Say again. I am from India. We respect Germans for their tech.knowledge. skill and discipline. Also Sanskrit / Samskruta and German languages hv many similarities.
It was far worse before columbias came here. Other native Indian tribes were slaughtering each other. Good thing westerners came here other wise they would all be wiped out
This is facts but out of the 9 million native Americans that exist today aren't full native Americans they been mixed with other ethic groups an my science teacher told me an said out of the those 9 million native Americans only 1 million is fully blood natives so it goes to show it was a genocide an a complete erase of there people it's so sad I just thought I had to say
I think they didn't have an option for Mexican until the 1930s. There were clearly Mexicans all over the SW US since the 1800s. I think New Mexico and Texas were basically Mexico until the 1850s.
Don't be ignorant the people that founded Mexico at the time were the Spainairds & Europeans, then came the Aztecas, Mexico is just the name of that country. But in general Mexicans have both the European and Amerindian ancestry.
@amaliacoria3063 What I am saying is they did not count anyone of mixed heritage. Only options were white or Indigenous. Most people would want to go with white back then because you would have more rights so lets get real here this nation was built on racism. Mexican to be more accurate is Meztizo which is Indigenous based with European admixtures varying in degrees. This can stretch from Central America to New Mexico and West Texas. So yeah don't assume someone is ignorant because you don't understand what I am trying to convey here. Stop projecting.
@@jonathanflores9874most Hispanic people who lived Mexican empire part of USA, were of Spainish european heritage, they invited anglos into Texas to help fight the native Americans
I guess the german roots got covered a lot during the two WWs. There was the stop of german language papers, peoples started to pronounce their german last names more english. The propaganda took a large part to deny that ancestory
Not sure a lot of Germans identified as German, since it's only a 150 year old country. But it's more like libertarian Germans that escaped the tyrannies in Europe vs Germans that embraced a more radical form after all the Godful once left.
It suggests that this is what people identify as when asked. It would be interesting to see a comparison with their genetics. Almost no Americans claim to be of English descent, and yet very many of them are.
Very true. The English are the baseline of all immigrant populations and set up the institutions of the modern USA. They are the only unhyphenated Americans, identifying simply as Americans. All hyphenated-Americans differentiate themselves from them. When did you last meet a self identifying "English-American"?
@@smokescreen2146 the video defines 'American' as those who identify only as American and don't know any other ethnic background. Some people grow up and never know their ethnic heritage. I've met people like that. It's odd to me, because our family was hyper-aware with a certain amount of pride in our Scandinavian, German and English roots, complete with those old world holiday traditions, traditional food, etc.
the german influence is notable in the US. it can be heard in the language (mostly word construction/reconstruction) and is very evident in the food: coleslaw, potato salad, hamburgers (hamburg steaks), hot dogs (frankfurt sausages), pretzels, scrapple and a myriad other pork products, sauerkraut, apple sauce, schnitzel, pot roast (sauerbraten), and many more, including black forest torte.
As a German, I see little to no German influence in the USA. It was destroyed during the First World War. Human rights no thanks was obviously the motto of the USA. And as a German you can't eat the supposedly German food in the USA.
I think the 'Americans' are so mixed that you cannot identify them as belonging to any particular ethnic group that arrived in the USA (and the natives). Most of my American relatives are like that. They have Spanish, English, Welsh, German, French and other surnames.
100%? Then you have not been able to go back far enough in your family history. If you are able to connect to aristocracy you will be descended from most nationalities in Europe, and you are almost certainly related to Ghengis Khan as most Europeans are.@@chicagomike
As an Irish person, so depressing seeing the Irish Americans increase dramatically in the 1840-1880 while our own home population was being wiped out. Deeply sad.
If you see closely.. As the Non European Americans Rises, America Declined . If you read US History, Basically America wasn't supposed to be the land of Immigrants, it's just a Thing politicians and Capitalists wanted for their Own benefit, no doubt these Guys were immigrants too, Washington said that such an Approach is not fine (He actually intended that He knew this is the way America will end)
Yes, this has always perplexed me. Logic indicates that this population demise was somehow fuelled by the dominating power....8 million Irish in 1840. 6.5 million today in total, including immigrants, of which 5 million in the Republic.
@tk-bz2ww The dramatic decline is a bit more complex than that since it's a mixture of overpopulation (too much strain on the land due to the population doubling in around 50 years), lack of opportunities at home and much more that cannot be simplified. If you're interested, I'd recommend reading more into it.
Nothing of the kind. From 1800 England’s 10 million compared to Ireland’s 8 million, growth compared to other Western European populations, whereas Ireland’s was deliberately prevented from developing and used as a food source for England, it was a deliberate policy of depopulation.
After ww1 germans were hated in the us even more than after ww2. They had to change their names to english ones, forbid german words like Sauerkraut (changed to "liberty cabbage") and in generaly, everything german related was frowned up.
I am a German who worked some time in the US. NYC and not the Midwest. I was the only one in a team of five who did not have a German family name. When I asked the guys about their heritage they all said Irish. ;)
Yes the scotts welsh scott irsh and ameicans is the reason why everyone speaks english. As well as the irish which im sure will some have anglo norman decent
Exactly. Also, this Video doesn't Account for Population levels at inception(1783), which was 3,000,000 Brits and a few thousand Germans, and no other nationalitiees (Ireland was part of Britain at that time - there were less than 100,000 Irish)
"people with English ancestry are more likely to just identify with just being American so the anglo group is alot bigger than it is" ... would not this drift towards 'American' be more significant for people of German ancestry, given certain world wars motivating people to want to distance themselves from their German ancestry??
It’s tricky, because most people in the US are probably of mixed ethnicity. I’m mostly Polish, but also of Slovak, Ukrainian, Jewish, British and Irish descent, and while I usually would say I’m ethnically Polish because of my family’s cultural practices, I’m only really slightly more Polish compared to the other listed ethnicities.
@@samimghafari5331 it can have multiple languages, my small country of 11 million people has three official languages and too be honest in the USA there are entire villages who speak nearly only german.
The German language was spoken by the German Americans until the First World War (1914-1918). Due to anti-German hate crimes, many German Americans were hiding their German roots by for example stopping spekking German or ‘translate’ their surnames. Former president Trump’s grandfather had the surname Trumpf when he was born. President Dwight Eisenhower’s German ancestor who migrated to the Unites States was born as Eisenhauer. So, that’s why many people do’nt see much of the German influence.
I've noticed a lot of the famous American celebrities have 3-6 different ancestries. Jessica Biel for example is Hungarian Jewish, German, English, French and Norwegian and Mark Wahlberg is of Swedish, Irish, English and French descent etc.
I always knew there were a lot of people of Irish and German heritage in the USA, but I had no idea they are still among the highest groups (the highest in the German case) up until today. I also thought there would be a larger share for Italian than there is, and I think a lot of the American category are actually of English heritage. I think English is one of those less likely to be claimed, but is actually quite common.
A lot of people my age in my area are in 1/2's and 1/4s for ancestry nowadays. Their parents were all 1/2's and full. Usually the first generation would marry some from the same country of origin then their kids seemed to marry someone different usually of a similar religious background. Lots of Polish/Irish/Italian ancestry mixes in my area from 2nd-3rd generation catholic marriages.
Are these numbers from immigration data taken at the border when people arrived? Or is the data gleaned from other means, such as a survey of what people believe to be their heritage?
Majority of people on my team at work are clearly of Irish descent. One French, one polish, and two, including me, have old English surnames. All different flavors of Caucasian.
From the 1850s on there have been more Irish in the USA than in Ireland itself. Ireland's population has just recently risen back to where it was in 1840 (before the famine). In the same time period the Irish population of the US has gone from 2 million to 33 million.
When we talk about the descendants of ancient Spanish America, we cannot talk about an ethnic group, since there are great differences between a Puerto Rican, a Mexican or an Argentine. The most important group today in the United States are the emigrants from Spanish America. As a Spaniard, it has always caught my attention that in the United States they talk about the Latin race, which would be like calling all the inhabitants of the former British Empire the British race. Furthermore, the Latin people themselves are the inhabitants of Lazio, a nearby region. To Rome, there are Latin or Romance languages that come from Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese,... but a Latin race never existed, because even the Roman legions were a mixture of different peoples.
