German Americans Paradox Of A Model Minority Summary

This article ‘Germans Americans: Paradoxes of a model minority’ discusses about their immigrations and the problems associated with it. First of all, in May 1917, was against the fact that bilingual schools of Indianapolis state were singing star Spangled banner in German translation even though they were had the least number of ethnic groups. Germans almost did not exist. Benjamin franklin said that they were trying to make people German instead of adapting to the language or culture they lived in. As time passed, many immigrants started moving to US from southern and Eastern Europe. They thought of Germans as good and bad people. Germans in American became more urbanized over the nineteenth century and their population started to increase. During the nineteenth century, the city was home to more than 20 to 30 percent of the German population. As the years went by, their urbanization rate started to decline. Later they moved to farming areas they bought the lands.
Even the newly arrived Germans were trying to be more urban even though they had no access to any land. The Germans were in a large group therefore there were many people for farming. During the nineteenth century, Germans were a leading group in US cities. Behind them were Irish, Italians, and Jewish people in terms of population. Having the highest population enabled Germans to share their culture and language among the other people. A German immigrant usually meant a farmer and the way they crop was similar to their neighbors who were Anglo – Americans. By 1950, most of the Germans were landowners. But some of the acts by Germans were not accepted by the Anglo- Americans. They held onto the lands at the cost of children’s education, sending their wives and daughters to do hard