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: Within a few generations, they melt away into the whole of America, shifting the whole slightly at the same time. But rest assured, in the case of Germans, the "whole" changed more dramatically than any other immigrant group save the British and the Irish. They may be surpassed by Mexicans and Indians before long, but at present, they are one of the "big three" immigrant groups that completely altered the nature of who the USA is. So, I'm a bit confused as to the nature of the question? Is it about "communities" or "islands" of Germans like those in Russia and Romania that never assymilated and instead formed pockets of those holding on to their identity? 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.