Ethnic Germans

World War II and the Holocaust. For German society, the current prevailing attitude is that a nation can only truly reckon with the past if they understand it. Das Boot is the perfect cultural representation of the idea that the only way Germany will be able to look to the future is through acknowledgement and realistic portrayal of the past. The modern confrontation with Germany’s Nazi past, like many German concepts, can be boiled…

this process he starts to fall in love with Caia. Caia is a jewish girl who faced one of war’s hardest obstacles and lost her parents during the fight. She hates the Germans because they were responsible for killing her parents. During a party on the beach that the boy’s cousin, Daniele, throws leads to an altercation. When the german people start singing the Nazis’s S.S. anthem, Caia…

society. German people do not believe these refugees belong in their beloved country. This sense of nationalism has lead to riots, violence, and public humiliation throughout the country. The heavy influx of immigrants is also starting to drastically change the racial makeup of the country, which is currently 95% German (CIA). Discrimination of immigrants in Germany stems from a previously homogeneous society, which has led to tension between the state…

Colonialism in the German Empire Within these two novels, there lies a common theme which aims to further develop and explore the state of the German mindset within the late 18th to early 19th century. One of these themes is the German belief of their racial superiority over all other existing races. The people of the German Empire believed that their racial purity and specific traits made them of a higher standard than those of any other ethnicity. For example, Rash states that the German…

Throughout the Industrial Revolution, many Germans immigrated to the United States in search of a new life. By 1830, 37% of the population spoke German, making it the most commonly spoken language after English. Yet the German immigrants ' ability to coexist with the rest of society was made especially difficult from the late 19th century to World War I. Scholars and authors can agree that American sentiment towards Germany and German-Americans shifted quite rapidly from being tolerant to…

about the revenge the people in the area sought for. Lowe mentioned how people would attack German soldiers, women that have been with German soldiers and even children. Everyone was looking for blood at this time. Part three, Lowe wrote about how people did not change about the race of people. The people still didn’t like other people of different ethnic groups. He mentioned how people of other races and ethnic groups treated others horribly. In the last part of the book he talks about the…

descent and other criteria for what Weber refers to as an ethnic group (Weber 1920, 385; 389). This is not to erase the importance of regional differences in Germany. Rather than being comprised of many different ethnic groups, Germany was considered a conglomeration of different groups that essentially came from the same descendent. While this played into the rhetoric of Nazi Germany, one must be careful not to place this belief in common ethnic decent only on the development of National…

Through writing about my racial identity and ethnicity, I will discuss how my life has been impacted by my ethnic identity and the society that I live in. I will also discuss the sociological aspect of my ethnic identity. I will discuss what my racial identity is, how I define it, how it has changed, and how I interact with others in the same group as me. It is important to discuss my own experiences to better understand the experiences of others. My racial identity is white. I am white but I…

preservation of their ethnic identity difficult (Withman, 1993: 37). An ethnic group can also actively change aspects of their ethnicity. This happened in the 1960’s when the Hausa traders in Nigeria converted en masse to a Stufi sect called Tijaniyya to justify a separate Hausa quarter (Joirnema, 2003: 38). A particular part of an ethnic identity or the identity as whole can bet strengthened or weakened or parts can get changed, all because it is in someone’s political interest. But ethnic…

America’s Cultural Diversity The America today, which is the most diverse country in the world has been built and formed from many countries cultural and ethnic influences. Throughout the American history there have been influxes of various groups from around the world. These ethnic influences have been documented since the 1400s when Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain and came across the indigenous people of America. America was settled by the Spanish and the British with such…