A chart of the top ancestries in the US, as provided by the 2000 census.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American

 

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