US ambassador killed over a film

[Lissa]

In this case, it's both. There is a well known instance of anti-german rhetoric in the US, especially right after WWI. Ty Cobb was infamously caught sliding into second base against a player of German descent screaming "German! German!" with his spikes set to dig into the leg of the player and crowd at the game was cheering Cobb on. Over the last 100 years, German culture has been both suppressed and opressed within the US.

Kitchener, Ontario used to be Berlin, Ontario. Then WWI happened.

However, my sense is that the post WWII culture was quite different from WWI. Has there been any serious anti-German sentiment since the immediate post-war period? Nobody is attacked or criticized for the schnitzel-and-lederhosen stuff, are they?

-Jester

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.

This is circular logic at its best, whitewashing of history at worst. So because a culture isn't predominant in a country, that equates it to being the most suppressed demographic? I have to disagree completely. Germans just by the fact their ethnicity is caucasian have it much better than most minority groups, by default. Again, two-thirds of the prison population is minorities, consisting mostly of African Americans and Latinos. Nor are Germans racially profiled, slandered, economically suppressed, or the victims of xenophobic, violent hate crimes that minority groups are.

I would much rather be a German living in America than be a Middle Eastern or any other minority living in America, especially right now.

I guess you completely missed the point then. What you are seeing with other cultures now in US is what the German culture went through in the past 100 years in the US. Prior to the outbreak of WWI, there was a heavy German culture in the US, after WWI it has dwindle to near non-existance in the US. Likewise, most Germans Anglicanized their names around WWI to hide their ancestory and not be persecuted. So, while you're not seeing it now, it happened and you don't see a major German cultural presence in the US anymore like you do with the Irish, the Lantinos, even the various Native American tribes still are holding on to their culture (some better than others). German culture in the US is effectively dead however due to the same Xenophobia you enspouce to be occuring now because it already happened to German culture in the past. I wonder if you realize that Pennsylvania Dutch was originaly Pennsylvania Deutch, this is the kind of thing that has happened to the German cultue in the US and considering 1/6th of the US population owes it's ancestory to Germany, that's telling however you want to try and whitewash it or not.