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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]German Americans are invisible? Aside from the fact that,  as someone 
stated , there's no  such thing as Germany when most people who would generically fall under the German appellation immigrated to the U.S , it is only ignorant people who think these people are invisible.  Unless you think visibility in the form of ..I don't know..festivals?

I mean,  when in a store you see beers with names like Busch, Budweiser,  Miller , does that feel like invisibility? When people shove hot dogs , pretzels and hamburgers in their mouths ,does it feel like German Americans are invisible ? Across this country , there are entire towns and cities with German names. Maryland I awash with such towns; Hanover, Hagerstown,  Gaithersburg,  and ..wait for it ...Germantown , just to name a few. I'm really confused by this thread. [/quote]

Germans get 2 fests in America. Oktoberfest and then winter markets in some cities.

I think it's true that one of the issues facing Germans in America is that Germany was quite fragmented when immigration was happening, and remains fragmented today. I barely consider anything north of the Fulda gap to be real Germany because the culture, food, and dialect are markedly different in the north. When your frame of reference is Bavaria, Franconia, etc, the north is very foreign. [/quote]

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