Title: Why has German culture failed to preserve itself in American society? - Quora
Headings: Why has German culture failed to preserve itself in American society?
Why has German culture failed to preserve itself in American society?
Dan Holliday
Jon Mixon

Content: If so, that's because neither host society was amenable to the German people, their culture and/or their names. The USA, being an immigrant society, was unbelievably welcome to Germans who--by the third generation--typically considered themselves wholly American "of German ancestry" and nominally that to boot. World War One and World War Two only hastened the already inexorable muting of the large German identity in the US. It was happening long before that. By 1910 the massive German influx to the USA had all but tapered off. It was only a matter of 30 years anyway before the German identity in the US began to fade into the background. The two successive World Wars just sped up the process a bit. Any shame felt from those wars quickly wore off thereafter. The USA, with a bit of noted prejudice, openly celebrates and epitomizes the German immigrants to the point where by 1950 nobody much questioned their German ancestry. I grew up in the heart of "German America".