@@vernicejillmagsino9603The fact that a large number of Italians had emigrated to Argentina does not mean that they are not a Spanish-American country. The descendants of Italians, Spaniards, Germans... from Argentina are not Italian Argentines, nor Hispanic Argentines, nor German Argentines, they are simply ARGENTINES. We must also not forget that the ten most common surnames in Argentina are Spanish.
@@M86KIA No hay que complicar tanto las cosas...aqui muchos somos primero gallegos, vascos, catalanes, andaluces y despues somos españoles. En Europa en general hya muchas mas dificultades para seguir a nuestros ancestros que en America o Australia, pues alli hay registros y se mantiene en las familias cuando llegaron y de donde sus antecesores. En Europa a eso nunca se le dio tanta importancia, asi si un aleman, irlandes, italiano, venia a vivir a España, lo unico que queda de rastro es su apellido, en muchos casos espanolizado, pero no les preguntes a sus descendiente ni de donde vino su antepasado ni cuando se asentó en España, salvo que haya sido hace un par de generaciones...
Easily one of my favorite channels. I enjoy the scope and variety of topics you explore. I've no idea the voodoo you've hexed me with to keep me watching those damn numbers increase or decrease with no supportive video, animation, CTA thumbnails, clickbait thumbnails, soothing (or any other kind of) narration, fancy editing, fancy music, fancy eye candy (read: T&A), but there it is, I'm hooked. Well done... but damn you!
It’s curious how white Europeans ancestry is divided in countries, Asian ancestry is divided in countries, Latin American ancestry is divided in countries and suddenly all the African ancestry is under the single category “ African American “ and never divided in different African countries or black Caribbean countries (like Jamaicans or Haitians that I imagine are considered as African Americans). I wonder from the African American category which country is the main source of ancestry, Nigeria?, Congo? Senegal? It is something that is never tracked like it is on other ethnicities.
Isn' it obvious? The african americans on this video are salves first then descendent of slaves and nobody kept track of their origins. Their origins where probably already lost when still waitting to be bought in costal Africans slave markets and the European who bought them sure didn't care. The more recent African immigrants are probably divided by countries but none of them would make it in the top 17 in numbers, so none of them would appear in this video anyway.
That is completely wrong. The US Census is wrong and because it's based on self-identifying. Many Americans change their minds about their identity every decade. Mostly Americans lies also about their Ancestry because they like to be different than being English, Scottish, Irish or Welsh. I meet Americans which claimed to be Japanese or Korean but have English or Irish surname. For Example: English Ancestry: In the 1980 Census, over 49 million 49.698.035 Americans claimed English ancestry. At 26.34%, this was the largest group amongst the 188 million people who reported at least one ancestry. In the 2019 Census only 23.593.434 Americans claimed English ancestry 7.7% of the US population. Irish Ancestry: In the 1980 Census, over 40 Millionen people claimed Irish ancestry and today only claimed to be Irish 31,517,030 9.7% of the US population. Scottish Americans: In the 1980 Census 10.048.816 million people 4.44% claimed Scottish ancestry and today only 5.298.861 1.6% of the US population. Scotch-Irish Ancestry: Self-identified "Scotch-Irish" 2004 27 million people 9.2% of the U.S population and today 3.011.165 million people 0.9% of the U.S population. Welsh Americans: Today 1.956.225 people claimed to be Welsh. That´s only 0.6% of the U.S population but 3.8% of American appear to bear a Welsh surname. Americans which claimed to have German ancestry is 44 Million People 13% of the US population. Majority of them are just claimed to be partly German not fully. Which is mostly made up because it's self reported ancestry. 15 Million from 44 Million has self reported german ancestry alone. Thats also the only believable and realistic number for Germans in the United States. But 44 Million is made up like Christmas Pickles tradition what Americans believe is a German tradition which don't even exists in Germany. If Germans would make such a high number. As in the Census, there would be cultural influence. Such as Migrants' food consumption or Holidays. Americans celebrate Irish holidays such as Halloween and St. Patrick's Day. There is no German public holiday in the U.S which should have a higher impact with such numbers. Then why do Americans live in American colony houses which came from English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh settlers to this day and not in the German houses called ,,Fachwerkhaus" ? Town Names in the Unites States are very rare but aren't even German historical. Example Germantown: Although the arrival by ship of the later founders of Germantown in Philadelphia on October 6, 1683, was later to provide the date for German-American Day, a holiday in the United States, historical research has shown that nearly all of the first thirteen Quaker and Mennonite families were in fact Dutch rather than Germans. Another Example: Schaumburg before known as Sarahs Grove: The original 1842 township survey names the grove (immediately west of the center of the township, in sections 21 and 22) as Sarah's Grove. Three families lived near a grove of woods on the northwest end of the township, and each family had a woman named Sarah 'Sarah McChesney, Sarah Frisbe, and Sarah Smith'. At a township meeting in 1850, citizens debated new names for the town. A wealthy landowner named Friedrich Heinrich Nerge, at one point during the meeting, slammed his fist on the table and yelled in Low German, "Schaumburg schall et heiten!" The English translation: "It will be called Schaumburg!". At that point, the township became officially called Schaumburg. Germans do not adapt to the respective culture. They have always been considered stubborn. See Brazil or Argentina or today in Mallorca, Spain. The German influence is much larger in these countries than in the US despite the lower numbers. They celebrate their holidays there and also have their bread culture.
American is not a nationality, Mr. Yoshida. American is and will always be a historical and continental identity like European, Asian and African that refers to all people from sll countries of AMERICA, an entire continent since 1507, composed of 35 countries, officially discovered and named in the South by the Catholics and not by a bunch of Protestants Pilgrims who arrived here centuries later behind us when everything had already been discovered and named and didn't spend a cent n the enterprise of the discovery of America. America and American refer to the discovery, conquest and colonisation of the American continent by the Catholics. You should learn the America's history properly and don't trust everything your winners tell you.
It's also wrong because they never count all the illegals properly, it's more like 40 million Mexicans and 60 million illegal ones, so it's more like 100,000,000 just go to any medical clinic on a Sunday or social security office
@@siriemapantanal6894 From the wikipedia page about ehtnicity in USA: "However, demographers regard the reported number of English Americans as a statistical error, as the index of inconsistency is high and *many, if not most, Americans from English stock have a tendency to identify simply as Americans or, if of mixed European ancestry, with a different European ethnic group.["* This is consistent with what the OP said. It seems Americans tend to "change their mind" about their nationality. Wouldn't be surprising.
The US government in the 1920s went to a lot of trouble to identify the ethnicity of white americans,according to them there was 39.2 million from the UK and another 10.6 million from the Irish Republic and another 4 million Canadians ,i would think about 2.5 million who where of British or Irish descent .At the same time they estimated there where 15.5 million Germans ,add Swiss Germans ,Austrians and Eastern European Germans for a total of about 18 million .Since then the white population has doubled
A century later it's still trouble 😂 Sociologists doubt American nation, looks like just a some people, living in same territory more or less called united as over countries. Regarding more then 70% would like to live USA forever with losing sitezenship (most prefered country proclaimed Canada), this point of view sounds resonable
Esa gente es de origen Bárbara y Celta. Los bárbaros anglos, pictus,...y demás. No tenían sentido de pertenencia, entonces nunca se preocupo más que por su día a día. Osea no esperes algo más de ellos. Del pueblo Celta tuvieron orden tras toparse con los romanos, osea tienen sentido de pertenencia, por lo cual existe la preocupación por el devenir por eso los irlandés aumentaron su población como se esperaba.
@@lindamuzza5450 Of course they are,but the point i was making is that for the main european ancestries these figures above are wrong !The German figure according to the US government is too high and the figure for the British Isles is too low .There where 3.462 million Italians
@Gozhda Hi! Great video! But wait, I thought the 'American' 🇺🇸 meant _'Native Americans',_ the original peoples. But they have a separate bar?? What do you mean by _American_ here, that 6th largest one, below 🏴-by 2023??
On this graph is the group titled "American" essentially a default category? ...meaning that they either don't know what their heritage is or that it's too compounded to claim any particular clear line of ethnicity?
