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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sure someone here is more knowledgeable on this than me, but speaking anecdotally for my family of German descent, they were earlier immigrants (ie, pre Ellis Island) and not from a huge wave of immigration when anti-immigration sentiment ran high. They were also of a professional class that came with more money than later immigrants and didn't have to work menial jobs and live in nationality specific ghettoes, ie they assimilated quickly and never faced much discrimination. In turn, they never joined unions or networked together to form a "lobby" in the same way, they were more diffused with fewer common interests. I'm mostly familiar with the NYC area, but it doesn't seem like they went into the same professions as much as other ethnic groups either (again, correct me if I am wrong) like say the Irish going into metal working and the police that continued for generations. That's my impression anyway. [/quote]

My goodness. A true Aryan in our midst![/quote]

I'll be sure to pass this along to my 100 year old "German" Aryan grandfather who ended up shot to shit in the Battle of the Bulge fighting on behalf of the USA, so sure. [/quote]

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