US ambassador killed over a film

[Lissa]

Up to 1970 there was still some annimosity, but so many of German descent have Americanized that you don't see it hardly at all any more. The thing is, outside of a few very specific instances, German heritage culture doesn't exist in the US anymore whereas you can see celebrations of other cultures within the US and considering a little over 1/6th of the US population has German ancestory, that's pretty telling. So yes, German culture is the most suppressed culture in the US.

No Oktoberfest? No Lutheran churches? No Bratwurst, or Hamburgers? No Nena, Kraftwerk, Rammstein, not to mention Beethoven or Brahms? No Gunter Grass, no Franz Kafka, no Gothe?

Methinks you have simply normalized all the parts of German culture that are now "american" to the point where they are invisible.

-Jester

And how many people do you think would understand Lutheran is from Germany? How many people would know that Bratwurst or Hamburgers are German? How many people do you think still remember "99 Luftballons" or how about the fact that it was redone specifically for the US as "99 Red Ballons" with it's lyrics translated to English? How about that Kraftwerk is not an American band. Likewise, Rammstein is not an American band. It's also quite hard to seperate out Brahms, Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner from classical music. How much are Grass, Kafka, or Gothe required reading in American schools? Begin to see the point?

Methinks you are taking too much for granted and not recognizing that German culture within the US has been supressed and repressed to near non-existance even though 1/6th of the US population's ancestory is German.