Genetic studies indicate that most of the ancestry of the so-called Caucasians came from British and Irish, on the other hand they have a high admixture with Germanics and Italians, in addition to an average of 2% admixture with African Americans. Most of the ancestry of African Americans came from West Africa, highlighting ethnicities of Bantu and Yoruba origin, with a mixture of 20% white or Caucasian. Hispanics and Latinos are those who present the highest levels of native ancestry in America with 40%, and with a high degree of Mediterranean miscegenation of 60%, highlighting the Iberian Peninsula and to a lesser extent Italians, Arabs and North Africans, also the component from Sub-Saharan Africa reaches up to 9%.
Fun fact, Australia is the only country in the world where more Americans choose to live rather than the amount of people from Australia that choose to live in America.
My dad worked for a company years ago which had a branch office in Australia. The company really didn't like sending employees "down under" to work because once there the employees didn't and often wouldn't come back.
Something important to bear in mind with this video, whenever you see a large increase in a particular ethnicity, it's usually because of some kinds of strife causing them to migrate. So you get a massive wave of Irish in the 1840s because of the Irish famine. German's in the latter 19th century because of German wars of unification. Jews in around 1900 because of pogroms and anti semitism in Eastern Europe. You don't get similar migration from England or France because they were developed and affluent. The pattern continues today with migration from Mexico, many fleeing Mexico due gang violence and other problems there.
as of today, Mexico is not a violent country and certainly not poor those feeing usually from other central americans nations like Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Cubans and Venezuelans.. the reason why there are so many mexicans in US is because historically California, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas used to be part of MEXICO until USA stole it during american-mexican civil war.
Bueno, en cuanto a México, porque Estados Unidos robó poco más de la mitad del territorio mexicano (aunque la escuela nos enseña que fue un tratado para liquidar una deuda) y la frontera cruzó el terreno, dejando a muchos mexicanos del lado estadounidense, y aún así se quejan de los mexicanos cuando los mexicanos van a sus tierras como Texas, Los Angeles, Nuevo México, Chicago... etc...
@@arthurmata6068yes, Mexico once had a portion of the current US. Many countries around the world were once controlled by other countries/empires. Does that mean the land didn't belong to them? Wars happen and land changes who controls it. There is no problem with people from any country coming to the USA. As long as it's done the right/legal way.
The germans migrated because life was miserable in Germany and Germany couldn't sustain the massive population growth of the industrial revolution. Europe's population wiuld be a lot higher if it had the time to feed those populations.
I've traced most of my ancestors back to the generations that crossed the Atlantic. They include English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, German, and French. So which bar am I in? Great chart, BTW.
Quite interesting, but cant really make much of it, unless the data sources and model development are explained, and made available, in description. Do such detailed numbers across the full time span reported even exist? Thus, i imagine there is some estimating here, and heavily so in the early years. if so, how were numbers generated, and what justifies/validates the estimations?
@@kelvinkind7496here in Chicago our population is 33% white, 29.8% non-white Hispanic, 29.1% black/African and about 6% Asian. We are a diverse city 😁 with no majority racial or ethnic group. Cook county is 40% white, 26% black/African American, 15% non-white Hispanic and about 10% Asian and 9% is other.
As someone living in Europe, it always seem strange when Americans call themselves, for example, Irish, but when you ask them who in their family came from Ireland, they don't know. Given we all have 4 grandparents, thats 8 great grand parent and 16 great great grand parents, in a country as diverse as the USA, I am always suprised so many people seem to know so precisely their background. X
Waves of immigration would often come all at once and settle in a particular area where other people of the same heritage already live. For example, my great-great grandparents generation came from Ireland to Boston, along with millions of other Irish people. All the people in the neighborhood they lived in would have been Irish immigrants, and so the people they met and married were also most likely to be Irish immigrants. For example, traditionally South Boston was an Irish neighborhood, while The North End was Italian. Its still like this to some extent, South Boston has a big St. Patrick's day parade and lots of Irish bars and pubs, while The North End has excellent Italian restaurants, pizzerias and cafes on every corner. But this is slowly changing since immigration is not coming from Europe is large numbers anymore, but the third world.
That accounts for the people who just say they are American and leave it at that. If someone were to ask me that is what I’d tell them since, even with doing a DNA heritage test, there is no pinpointing a specific place of origin. I even have a percentage of unidentifiable DNA. 😂
@@episdosas9949My grandfather's grandmother came from Norway. That's my great great grandmother. That technically makes me 1/16th Norwegian. To my mind, I can't really claim to be Norwegian, having never been there and having no other Norwegian relatives that I know of. X
@@oz25 thats your history and your mind. its not the same for everyone. murica has been a very segregated place. my parents born in murica, were both grand children of mexicans. all great grandparents from one country. just like it can be for other people. and might not know all their names. immigrating from other places, people even changed their last names or lost information.
Because American is the group of people who been in this country for so long that they just want to label themselves as American Their actual ethnicity is not known. Also, the US census.
And they did not count the Mexican civilians that were in the occupied states, although the US government later killed them and gave those lands to Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
I am sure someone has asked this, but what is the data source? As a history teacher, this makes sense, but where do the numbers come from? I have an Italian name, but an English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, etc. I identify as Northwestern Europe rather than any nation state.
I'm surprised Chinese and Indian aren't a lot more in 2023. It feels like everywhere you look these days you see Chinese or Indian in the US. In Canada Mandarin has practically become the 2nd language (eg on ATMs you have the option of English or Mandarin)
@@josesaavedra6106 Indians are growing but still no where close to Chinese - who literally have streets and malls dedicated to them, you walk in there and you're in Shanghai or Beijing lol
Firstly you probably live in a state or city where Indians and Chinese like me are a lot more common . A lot of people you think are Chinese may have been Korean , Vietnamese or Filipino .
Good video 👍 I'm glad you broke it down into the correct ethnic groups of English 🏴, Scottish 🏴 and Welsh 🏴 rather than just lumping us all together as British 🇬🇧
It's simple, Britain includes Ireland Scotland Wales England and Cornwall! Ireland was British Commonwealth too, you better believe it buddy, get an old copy of the King James Bible, King James also ruled Ireland. It was the Roman Empire that called it Britain by the way. AKA the British isles
@@blake9358 Ireland is not part of Great Britain. England, Scotland and Wales make up Great Britain. When you add northern Ireland to Great Britain it becomes the United Kingdom and when you add the Republic of Ireland to the United Kingdom it becomes the British isles. Also Cornwall is part of England not a constituent country of the UK and it was the norman french king Stephen of England that first conquered parts of Ireland.
"minoritys" out number my Nordic brethren manytimes over, also we arrived via New Amsterdam making us Native Americans, and those of us who are non Christianized, are tribal peoples as well. Interesting we have catogorized as White and majority.
I dispute UA-cam vloggers and their so called statistics, I don't believe that more German than English migrants settled in the US, why was the US a British crown colony like Australia and New Zealand and Canada before the war of independence, that was sparked by the resentment of unrealistic taxes imposed by the British King? And we have Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts. And how can there be more than 3 million Swedish migrants, Sweden has only like 7 million people in it today and half of them were born in Africa
Since the natives are already in their own category on the list, this should be plainly obvious not the answer it’s just people who called themselves American and nothing else
Those who identify themselves as simply American are primarily of English and Scottish descent. Their ancestry just goes too far back so they stopped identifying with the country of origin where they ancestors came from.
In 1982 their were 48 million Americans descended from the English....then they changed the census to say American instead of English.... English are the largest ethnic group in America this video is wrong
@@RS__7 this is a lie. Where do you get your research from? We have DNA tests now to prove where we come from. Stop spreading misinformation. My family is from Schleswig-Holstein. Where are you from?
The largest "ethnic" group of the US is English it's just they are underrepresented in the figures because not many with English ancestry claim it or are aware of it. Many just call themselves American. Look at the most common surnames of the US and most are English or British names 7 out of 10 with the rest being Spanish/Mexican surnames (3 out of 10).
Did you know that many European immigrants (Germans for instance) Anglicised their names (example “Schmidt” to “Smith”) to help fit better into society? I don’t doubt that the English (or perhaps more to the point British) still have the largest gene pool present in the US. It’s all very mixed now though
@@daguckste9151 Not Germany if that's what you're implying? The Anglo Saxons invaded but they didn't replace the whole indigenous population. DNA shows they were a small minority. Also after over a 1000 years of assimilation it's fair to call them English. Otherwise we could say everybody is east African because that's where humans originate
@@jameshunter7303 Yes, I knew that. It IS all very mixed though, you're right. People used to want to fit in more so they anglicised their names. Today we have the opposite- people want to stand out more or sound exotic so they will call themselves Irish if they have one Irish grandmother.
