Most Americans Are GERMAN - Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มี.ค. 2018
- Explaining a couple of surprising facts about american ancestry, and what it made me realise about the self governance model of the US, and in particular Minnesota
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A lot of German Americans quickly assimilated during World War I, going as far as to change their last names. (Kind of like the British royal family.)
In Balkan area is a biggest shame to change last name or even first name....
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It's kinda sad, I'm from German descent and there are some people in my family who"americanized" thier names so they wouldn't be outcasted during the world wars
They were forced to
There are more Norwegian-Americans than Norwegians so yeah
And Hella expensive
I may be Norwegian American? I’m getting a dna test on ancestry dna but all I know is that I’m 4th gen American on my dad’s side and that we have strong roots in Norway and Denmark.
Same as the Irish
i am german, you are german, everybody is german
I am German, my last name is, I like my beer, bratwurst, and sauerkraut. My ancestors came from Bavaria, Auer is a well known name there, there is also a place called Auer Germany, a town. Most Americans are of German ancestry, than any other.
My great grandfather change his name when he immigrated from Germany in the early 1900s, it was Schlopslinger, something like that, that was his original name, then he changed it to Auer, named after the town in Germany.
The master race!
I wish I was German. No German in me unfortunately smh.
@@danielauer9307 Auer is most certainly a pretty german name, but I only know the town called "Au" in bavaria and it's only 10 minutes by car from my hometown. So maybe it actually was "Au"? because i researched and there doesn't seem to be a town called "Auer" in bavaria.
Fun fact: did you know that, About 90% of Argentina's population is European. Mostly Italian (50%)
David Landeros Yes. The United States of America used to be 90% European as well and is now down to 59% and falling every single year sadly thanks to mass non white immigration.
That's why there are so many italian sounding argentinian football players. Mauro Icardi, Diego Simeone, .... There are also a lot of Germans in Argentina.
Brandon peters actually the USA are a good example of what can happen when immigrants take over a country. Ask the native Americans, they can tell you what European mass immigration did!
Benjamin Maxwell The illegals aren't even the main issue but only a small fraction. The main issue in America is the racial demigraphic change that's happening through legal immigration. Before the 1965 immigration act was put into place, the U.S. actually had laws in place to preserve the white majority. That's been completely thrown out of the window.
fjellyo32 You fail to mention that there was no countries in North America before European arrival. There were several primitive tribes who were slaughtering eachother long before white people arrived though.
Minnesota can into Scandinavia
Just not Esti
*Sad Estonia noises*
@@MrAsianPie Even Finland is not in Scandinavia. 🤦🏼♂️
As a native Minnesotan, I can add more to this. Because several generations have passed, most families are mixed. My parents were German-Norwegian and German-Danish. My maternal grandmother's parents were Danish and settled in North Dakota. My Dad's mother's family were Norwegian and settled in Iowa. (We occasionally teased him by calling him an I-wegian). The farming community I grew up in had mostly families of Norwegian and German descent with some Bohemians and Dutch. The only Irish-named family were Lutheran because the mother was Norwegian.
Yes, different ethnic groups did settle close to each other, my husband and I lived near New Ulm for awhile. A very German place! But not all old families in Minnesota are of German and Scandinavian descent. My husband's family on both sides were English and Welsh and had been in Minnesota for a few generations.
Don't overlook that hotspot of German settlement: Wisconsin, next door to Minnesota.
A good amount of people in North Dakota have Icelandic and Norwegian Anchestry, the same goes for minnesota.
@@ulfurkarlsson5885
For example: Marshall Eriksen xd
@@ulfurkarlsson5885 Okay that fits with Canada. I learnt about 10 years ago about Icelandic settlers in Manitoba (which borders N. Dakota. Interesting.
German Americans are way underappreciated tbh. Give em credit where credit's due.
German used to have a strong presence as a second language in the US. Then WWI came along and the prejudice mostly killed it off and it was eventually replaced by Spanish as the country's main minority language.
