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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]German Americans were quite insular until WW I.  There were distinctive German-language communities, called "Germania" throughout the Midwest in cities like Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland schools had what we now call two-way immersion programs: school taught half in German, half in English. German was in a similar position as the Spanish language is in the 20th and 21st century - the most widespread foreign language.  Until 1917, a German version of the "The Star-Spangled Banner" was still being sung in some public schools. The transition to the English language was abrupt.  After World War One the German language was seldom heard in public; most newspapers and magazines closed; churches and parochial schools switched to English.  German Americans became the biggest proponents of assimilation.  Today, German remains the largest ethnicity in America, but the German American population is so thoroughly assimilated the cultural impact is hard to distinguish apart from beer and hamburgers. 
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I just spent a couple of months in Germany. And Germany, more than any other European country, is similar to the US on many levels. So much so that it may be that the Germans weren't assimilated into the US but that it was the other way around.

When the GI's in WWII got to Germany after plodding through France and Italy, they were surprised at how similar German life was to that they were used to in the US.

I don;t know what the percentage of Germans that are Catholic is. I suspect its small. The Evangelische church seems to dominate[/quote]

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