@@jameshunter7303 Yeah I think many Finnish people with the name that meant "hill" in Finnish took the English name Hill when they arrived. The immigration officials probably spent about 10 seconds helping them decide.
There is almost more people with Norwegian ancestry living in USA than there is Norwegians living in Norway current population is 5,488,984 Its especially intresting considering Norway has not had wars and unstability apart form WW2 but we where very poor Before the industrial revolution came to us early 1900
Robert Fergusson writes about the Norvegians in his book "Scandinavians- In Search of the Soul of the North". A unique look into their culture, history, and politics.What a great, hard-working people! I am familiar with many of them settling in the prairies of Minnesota and later moving on west to Oregon.
I bet he can't In Europe it is Strictly prohibited by law to do so. if we are talking about Strict Ethnicity. Some commission has a legal framework to do this survey but cannot put the data public.
@@arte0021 of course like in France there is no way to know the amount of Muslim people for instance, we know is around 8 % but those are estimation not propers survey. The use of those data could fall into bad hands... Prohibited, unless you have the legal Framework like the ECRI did.
Im always interested how the american accent developed. I mean at one point when under british rule. Did most people speak with an english accent. Its the same with australia and canada. Same language but unique accent.
As I understand it, the American accent is closer to the original English one but still quite far removed from it. The classic English accents are rather new-ish.
considering the vietnamese have plenty of footprints in each state (nail salons, pho restaurants, little saigon, etc..); it's crazy to know that we don't even show up in the entire video
America was built in the 1600s and 1700s everything after that was just "fleshing it out" and expansion. Also what about the African Americans not know if they count as diversity but didn't they literally build the country e.g. white House, Washington DC, roads, building and culture plus picking cotton and agriculture. And the Navtives probably did not not build the the U.S as a state/civilization in the way that The Britsh and the slave did but in the late 1800s they had a massive impact on how the u.s evolved as well as the culture.
@@chinelooliver3936his brain isnt ready for that, the fact that for alot of the countrys history the majority of the economy was built off of black labor, literally making america one of the richest countries even pre industrialization, not even mentioning the various social/cultural advancements many americans enjoy today came from african americans
How about the Africans who compose 15% of the population of this country, the largest population of black people in the American continent.? Don't they count or exist?
@@kurtdrexler9888- you were not “ Germans” then but Saxons , Bavarians , Wittenbergers etc. You only became Germans in 1870 ish . A bit like the Italians. And you’ve been a pain in the arse ever since 🤷🏻🤔😲🤦🏻♂️🤣😘
Ja aber Deutschland ist viel weiter vorne wenn es um "Soziale" Staaten geht! 🤣🤣 The ancestry didn't help the USA learn the same system unfortunately ☠️
Propongo un negocio. Estados Unidos de América, de Alaska a Tierra del Fuego, cambiamos banderas por mayoría en idioma y cultura. País trilingüe y nultirracial con organización gringa.
It's really a shame how the ethnic Germans were discriminated against from 1917 onwards, especially by the English speakers, and they had nothing to do with the Third Reich either. One must not forget that most Americans have German roots.
They should not have migrated to an English civilization then. But they have dropped their germaness and are well integrated into the the culture and principles and language of the society mainly because the week will to drop their culture and integrate something I fear will never happen with the more recent migrants.
I guess these people are mixed raced. For example, they have 1/4 German, 1/4 Italian, 1/4 English, 1/4 French blood, so it's hard for them to identify themselves as any of these races. Instead, it's more appropriate to describe them as American race
It’s not a well known fact, its only taught if you take German in the US, but the US congress had a debate in 1800’s on whether or not to make the official language of the US German. There was a short period of time where the top selling newspaper was in German
Interesting how French has always been one of the largest groups, yet there are very few places in the country with a distinctive “Little France” cultural enclaves.
@@davehoward22 My family has lived in the South West; New Mexico Colorado for several centuries...I was surprised to learn, after getting my DNA results and always identifying as Mexican American that I have French as the highest percentage... France 24% Indigenous Americas-Mexico 22% Basque 20% Spain 18% Indigenous Americas-North 4% Portugal 3% Northern Africa 2% Indigenous Americas-Central 2% Sweden & Denmark 2% Mali 1% Jewish 1% Wales 1%...I love my Ethnicity!
The English or British ( one of three originals groups that built it in the 1600s and 1700s) . The original three are the British colonist, the African American slaves and the Navtive Americans. It was just them for 200+ years.
@@jackslater5886 this is not a countrywide DNA test, which would be impossible to do this is a question on what your ancestry is done by the US government otherwise people will just put down American that simple
Wow I had no idea there was so many Germans over there, though that explains why they make such a big deal of things like Oktoberfest and ofc St Patricks day for the Irish.
The Swiss side of my family came here in the 1600s, the Irish in the 1850s and 60s, and the Germans in the 1870s. I'm actually surprised the Swiss were so well represented until the mid 1800s.
Switzerland has been one of the poorest country of Europe for centuries due its harsh mountain climate, scarce soil, no natural worthy ressources (gold, petrol or gas), no sea or ocean, and no colonies abroad. The country started developing mostly after WW II. I have a lot of pictures from my grandparents (mountain farmers) and I was lucky enough to know them as well. They lived a hard autarcic life in the Alps, working the steep land all by hand, just like Zanskari still do today. If Switzerland is rich nowadays, it is mainly due to its intelligent direct democracy, and its hard working trustful people.
@@osen3182 Why are you laughing? Its true. Switzerland was very poor. Unimaginable, but there clever politics, being neutral, gave them the chance to become wealthier.
As a typical Brazilian, I have a diverse ancestral background including Brazilian Native Indians, Portuguese, and Belgian people, to name a few. I guess I would say the same. I am Brazilian. 😃
A lot of White Americans who list their ancestry as "American" are actually of English and Scots-Irish descent. If we counted them with those of English ancestry as one group, they'd actually outnumber the Germans. Just throwing that out there.
No wonder how America accomplished so much.. German engineering ✌️✌️
The downfall of the US is coherent with the rise of non european ethnical groups.
No, no.
It was slavery.
Yea... If not Germany, there world didint exist 😂😂😂
@@Radoslaw9292 So, if it weren't for the German settlers, the Africans wouldn't have been enslaved? Really?
Say again. I am from India. We respect Germans for their tech.knowledge. skill and discipline. Also Sanskrit / Samskruta and German languages hv many similarities.
Seeing that Native American number drop so significantly starting in 1880 hit a lot harder than I thought it would
I felt the same way
It was far worse before columbias came here. Other native Indian tribes were slaughtering each other. Good thing westerners came here other wise they would all be wiped out
Damn. That's messed up, straight genocide.
This is facts but out of the 9 million native Americans that exist today aren't full native Americans they been mixed with other ethic groups an my science teacher told me an said out of the those 9 million native Americans only 1 million is fully blood natives so it goes to show it was a genocide an a complete erase of there people it's so sad I just thought I had to say
I think they didn't have an option for Mexican until the 1930s. There were clearly Mexicans all over the SW US since the 1800s. I think New Mexico and Texas were basically Mexico until the 1850s.
Don't be ignorant the people that founded Mexico at the time were the Spainairds & Europeans, then came the Aztecas, Mexico is just the name of that country. But in general Mexicans have both the European and Amerindian ancestry.
@amaliacoria3063 What I am saying is they did not count anyone of mixed heritage. Only options were white or Indigenous. Most people would want to go with white back then because you would have more rights so lets get real here this nation was built on racism. Mexican to be more accurate is Meztizo which is Indigenous based with European admixtures varying in degrees. This can stretch from Central America to New Mexico and West Texas. So yeah don't assume someone is ignorant because you don't understand what I am trying to convey here. Stop projecting.