No overrated
I am like 70% German, and the rest Scottish and Irish. My dad is almost 100% german
My grandpa is 100% German born in america my mom is 75% German born in america I am 35% German born in america
Why do Americans always talk about their heritage with percentages, it’s just cringe
@@kadenelijah9329 genetics
@@jocabulous Just say my grandparents were from this place or that place instead of breaking it down into percentages. No one outside of North America is interested in that
@@kadenelijah9329 well why don't you shut up and get lost? You find it cringe. Not me. If you do. Keep it to yourself. Or not like the comment.
The US's massive size and ethnic diversity it is big reason for its patriotism without a strong sense of patriotism it would be hard to maintain such big group of different ethnicitys across half of an entire continent
Exactly that's why 93% of America's population speaks English because of there diversity not to mention 75% of Americans are white or of European decent so america needs something to bring them together which is why most of them if not all just call themselves American and want to keep the English language as a way to unit themselves
Well said
My mother is a German American and my father is From Denmark. He arrived in America in 1985.
Greeting from Kansas
My great grandparents were actually Black Sea Germans.
Same here, except just a little further up the line. My ancestors were Hutterites, and there are a few Mennonite ancestors going further back
Btw Black Sea Germans are German-Ukrainian
Too bad they didnt keep their culture or language
America is a melting pot
Yeah it's called Both of the World Wars and the Holocaust which screwed us German-Americans
They don't need to keep their culture alive
The German can do whatever they want
I wouldn't say that we have lost our culture, for instance my family still speaks quiet a but of german and we eat lots of german dishes every Sunday.
Greetings from neighboring North Dakota! I am actually mostly German and Russian so right on. Enjoy St. Paul! It is a beautiful city!
It’s really interesting to see the correlation between ethnic groups and states in the U.S. I would love to see a similar style video about the Canadian provinces and the ethnic groups that make them up
The most common word for British-American is Wasp (although it could be considered derogatory) WASP= White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
Fascinating stuff, also I thought the quality was great!
I've been getting into your channel and was so happy to see a video filmed in my beloved Saint Paul! My ancestry is English, Luxembourgish, German, and Swedish. (Not many Luxembourgian-Americans in the US, but we're mostly clustered in Minnesota and Wisconsin.)
Most Brits can also claim they are Germans (Anglo Saxon).
Anglo-saxons are not german.
yeh there not from two regions of germany or anything
Randemize Germany didnt exist back then
Coolrh13 So can people of Austrian descent, Lichtenstein, from certain parts of Belgium, Luxembourg, and most of Switzerland.
XamN They are Germanic people's actually.
Im icelandic/Swedish born and raised in MN! love hearing you talk about my state!
I recognized where you were at immediately and began freaking out. I'm Iowan, but have spent significant time in Minnesota where family lives. Also, I'm of Dutch Swedish, and German heritage (with some Irish), and I always definitely knew that most Americans identify as having German ancestry. Even a bunch of my African American friends that I grew up with. The other European country that is most cited is easily the Irish, and again, I didn't need the chart to know that. Actually, whenever I meat someone with English ancestry, it stands out to me as being kind of weird and foreign. I don't really think of Americans as being English, except for the founding fathers, but I don't tend think of us as being their biological descendants. There are a lot of English surnames, but half of the time those are Americanized foreign names.
By the way, I apparently some English ancestor if you go back a dozen or so generations and get to the colonial era, although I suppose that I'm on board with other Americans who consider any English heritage from that far back to basically be "American."
By the way, a lot of rural Minnesotans dislike the TC public transport because they don't like how their taxes are used for a public transport that only certain people in the cities will use. And also, it will take a whole year to complete some basic roadwork about a block long. I freaking hated always having to take detours because of stagnant roadwork.
The Vikings is the name of the American football team. Which, for the record, is not the same as British football, which we call soccer. I am personally writing up a proposal to the governor of Minnesota, by the way, to change the state flag to a Nordic Cross using the three main colors of the current seal-on-a-bedsheet flag (navy blue, gold, white), since it looks better, stands out more, and also shows history. I would also be completely happy with the flag proposal that you brought up at the end of the video (I'm writing this as I'm watching). Basically, the main thing I'd change would be to turn the purple interior to white, considering that the football team always threatens to move to California.
