re: #72 Iwouldprefernotto

Kurt Vonnegut wrote about this. His family stopped speaking German as a second language and ignored most of their cultural heritage.

I really need to read some of his work. I’d expect that his family’s experience wasn’t unique. The anti-German backlash during the first world war was something else. I mean they even started calling sauerkraut- liberty cabbage. Forget what the silly name they gave dachshunds. Reading about it though reminded me of the whole silly anti-French outrages in the wake of the Iraq War. I even went to the Congressional Cafeteria when they were still serving “Freedom Fries.” All so stupid not least because of French Fries’ Belgian origin. And then reading that French’s mustard had to say that French was merely their founder’s surname not any indication of nationality. Ranting but man people get stupid.