The Mexicans have been there forever. Texas was literally taken from Mexico. And the native people didn't have a border there
@@jonathanflores9874most Hispanic people who lived Mexican empire part of USA, were of Spainish european heritage, they invited anglos into Texas to help fight the native Americans
The aztecs were first than Spaniards....@@amaliacoria3063
I guess the german roots got covered a lot during the two WWs. There was the stop of german language papers, peoples started to pronounce their german last names more english. The propaganda took a large part to deny that ancestory
Yup, like for example Schmidt --> Smith
and even Eisenhower who fought against nazists had German roots. his original last name was Eisenhauer
If every american of german descent embraced their roots as strongly as the newcomers they would be in for a shock.
The soy hun vs the Chad Woodrow Wilson.
Lol
seems that during WW2, Americans vs Germans is like Germans vs Germans
😂😂😂
Not sure a lot of Germans identified as German, since it's only a 150 year old country. But it's more like libertarian Germans that escaped the tyrannies in Europe vs Germans that embraced a more radical form after all the Godful once left.
His figures are wrong as have been pointed out by others including the 1922 census that has English as the largest group.
I’m still at 1908 and thinking to myself this is about to get really interesting…😂
Most great scientists of us in ww2 were of German ancestry
It suggests that this is what people identify as when asked. It would be interesting to see a comparison with their genetics. Almost no Americans claim to be of English descent, and yet very many of them are.
First of all, whoa it's lindybeige! Second, I agree!
Very true. The English are the baseline of all immigrant populations and set up the institutions of the modern USA. They are the only unhyphenated Americans, identifying simply as Americans. All hyphenated-Americans differentiate themselves from them. When did you last meet a self identifying "English-American"?
lol 20 million americans in america. yeah right
Yes, especially many of the people who now self identify as African-American, Irish and German.
@@smokescreen2146 the video defines 'American' as those who identify only as American and don't know any other ethnic background. Some people grow up and never know their ethnic heritage. I've met people like that. It's odd to me, because our family was hyper-aware with a certain amount of pride in our Scandinavian, German and English roots, complete with those old world holiday traditions, traditional food, etc.
Wonderful video.
the german influence is notable in the US. it can be heard in the language (mostly word construction/reconstruction) and is very evident in the food: coleslaw, potato salad, hamburgers (hamburg steaks), hot dogs (frankfurt sausages), pretzels, scrapple and a myriad other pork products, sauerkraut, apple sauce, schnitzel, pot roast (sauerbraten), and many more, including black forest torte.
Like them, The metric system should also do its good!!
But you cannot take away the original Anglo roots of America
Well, we got a lot of Italian influence as well.
As a German, I see little to no German influence in the USA. It was destroyed during the First World War. Human rights no thanks was obviously the motto of the USA. And as a German you can't eat the supposedly German food in the USA.
Yes, the United States educational system is largely derived and evolved from the German model at that time.
United States of Germany. 😂
Jha whol..argentinien jetz
All owned by Js
@@cesara3348 JAWOHL- ist richtig.
A lot emigrated to America because of warring in Germany and religious persecution.
@@joemiller9931 ich verstehe cheee
I think the 'Americans' are so mixed that you cannot identify them as belonging to any particular ethnic group that arrived in the USA (and the natives). Most of my American relatives are like that. They have Spanish, English, Welsh, German, French and other surnames.
Not true always. I am hundred percent from Yugoslavia both Croat and Serb. Spainish, Mexican or Puerto Rican.
@@chicagomike ?
100%? Then you have not been able to go back far enough in your family history. If you are able to connect to aristocracy you will be descended from most nationalities in Europe, and you are almost certainly related to Ghengis Khan as most Europeans are.@@chicagomike
We are the modern day ROMAN EMPIRE.
@@pdcdesign9632Lol you do know India has more diversity yeah?
Damn, that was fascinating. 😯
As an Irish person, so depressing seeing the Irish Americans increase dramatically in the 1840-1880 while our own home population was being wiped out. Deeply sad.
If you see closely..
As the Non European Americans Rises, America Declined .
If you read US History, Basically America wasn't supposed to be the land of Immigrants, it's just a Thing politicians and Capitalists wanted for their Own benefit, no doubt these Guys were immigrants too, Washington said that such an Approach is not fine (He actually intended that He knew this is the way America will end)
Yes, this has always perplexed me. Logic indicates that this population demise was somehow fuelled by the dominating power....8 million Irish in 1840. 6.5 million today in total, including immigrants, of which 5 million in the Republic.
Probably comes down to a religious response from the largely Protestant-driven dominating power against the Catholic Irish.
@tk-bz2ww The dramatic decline is a bit more complex than that since it's a mixture of overpopulation (too much strain on the land due to the population doubling in around 50 years), lack of opportunities at home and much more that cannot be simplified. If you're interested, I'd recommend reading more into it.
Nothing of the kind. From 1800 England’s 10 million compared to Ireland’s 8 million, growth compared to other Western European populations, whereas Ireland’s was deliberately prevented from developing and used as a food source for England, it was a deliberate policy of depopulation.
Lots of Germans. But you don't see as many German last names in the US? I'm guessing they changed them due to the war. Like from Schmidt to Smith.
because of assimilation
Changed at Ellis Island. Come to Wisconsin- you will see MANY German surnames!
After ww1 germans were hated in the us even more than after ww2. They had to change their names to english ones, forbid german words like Sauerkraut (changed to "liberty cabbage") and in generaly, everything german related was frowned up.
Even the German shepherd became Alsatian in the UK
I am a German who worked some time in the US. NYC and not the Midwest. I was the only one in a team of five who did not have a German family name. When I asked the guys about their heritage they all said Irish. ;)
people with English ancestry are more likely to just identify with just being American so the anglo group is alot bigger than it is
cope, just admit that amerimuttts are mixed with the majority of them being German
Yes the scotts welsh scott irsh and ameicans is the reason why everyone speaks english. As well as the irish which im sure will some have anglo norman decent
Exactly. Also, this Video doesn't Account for Population levels at inception(1783), which was 3,000,000 Brits and a few thousand Germans, and no other nationalitiees (Ireland was part of Britain at that time - there were less than 100,000 Irish)
And if someone are half Norwegian and half English they will only share the English part for some reason
"people with English ancestry are more likely to just identify with just being American so the anglo group is alot bigger than it is" ... would not this drift towards 'American' be more significant for people of German ancestry, given certain world wars motivating people to want to distance themselves from their German ancestry??
This blew my mind.
It’s tricky, because most people in the US are probably of mixed ethnicity. I’m mostly Polish, but also of Slovak, Ukrainian, Jewish, British and Irish descent, and while I usually would say I’m ethnically Polish because of my family’s cultural practices, I’m only really slightly more Polish compared to the other listed ethnicities.
Jewish is not a race. LOL
Pole, Ukrainian, Slovak are absolutely related peoples, so it’s strange to hear them listed
What type of British are you ?
@@dragoslavdelavega558Actually, it is mate. Jews are a race.
@@user-wu9gr9xm8pconfused souls, using labels such as mexican, Jewish ect to describe genetic backgrounds is dumb
Still don’t understand why german isn’t the second language of the state
Edit: stop tf commenting. Its been 8 months now.
Assimilation
Cause the government had and has a formal language English ❤
@@samimghafari5331 it can have multiple languages, my small country of 11 million people has three official languages and too be honest in the USA there are entire villages who speak nearly only german.
The German language was spoken by the German Americans until the First World War (1914-1918). Due to anti-German hate crimes, many German Americans were hiding their German roots by for example stopping spekking German or ‘translate’ their surnames.
Former president Trump’s grandfather had the surname Trumpf when he was born. President Dwight Eisenhower’s German ancestor who migrated to the Unites States was born as Eisenhauer.
So, that’s why many people do’nt see much of the German influence.
Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache
Thanks! That explains a lot of things.
I've noticed a lot of the famous American celebrities have 3-6 different ancestries. Jessica Biel for example is Hungarian Jewish, German, English, French and Norwegian and Mark Wahlberg is of Swedish, Irish, English and French descent etc.
You were supposed to give some examples of famous people.
This explains a lot...
I always knew there were a lot of people of Irish and German heritage in the USA, but I had no idea they are still among the highest groups (the highest in the German case) up until today. I also thought there would be a larger share for Italian than there is, and I think a lot of the American category are actually of English heritage. I think English is one of those less likely to be claimed, but is actually quite common.
Now I understand why gringos are racist. German genetics
Of all the people that came to America Italians returned to their home country more than anyone.