Depending on your politicial leanings, a ton of Americans _absolutely_ like viewing their states as semi-sovereign countries. Not quite nation-states, but definitely still states in the proper political sense, since America is on principle a collection of separate entities that came together and signed a social contract to get along with each other and share certain resolutions via the federal government. States' Rights is a major buzz word in America.
Thank you for your insides! God bless you and your fam ❤️😁
Most Germans to not come from Germany, because there was no (unified) German state until 1871.
That is actually a valid point, even if you consider those which named their origin: Austria, Switzerland, Alsace and so on.
I love how diverse it is here in America. One of my favorite things about this country.
I live in Rochester Minnesota just south from Saint Paul
I live just west of Minneapolis
Loved the video. ^^
Tusen takk. =)
(Means "a thousand thanks" in Norwegian ;-)
Luredreier tausend dank!!
Lol i knew what it ment from my visit to Norway!
I just finished watching the time capsule video
Glad you came to my home state, St paul is beautful. Also check out downtown Minneapolis and the river over there!
ibx2cat! Had been looking into Nunavut (a territory of Canada), wondered if you knew anything about why they hadnt left canada, since most of the 35,000 ish people who live there are of Inuit decent. Dont know if it intrigues you or not, but I find it a super awesome place of the world. So few people in such a huge area, and like 2 of the largest islands on earth are located there as well, which each hold less than 100 people on each? some crazy low number like that. On top of all that, Inuit culture varies from the typical first nations found elsewhere in Canada, especially the Inukshuks! (technically the plural is inuksuit). Just thought I could POSSSIBLY teach you something, since you've taught me a lot about other countries. Love the videos!
It seems like these Inuit regions (Nunavut, Greenland, etc.) are dependent on Canada and Denmark for imports and government support, so they gain more from being part of another country than they could from declaring independence.
The US Is one of the only nations on earth besides Canada, Australia and New Zealand to pride itself on the diversity of its citizens ancestry. It annoys me when I see comments like "Americans are NOT Europeans", no most are not from Europe but they're technically Europeans, and Asians, and Africans, and Native Americans. Point is American is not a race (Unless you're native), so white Americans are Europeans, European Americans. Continental Eurasian comments always seem to be so toxic and hostile towards the Anglo-Sphere countries. (Although I guess there are some reasons, British Imperialism and Colonialism, American Imperialism, Canadian-American-Austrailian-Kiwi Slaughter of Natives) But Europeans aren't clean.
Marty McFly The United States of America and Canada are both inherently European countries! Sadly whites will be minorities in both countries in less than 100 years due to the massive amounts of non whites they are taking in through legal immigration. I have nothing against non whites! But the racial demographic change that's happening in the western world at the moment is the biggest issue we are facing.
But where did the Europeans, Asians, and Africans come from, as well as the native Americans?
so if Americans are europeans, than are european africans? you dont get to arbitrarily draw the line at when a race becomes a race
There are technically some Caucasian races which are Asian. Many people of Arabic descent basically look white. Similarly, there are a few races from central Asia. Armenians, Afghans, Uzbeks, etc.
All people are actually African as that is where humans originated
Great video. Don't have a stroke though! Slow your roll amigo. I will watch regardless: I just don't want you hyperventilating
Of course there’s a lot of Italians in NJ 🤣
tina posts stuff including me
I’m originally from NJ. And going through my High School yearbook I realized like more than half of the last names are Italian, it’s pretty funny
Hey Ibxtoycat I saw you yesterday at minefaire in minnesota, saint paul. It was a great time. I had fun doing the Cha cha slide! I hoep you like our state. It's a beatuy
Come to Wisconsin! It’s only like a half hour drive from St. Paul.
Great video
Wow, summer in Minnesota looks really nice
They aren't, they just included "American" as an option an a lot of British Americans will Identify as American. Think about it, a guy named "James Muller" is going to be fully aware he has German ancestry but a American named "Andrew Samuels" won't think too much of his name because it's just seen as generic. Why is Samuels seen as Generic? Because it's an English surname. English surnames are Generic because they are the most common, hence British Americans don't realise their ancestry and identify as "American".
But surely all Americans understand that if you're white and called "Williams" or "Davis" or "Wilson" or "Jones" etc (all in the top 10 most common names in USA) you're dominant ancestry is probably some sort of "British"? It's not rocket science.
