<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Probably a little bit of both. But he was allowed to assimilate. You cannot say the same thing about the situation in France.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Not true.Quote:
Originally posted by The Big Sexy:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by gae:
Did great, great, great grandfather Heinrich assimilate into the American culture or did he insist on lederhosen?
When my Dago, WOP, Guinea, grease ball, Iteye grandparents got off the boat in 1899 they moved into the same lower eastside coldwater slums that the Irish just moved out of. The wanted to be American so much that none of their kids were allowed to speak Italian outside of the house. They worked their Asses off and eventually saved enough to move way out to the Bronx. My father was born in 1905 and quit school in the 8th grade and got a job cleaning up scrap metal in a factory and took every opportunity to stay past his 10-hour shift to learn how to be a tool and Die man. Eventually by 1938 he was ready to start his own business and anglicized his name, open a small shop and eventually won a contract making tank gears for the army.
If he was alive today I would let him tell you how he was ?allowed to assimilate?. Second thought he would probably just smack you in the head with his cane.