@@fenet8627beaner got mad
Yes, they still
Also, Italian settled more in the cities and the culture thrived jointly. Many of Germans moved to the country and adapted…eventually.
I had a vague idea that there were tons of people of German ancestry in the USA but this really puts things into perspective.
Tons? From what I see in the grafic above they are below the English, Africans and Irish.
Can you not count? Those of German ancestry have been at the top of this list for over 150 years. Watch the whole video. @@siriemapantanal6894
Yes we're most likely much more successful because of the large percentage of germans.
Why is that?
@@siriemapantanal6894 clearly you didnt watch the whole video then ^^
A lot of people my age in my area are in 1/2's and 1/4s for ancestry nowadays. Their parents were all 1/2's and full. Usually the first generation would marry some from the same country of origin then their kids seemed to marry someone different usually of a similar religious background. Lots of Polish/Irish/Italian ancestry mixes in my area from 2nd-3rd generation catholic marriages.
Are these numbers from immigration data taken at the border when people arrived? Or is the data gleaned from other means, such as a survey of what people believe to be their heritage?
This is US census population data
it's crazy how there is 33 million irish ppl in usa while irish ppl in ireland almost 5 million
Majority of people on my team at work are clearly of Irish descent. One French, one polish, and two, including me, have old English surnames. All different flavors of Caucasian.
В мире 10 миллионов армян. Но в Армении живёт только 3 миллиона.
Is this birth rate too.
The true number of Irish people in usa is 75,000 and that number is dwindling
@@TheOpethOfMastodon my mom is Norwegian descent
From the 1850s on there have been more Irish in the USA than in Ireland itself. Ireland's population has just recently risen back to where it was in 1840 (before the famine). In the same time period the Irish population of the US has gone from 2 million to 33 million.
Crazy
At this point they are not more irish
?@@elfastzarate2971
Catholic beliefs is have as many children as possible. Now the Hispanic blindly believe in the sane nonsense.
they are not Irish
When we talk about the descendants of ancient Spanish America, we cannot talk about an ethnic group, since there are great differences between a Puerto Rican, a Mexican or an Argentine. The most important group today in the United States are the emigrants from Spanish America. As a Spaniard, it has always caught my attention that in the United States they talk about the Latin race, which would be like calling all the inhabitants of the former British Empire the British race. Furthermore, the Latin people themselves are the inhabitants of Lazio, a nearby region. To Rome, there are Latin or Romance languages that come from Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese,... but a Latin race never existed, because even the Roman legions were a mixture of different peoples.
Now, tell that to a United statian….they won’t comprehend so many well words put right
Argentines in the US could be Italian Americans too because Argentina has a largest Italian community
@@vernicejillmagsino9603The fact that a large number of Italians had emigrated to Argentina does not mean that they are not a Spanish-American country. The descendants of Italians, Spaniards, Germans... from Argentina are not Italian Argentines, nor Hispanic Argentines, nor German Argentines, they are simply ARGENTINES. We must also not forget that the ten most common surnames in Argentina are Spanish.
@@M86KIA No hay que complicar tanto las cosas...aqui muchos somos primero gallegos, vascos, catalanes, andaluces y despues somos españoles. En Europa en general hya muchas mas dificultades para seguir a nuestros ancestros que en America o Australia, pues alli hay registros y se mantiene en las familias cuando llegaron y de donde sus antecesores. En Europa a eso nunca se le dio tanta importancia, asi si un aleman, irlandes, italiano, venia a vivir a España, lo unico que queda de rastro es su apellido, en muchos casos espanolizado, pero no les preguntes a sus descendiente ni de donde vino su antepasado ni cuando se asentó en España, salvo que haya sido hace un par de generaciones...
"Latino" is a word often ridiculed by white Americans because it's a stupid term.
German language was almost adopted as official language in the US!
It is NASA
I mean technically The US doesn't have a official language English is our "De Facto" while Spanish is our secondary "De Facto"
Germans are smart ppl who learned English and assimilated well. 👍
is almost the same i can read german an i don´t even know the rules @@shinji1264
thats a legend my friend.
Easily one of my favorite channels. I enjoy the scope and variety of topics you explore. I've no idea the voodoo you've hexed me with to keep me watching those damn numbers increase or decrease with no supportive video, animation, CTA thumbnails, clickbait thumbnails, soothing (or any other kind of) narration, fancy editing, fancy music, fancy eye candy (read: T&A), but there it is, I'm hooked. Well done... but damn you!
It’s curious how white Europeans ancestry is divided in countries, Asian ancestry is divided in countries, Latin American ancestry is divided in countries and suddenly all the African ancestry is under the single category “ African American “ and never divided in different African countries or black Caribbean countries (like Jamaicans or Haitians that I imagine are considered as African Americans). I wonder from the African American category which country is the main source of ancestry, Nigeria?, Congo? Senegal? It is something that is never tracked like it is on other ethnicities.
"Jews" isn't a country either. They could be from anywhere
African American share the same violence behaviour
It's because they forget their origin, language, culture
@@ahfei6847yeah, but their ancestral origin is the rather small area of Israel
Isn' it obvious? The african americans on this video are salves first then descendent of slaves and nobody kept track of their origins. Their origins where probably already lost when still waitting to be bought in costal Africans slave markets and the European who bought them sure didn't care. The more recent African immigrants are probably divided by countries but none of them would make it in the top 17 in numbers, so none of them would appear in this video anyway.
That is completely wrong. The US Census is wrong and because it's based on self-identifying. Many Americans change their minds about their identity every decade. Mostly Americans lies also about their Ancestry because they like to be different than being English, Scottish, Irish or Welsh. I meet Americans which claimed to be Japanese or Korean but have English or Irish surname.
For Example: English Ancestry: In the 1980 Census, over 49 million 49.698.035 Americans claimed English ancestry. At 26.34%, this was the largest group amongst the 188 million people who reported at least one ancestry. In the 2019 Census only 23.593.434 Americans claimed English ancestry 7.7% of the US population.
Irish Ancestry: In the 1980 Census, over 40 Millionen people claimed Irish ancestry and today only claimed to be Irish 31,517,030 9.7% of the US population.
Scottish Americans: In the 1980 Census 10.048.816 million people 4.44% claimed Scottish ancestry and today only 5.298.861 1.6% of the US population.
Scotch-Irish Ancestry: Self-identified "Scotch-Irish" 2004 27 million people 9.2% of the U.S population and today 3.011.165 million people 0.9% of the U.S population.
Welsh Americans: Today 1.956.225 people claimed to be Welsh. That´s only 0.6% of the U.S population but 3.8% of American appear to bear a Welsh surname.
Americans which claimed to have German ancestry is 44 Million People 13% of the US population. Majority of them are just claimed to be partly German not fully. Which is mostly made up because it's self reported ancestry. 15 Million from 44 Million has self reported german ancestry alone. Thats also the only believable and realistic number for Germans in the United States. But 44 Million is made up like Christmas Pickles tradition what Americans believe is a German tradition which don't even exists in Germany.
If Germans would make such a high number. As in the Census, there would be cultural influence. Such as Migrants' food consumption or Holidays. Americans celebrate Irish holidays such as Halloween and St. Patrick's Day. There is no German public holiday in the U.S which should have a higher impact with such numbers. Then why do Americans live in American colony houses which came from English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh settlers to this day and not in the German houses called ,,Fachwerkhaus" ?
Town Names in the Unites States are very rare but aren't even German historical.
Example Germantown: Although the arrival by ship of the later founders of Germantown in Philadelphia on October 6, 1683, was later to provide the date for German-American Day, a holiday in the United States, historical research has shown that nearly all of the first thirteen Quaker and Mennonite families were in fact Dutch rather than Germans.
Another Example: Schaumburg before known as Sarahs Grove: The original 1842 township survey names the grove (immediately west of the center of the township, in sections 21 and 22) as Sarah's Grove. Three families lived near a grove of woods on the northwest end of the township, and each family had a woman named Sarah 'Sarah McChesney, Sarah Frisbe, and Sarah Smith'. At a township meeting in 1850, citizens debated new names for the town. A wealthy landowner named Friedrich Heinrich Nerge, at one point during the meeting, slammed his fist on the table and yelled in Low German, "Schaumburg schall et heiten!" The English translation: "It will be called Schaumburg!". At that point, the township became officially called Schaumburg.