It makes most sense to list it as american. I dont get why the picture even had mexico as a "heritage" like how tf does that even work? "I'm half Mexican and Half European" like where the fuck you think the Mexicans came from?
The most annoying people are the ones that give you decimal precentage on how much they are irish or english. THERE IS NO GENETIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM. It is a clear scam on the DNA indestry where they look at the best fit and just inscribe the most logically asspulled percentage. Either your American or Do by Race, its retarded to say "well my last name is muller so I 23% german"
I largely agree. When you have a country almost entirely made up of descendants of relatively recent immigrants most people are a whole mishmash of nationalities. But there are recent immigrants who have stayed more within their national groups and call themselves "Italian American", "Irish American", "German American", "Russian American" etc. but hardly ever "English" or "British" American. Maybe some haven't got over 1776, even though they won?
Nizte There's definitely a genetic difference between the Irish and the English. I don't know who told you that but you are wrong.
The English have 30-40% Anglo saxon genes and ontop of that they are Brythonic celts and the irish are some other kind. The point of the study was to find out the ethnic backgrounds of American citizens and "American" is not an ethnicity, hence it doesn't make sense to ask it. Germans are not the most common ethnic group in America, they just appear that way because they did the study wrong. Previous studies put British descended Americans as the highest followed by German but when they added "American" a lot of the British descended population suddenly vanished.
That map in regards to Puerto Rico is misleading, we’re typically some Taino (the Arawak descended natives of the island) some black African and mostly Spanish. There’s actually some Irish because of the famine but like no pure “Puerto rican” natives
All that "Scandinavian" services you note in Minnesota we've got in Massachusetts too
Most white southerners are English, Irish, and Scottish
Wow you’re in my state! Neat!
- Minnesota are quiet. (how it’s in the video)
- Minnesota looks like a Scandinavian city.
- Looks Cold.
*probably swedish*
FALSE: Most Americans are of German descent (or ancestry). That would be at least 51% of over 320 million Americans. Really?
TRUE: Americans of German descent or ancestry make up the largest "ethnic group" by % in the USA=around 17% or about 50 million people. Pick your game up!
The part of the USA (United States of America) that includes California, Nevada (my birth state), Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma were part of Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
OMG BREATH MAN!! LOL
What brings u to Minnesota?
4:12-5:36 Yep, that’s totally my family! Here in South Dakota we have a lot of Hutterite colonies dotted about east river (east of the Missouri, that is) and in fact, my grandma on my dad’s side is a Hofer by maiden name (that’s one of 16 Hutterite surnames). She’s told me about how her grandfather on her dad’s side was from Russia, but for a while she didn’t know too much other than their culture and stuff like that. After we got her a DNA test and after I did some genealogical studies on my own, we found that the Hutterites trekked from southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland all the way to Ukraine over a couple centuries. There were three different groups, the original Hutterites who lived in Moravia and Bohemia, the second being exiles from Spittal an der Drau and Klagenfurt, Austria, and the third being originally of the Mennonite group. They all converged in Alwinz, Transylvania (modern day Vintu de Jos, Romania). From the 1770s to 1870s they lived in Ukraine before immigrating to the Americas, and I believe their first colony was either near Bon Homme, SD, or Freeman, SD. Freeman is where a lot of my family lives/was from after that. I’m glad I could see this part of history! I find it pretty captivating, not gonna lie lol
The Census figures are strictly self identified by respondents to census surveys. Historians and anthropologists have found the actual national origin of people in U.S. areas to be often quite different from the census answers.
I already knew this because I am polish and stuff and from Wisconsin we have so many polish people and now I live in Michigan but the short time I lived in Wisconsin there where so many of us
More airport videos please
Toycat how do I meet you I live in Minneapolis can you do a meet up
Wow! You talk so fast
i tried x1.25 speed it's cool xD
lol did you just walk around in a circle for 10 minutes (jk, as a swede this was very interesting!)
So little snow there. How cute. That's what Finland looks like in one month.
Bhaalspawn84 We are having an unusually warm winter in the Midwest, possibly due to climate change. Thirty years ago this guy would be broadcasting from an igloo
We have had quite warm winters here too. Last March average temperature was above 0 so snow melted but April was colder than March. This year we have more snow than in years. Ranging from 75cm in the north,50cm central to 25cm in the south&west.
The winter in Minneapolis was the COLDEST winter in like a long time... Negatives in Late february, most snow after the new year, most snow since 2010-11, we got 3-3.5 ft. Total, probably doesn't seem like a lot, but we had only less than 1.5 ft from each winter in 2012-2017
I think we should put a metric-US customary conversion chart on here...
Feet is almost exactly 30cm (30.48cm)
Could you talk about the deep roots of Britain? I mainly mean English, like with the Anglo-Saxons etc
Can you make a video were cultural identity changed over time.
How the people of certain areas around the world identify themself and how or if that changed trugh long time ocupation.
f.e. between germany and france, or russia in generall.
Poland seems very intresting also: how their borders moved over time, did the people moved with the borders or did they changed their identities??
come visit southern norway some time xd
I already did :)
Did you know, Spielberg means play mountain?
Spiel = play
Berg = mountain
Hmm does the Finnish word for game Peli come direct from Spiel? Maybe...
That’s a Jewish last name not even German.
Liam Foran yeah, thats not native to the jewish though. Ever heard of a goldstein or pfefferberg in the old testament?
@@liamforan4105 Thats not a Jewish last name its German
Toy cat--- can you please do a meet up in Chicago while you're in the US???? Please, i love your videos!!!!
Im german, from deep bavaria to be specific and id love to visit texas some time. Seems like a super interesting state that has a very specific and recognizable lifestyle/culture.
I'm half black half white I have no idea where my black side came from because of slavery in do know that my white ancestry all came to America in 1897 they been here for so long that literally my family doesn't no German never been to Germany or don't even no there culture and I'm 35% German
Oh and Texas the most popular American states population is mostly white and Hispanic does not have a official language and mixed it's culture with Hispanic culture to I heard alot about Texas never been there is live in Illinois
I like the Geography videos. :D
You should come up to St. Cloud!!!!
I’m American and have a lot of Spaniard and French ancestry. It’s super diverse here
You must be a Chicano
@@pepedestroyer5974 umm no. My family is from Spain originally.
@@pepedestroyer5974 in short I’m White
Needed to drop a like since he's in my home city
Minnesota is a forgotten state.
PS: The signs are translated into Hmong, and Spanish
Never Lucky m8 isn't Somali and Spanish
Do Why is cyprus not a part of Greece?
We got lots of germans and nords here in minnesota
German-Texan Here, we need to spread the Dialect back into texas and create more BMWs
From Iowa, always told I was from German descent
when you cant even speak your native language.
@@chasenixon9010 hmm but english are actually german 1500 years ago
You should play GeoGuessr for a video. If you don't know what that is, just look it up.
Minnesota! I heard that’s where all the Vikings went! ;~p
i liked the purple in the suggest new flag but... imo, if they want it to feel more scandinavian, the purple should be red so its a bit like a mix of the swedish and norwegian flag.
actually, if they want to incorporate something from every scandinavian flag, the star could be white or yellow, the outer lines of the cross the other option of the star, red cross and blue outer fields
You should do a vid of the irish who went to england instead of the u.s.
it's not that the majority of people in the USA, or any particular region or state are of one dominant ethnicity or race, it's that these particular ethnic groups are the largest in those particular areas. For example, a state may be colored as "German" , but the people who identify as having German ancestry might only be 30% with all of the other identifiers each being lower. Very few places have more than 50% of its people identifying as one particular ethnicity.
Some other things that bug me about the way this is reported is that Mexican is a nationality, not an ethnicity (unless they are native). Also, Africa is entire continent, not a country. So, while European ancestry is broken down by countries, all countries in Africa are lumped together as African-American. It's like comparing apples to oranges.
I dozed away and realized he was still talking.
That map got Hawaii wrong
I knew that Nebraska was very heavily German (half the people that I know have German last names) but according to the maps that were shown my county is also heavily Dutch and Swedish (strange because my county has abou 6000 people)
Interesting!
What does the Norwegian flag have to do with the thumbnail
Because Minnesota is thinking about changing there flag to look like Swedens and Norways
Like Argentina : Spanish speaking Italians!