Germans do not adapt to the respective culture. They have always been considered stubborn. See Brazil or Argentina or today in Mallorca, Spain. The German influence is much larger in these countries than in the US despite the lower numbers. They celebrate their holidays there and also have their bread culture.
American is not a nationality, Mr. Yoshida. American is and will always be a historical and continental identity like European, Asian and African that refers to all people from sll countries of AMERICA, an entire continent since 1507, composed of 35 countries, officially discovered and named in the South by the Catholics and not by a bunch of Protestants Pilgrims who arrived here centuries later behind us when everything had already been discovered and named and didn't spend a cent n the enterprise of the discovery of America. America and American refer to the discovery, conquest and colonisation of the American continent by the Catholics. You should learn the America's history properly and don't trust everything your winners tell you.
It's also wrong because they never count all the illegals properly, it's more like 40 million Mexicans and 60 million illegal ones, so it's more like 100,000,000 just go to any medical clinic on a Sunday or social security office
@@siriemapantanal6894 From the wikipedia page about ehtnicity in USA: "However, demographers regard the reported number of English Americans as a statistical error, as the index of inconsistency is high and *many, if not most, Americans from English stock have a tendency to identify simply as Americans or, if of mixed European ancestry, with a different European ethnic group.["*
This is consistent with what the OP said. It seems Americans tend to "change their mind" about their nationality. Wouldn't be surprising.
For a long time and maybe still seemed like everyone claimed to be one quarter native American 😅
The Germans adapt much more than you Japanese, who think are superior to everyone
Very good
Great video as always 👍Cheers.
The US government in the 1920s went to a lot of trouble to identify the ethnicity of white americans,according to them there was 39.2 million from the UK and another 10.6 million from the Irish Republic and another 4 million Canadians ,i would think about 2.5 million who where of British or Irish descent .At the same time they estimated there where 15.5 million Germans ,add Swiss Germans ,Austrians and Eastern European Germans for a total of about 18 million .Since then the white population has doubled
The downfall of the US is coherent with the rise of non european ethnical groups
A century later it's still trouble 😂
Sociologists doubt American nation, looks like just a some people, living in same territory more or less called united as over countries.
Regarding more then 70% would like to live USA forever with losing sitezenship (most prefered country proclaimed Canada), this point of view sounds resonable
Esa gente es de origen Bárbara y Celta. Los bárbaros anglos, pictus,...y demás. No tenían sentido de pertenencia, entonces nunca se preocupo más que por su día a día. Osea no esperes algo más de ellos. Del pueblo Celta tuvieron orden tras toparse con los romanos, osea tienen sentido de pertenencia, por lo cual existe la preocupación por el devenir por eso los irlandés aumentaron su población como se esperaba.
Italians are white like the others : Irish, French, English, German...
@@lindamuzza5450 Of course they are,but the point i was making is that for the main european ancestries these figures above are wrong !The German figure according to the US government is too high and the figure for the British Isles is too low .There where 3.462 million Italians
@Gozhda Hi! Great video! But
wait, I thought the 'American' 🇺🇸 meant _'Native Americans',_ the original peoples.
But they have a separate bar?? What do you mean by _American_ here, that 6th largest one, below 🏴-by 2023??
Self identified as american
@@gozhdaa 🤔
On this graph is the group titled "American" essentially a default category?
...meaning that they either don't know what their heritage is or that it's too compounded to claim any particular clear line of ethnicity?
Genetic studies indicate that most of the ancestry of the so-called Caucasians came from British and Irish, on the other hand they have a high admixture with Germanics and Italians, in addition to an average of 2% admixture with African Americans. Most of the ancestry of African Americans came from West Africa, highlighting ethnicities of Bantu and Yoruba origin, with a mixture of 20% white or Caucasian. Hispanics and Latinos are those who present the highest levels of native ancestry in America with 40%, and with a high degree of Mediterranean miscegenation of 60%, highlighting the Iberian Peninsula and to a lesser extent Italians, Arabs and North Africans, also the component from Sub-Saharan Africa reaches up to 9%.
Fun fact, Australia is the only country in the world where more Americans choose to live rather than the amount of people from Australia that choose to live in America.
What about Israel? 300,000 U.S. citizens live there, while 110,00-150,000 born Israelis live permanently in the U.S.
@@Mer1912 Australia and Canada are obviously better countries to live
@@TiestoCalvinHarrisgood luck to wake up with a grand spider in your bed
@@AlexanderDenaria I meant currency, education, restaurants and music wise
My dad worked for a company years ago which had a branch office in Australia. The company really didn't like sending employees "down under" to work because once there the employees didn't and often wouldn't come back.
Something important to bear in mind with this video, whenever you see a large increase in a particular ethnicity, it's usually because of some kinds of strife causing them to migrate. So you get a massive wave of Irish in the 1840s because of the Irish famine. German's in the latter 19th century because of German wars of unification. Jews in around 1900 because of pogroms and anti semitism in Eastern Europe. You don't get similar migration from England or France because they were developed and affluent. The pattern continues today with migration from Mexico, many fleeing Mexico due gang violence and other problems there.
Exactly, no need to migrate if I'm doing ok in my homeland.
as of today, Mexico is not a violent country and certainly not poor those feeing usually from other central americans nations like Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Cubans and Venezuelans..
the reason why there are so many mexicans in US is because historically California, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas used to be part of MEXICO until USA stole it during american-mexican civil war.
Bueno, en cuanto a México, porque Estados Unidos robó poco más de la mitad del territorio mexicano (aunque la escuela nos enseña que fue un tratado para liquidar una deuda) y la frontera cruzó el terreno, dejando a muchos mexicanos del lado estadounidense, y aún así se quejan de los mexicanos cuando los mexicanos van a sus tierras como Texas, Los Angeles, Nuevo México, Chicago... etc...
@@arthurmata6068yes, Mexico once had a portion of the current US. Many countries around the world were once controlled by other countries/empires. Does that mean the land didn't belong to them? Wars happen and land changes who controls it. There is no problem with people from any country coming to the USA. As long as it's done the right/legal way.
The germans migrated because life was miserable in Germany and Germany couldn't sustain the massive population growth of the industrial revolution. Europe's population wiuld be a lot higher if it had the time to feed those populations.
I've traced most of my ancestors back to the generations that crossed the Atlantic. They include English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, German, and French. So which bar am I in? Great chart, BTW.
If you self identify as american then you are american. Thank you that you like it
Thanks
I am concerned of how many people in the comments missread the statistic.
Greetings from Germany
So its probably more ethnic Norwegians in usa than in Norway
Most ethnic Norwegians in USA aren’t fully norwegian. I think only father's ethnicity Counts
Its around 5.4 million people in Norway and 4.5 million in usa and Canada. So its close…
@aleksanderkolstrm5450 over a million are of immigrant background so really it's about 4 million in Norway.
Quite interesting, but cant really make much of it, unless the data sources and model development are explained, and made available, in description. Do such detailed numbers across the full time span reported even exist? Thus, i imagine there is some estimating here, and heavily so in the early years. if so, how were numbers generated, and what justifies/validates the estimations?
No, this is all data from the US census
@@zach2382 Jesus Christ man, how far down into the comments did you go? lmao.
@@Lili_Chen2005 how far are you going down?
@@zach2382 Too far. You are braver than I.
Got 1 question and 1 problem with this graph chart. (Question) what is considered American by ethnic? (Problem) that should be the only line on here
Because of the US census, ask people what ethnicity they are some people will just write down American why is that such a hard concept to understand?
I should probably call myself american. I have english, irish, and german ancestry exclusively.
So did James hoban , august Schoenborn and Levi Strauss
Europe.
I think most white Americans are a mixture of many European countries,Or do many people only identify with their father's ethnicity?
Get DNA test to know more about yourself
@@tt-hq5nm Genetic testing is not accurate.
Bro you're actually doing a great work here, can you pls explain how you do this
could the author of this video explain to me on which data was the video created? I really doubt there was a census each year..
Yes, it is
Seeing Native American population increasing in the 1930s after continually dropping previously made me happy
Up here in Pennsylvania majority of people are a mix of German, Italian, and Irish. I’m all three.
Black people Rioting here in Wisconsin
Italiano east coast
Many Germans came to Pennsylvania from the Palatinate after the widespread destruction that took place in the 17th century.