Alaska's not got German ancestry. It was previously Russian territory.
Affordable public transport that works? Wish we had that in Denmark.
Copenhagen seems to have it pretty okay
I always thought that Minneapolis was the capital of Minnesota. I guess I just thought that because of the name.
I'm also a Brit who would love to live in Norway. But I don't have a degree so I wonder what job I could get there 🙄
Conway79 St. Paul is right next to Minneapolis
I honestly believe that there is a pretty equal ratio of Americans of English descent and German descent. I am from Maryland. I have very recent ancestry in India and Brazil so I am a very small fraction of American ancestry but this is what I think.
It's really not that far of a stretch. United (a union) States (not quite nation-states) of America (territory/continent). We have slightly different rules, cultures, and populations. Official participation means we can travel around and trade under one currency. We even get some "nationalism" when sports fans go a bit nuts over which state is better.
America has more scottish people than scotland. 😂👍🏻
I think we have more Canadians with Icelandic anchestry than in Iceland, but they are still Canadians because they are born there .
It's like me a Jamaican of ghanian ancestry claiming ghana yet i don't know the country or peoples like that or have citizenship
You should do more of these ethnic videos
I think the autonomy comparison is accurate; it's just it started differently. The States started very autonomous (fun fact: before the Civil War, people would refer to themselves as Virginians or Marylanders-they didn't identify with the Union as a whole-but afterwards they regarded themselves as Americans and our identities became more united) and have slowly given that autonomy away to the federal gov't. Whereas in Europe it seems, for the most part at least, the centralized country gave out autonomy to different regions (e.g., Spain, Serbia). Maybe I'm wrong about this, but that's just how it seems to me.
[The US founders thought all the different states would keep each other in check. They didn't count on the federal gov't taking so much control and having the checks be given to a two-party system.]
Can confirm this, my Grandma is German whose family immigrated to the Dakotas from Russia.
My family from my dad side came from Germany my mom said came from scandinavian Denmark and Sweden
Soon, America is going to be Norway 2!
There are many norwegian youtubers that make a living from youtube, and noen of them have more than about 130 thousand subscribers, so i think you could make it
Then why German didn't become lingua francua in the USA?
because they weren't actually the majority :)
@Edgar Larky: Because German is difficult as fuck, that's why.
Cheesus The grammar of German is more complex than that of English but phonology is more simple. The difference between spelling and pronounciation is not that much. There is a simple repeated pattern with almost no exceptions. French is way harder in all aspects among them.
@Edgar Larky: I came to Germany when I was 7 years old. It took me almost 10 years to become completely fluent in German. Of course there are some similarities between German and English, but the pronunciation and the grammar were a nightmare for me. My German is pretty perfect today and I haven't been speaking English as my main language for years now (at some point my German became even better than my english, I'm already starting to make English sentences with German grammar lol), but it was incredibly hard for me to learn German as a 7 year old kid.
Edgar Larky World War One. There an outpouring of Anti-Teutonic bigotry encouraged by the US government, which led many Germans to anglicize. Before the war there were "colonies" in the Midwest that spoke German as their primary language. My Great-grandfather Schoen (my father's maternal grandfather) was born in a colony Kansas near the Missouri border around 1900, and he spoke fluent German despite never having been to the Fatherland at any point in his life.
So you are practically saying that I am black and my family that is from the Caribbean are all German, right?
How do you afford to go to all these amazing countries?
Amazing countries.. america? (I'm joking)
The serious answer is I do a lot of budget travel, my flights were paid for me in this case by a convention
lol Both sides of my family are from WW2 axis. And the ones you all know and love, Spaghetti land and Get drunk with beer land.
I am a German-american my mom is fully German but my dad is fully American so I have citenship in both countries so this is interesting
Well I'm american but my great grandfather was from dusseldorf germany
My grandmother was from dusseldorf and my grandfather from paris 💀
My grandpa is a russian german born in canada. My greatparents are from russia and then immigrated to usa and then came to canada.
its all germany
*always has been*
Well if you look at European history, after the fall of the Roman Empire, the Germanic tribes dominated most of Western European,(other then Spain and Portugal)and parts of Eastern Europe.