@@kelvinkind7496here in Chicago our population is 33% white, 29.8% non-white Hispanic, 29.1% black/African and about 6% Asian. We are a diverse city 😁 with no majority racial or ethnic group.
Cook county is 40% white, 26% black/African American, 15% non-white Hispanic and about 10% Asian and 9% is other.
@@beasley1232and who commits the crime in Illinois ?
As someone living in Europe, it always seem strange when Americans call themselves, for example, Irish, but when you ask them who in their family came from Ireland, they don't know. Given we all have 4 grandparents, thats 8 great grand parent and 16 great great grand parents, in a country as diverse as the USA, I am always suprised so many people seem to know so precisely their background. X
Waves of immigration would often come all at once and settle in a particular area where other people of the same heritage already live. For example, my great-great grandparents generation came from Ireland to Boston, along with millions of other Irish people. All the people in the neighborhood they lived in would have been Irish immigrants, and so the people they met and married were also most likely to be Irish immigrants. For example, traditionally South Boston was an Irish neighborhood, while The North End was Italian. Its still like this to some extent, South Boston has a big St. Patrick's day parade and lots of Irish bars and pubs, while The North End has excellent Italian restaurants, pizzerias and cafes on every corner. But this is slowly changing since immigration is not coming from Europe is large numbers anymore, but the third world.
That accounts for the people who just say they are American and leave it at that. If someone were to ask me that is what I’d tell them since, even with doing a DNA heritage test, there is no pinpointing a specific place of origin. I even have a percentage of unidentifiable DNA. 😂
so most europeons dont know who their grandparents are.
@@episdosas9949My grandfather's grandmother came from Norway. That's my great great grandmother. That technically makes me 1/16th Norwegian. To my mind, I can't really claim to be Norwegian, having never been there and having no other Norwegian relatives that I know of. X
@@oz25 thats your history and your mind. its not the same for everyone. murica has been a very segregated place. my parents born in murica, were both grand children of mexicans. all great grandparents from one country. just like it can be for other people. and might not know all their names. immigrating from other places, people even changed their last names or lost information.
I think theres a lot of people just claiming german if they have one grandparent or great grandparent that was.
What is the "American" group? How is that different from the "Native American" group? On what do you base these numbers?
Because American is the group of people who been in this country for so long that they just want to label themselves as American Their actual ethnicity is not known. Also, the US census.
Not going to lie, I expected more Italians.
I am from NY, 30% of my friends have Italian ancestry
Only because they talk so loud !!! LOL
Down here in the south you hardly see any of them
Most part in brazil,argentina,uruguay or chile
Resume=south america
@@Twilight_Light_Lord Chile???? lol
Mexico went from making the list in 1933 to 3rd in 90 years, insane
Perhaps it encompasses all immigrants who enter the US through Mexico.
And they did not count the Mexican civilians that were in the occupied states, although the US government later killed them and gave those lands to Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
Its good. Mexicans need to Take their lands back.
More crazy is that Germany is #1. I don't know any German-Americans this century.
@@RurbanWalker they assimilated quickly after WW1. They still left behind their cultural impact though
What sources is this video based upon and what is the methodology used in processing the numbers?
The US census
I am sure someone has asked this, but what is the data source? As a history teacher, this makes sense, but where do the numbers come from? I have an Italian name, but an English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, etc. I identify as Northwestern Europe rather than any nation state.
The US census
I'm surprised Chinese and Indian aren't a lot more in 2023. It feels like everywhere you look these days you see Chinese or Indian in the US. In Canada Mandarin has practically become the 2nd language (eg on ATMs you have the option of English or Mandarin)
less and less chinese immigrate to us in recent years
Indians are becoming much more common in Canada than Chinese, almost 300.000 new Indians in Canada every year.
@@josesaavedra6106 Indians are growing but still no where close to Chinese - who literally have streets and malls dedicated to them, you walk in there and you're in Shanghai or Beijing lol
Firstly you probably live in a state or city where Indians and Chinese like me are a lot more common . A lot of people you think are Chinese may have been Korean , Vietnamese or Filipino .
That’s because of wokeism and over representation in media politics etc :)
Good video 👍 I'm glad you broke it down into the correct ethnic groups of English 🏴, Scottish 🏴 and Welsh 🏴 rather than just lumping us all together as British 🇬🇧
It's simple, Britain includes Ireland Scotland Wales England and Cornwall! Ireland was British Commonwealth too, you better believe it buddy, get an old copy of the King James Bible, King James also ruled Ireland.
It was the Roman Empire that called it Britain by the way. AKA the British isles
@@blake9358 Ireland is not part of Great Britain. England, Scotland and Wales make up Great Britain. When you add northern Ireland to Great Britain it becomes the United Kingdom and when you add the Republic of Ireland to the United Kingdom it becomes the British isles. Also Cornwall is part of England not a constituent country of the UK and it was the norman french king Stephen of England that first conquered parts of Ireland.
@@blake9358Ireland is not part of Britain 🤦♂️
The British Isles dominant.
"minoritys" out number my Nordic brethren manytimes over, also we arrived via New Amsterdam making us Native Americans, and those of us who are non Christianized, are tribal peoples as well. Interesting we have catogorized as White and majority.
what do american ethnicity be about??? like when the american flag pops up in the chart and on an on, what that refer to?
Cross breed
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Excellent work! I would have added the %/total population for each group. Thank you.
I dispute UA-cam vloggers and their so called statistics, I don't believe that more German than English migrants settled in the US, why was the US a British crown colony like Australia and New Zealand and Canada before the war of independence, that was sparked by the resentment of unrealistic taxes imposed by the British King? And we have Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts. And how can there be more than 3 million Swedish migrants, Sweden has only like 7 million people in it today and half of them were born in Africa
Very interesting 👌
Do they have an emigration points system like Canada or Australia?
In the early 1900's one can link the tremendous rural poverty in Southern Italy and Sicily to the massive italian immigration to the USA.
Nice.
In the 1820’s, those are not only Spanish but Mexican 🇪🇸🇲🇽
I'm Mexican and Brazilian and I want to move to India one day
Inhabitants of the Spanish Empire.
@@carlosvicedoalbors1200 The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire was written in 1821, hence my comment.
@@pomo1697You are always welcome.
Bring Mexican spicy recipes
That explains a lot of things.
For some reason I understand this statement
What's the meaning of American in the list? Native american?
Since the natives are already in their own category on the list, this should be plainly obvious not the answer it’s just people who called themselves American and nothing else
Onde estão os cubanos nesta lista?
Thanks for Your Work 👍... It always helps better Thinking.. Greetings from Germany
Respect to Germans. Tge best ethnic group for any country.
They are smart, peaceful to their own and work hard. That makes them superior.
Those who identify themselves as simply American are primarily of English and Scottish descent. Their ancestry just goes too far back so they stopped identifying with the country of origin where they ancestors came from.
Many in parts of the US don't even know where their ancestors are from. Hence, they just call themselves "Americans".
Source?
Those of use whose ancestors arrived later refer to our ethnicity as European.
In 1982 their were 48 million Americans descended from the English....then they changed the census to say American instead of English.... English are the largest ethnic group in America this video is wrong
@@RS__7 this is a lie. Where do you get your research from? We have DNA tests now to prove where we come from. Stop spreading misinformation. My family is from Schleswig-Holstein. Where are you from?
The largest "ethnic" group of the US is English it's just they are underrepresented in the figures because not many with English ancestry claim it or are aware of it. Many just call themselves American. Look at the most common surnames of the US and most are English or British names 7 out of 10 with the rest being Spanish/Mexican surnames (3 out of 10).
Did you know that many European immigrants (Germans for instance) Anglicised their names (example “Schmidt” to “Smith”) to help fit better into society? I don’t doubt that the English (or perhaps more to the point British) still have the largest gene pool present in the US. It’s all very mixed now though
And where did the most of the English people originally come from? As a little hint, there is a reason, why they are called Anglo-Saxons.
@@daguckste9151 Not Germany if that's what you're implying? The Anglo Saxons invaded but they didn't replace the whole indigenous population. DNA shows they were a small minority. Also after over a 1000 years of assimilation it's fair to call them English. Otherwise we could say everybody is east African because that's where humans originate
@@jameshunter7303 Yes, I knew that. It IS all very mixed though, you're right. People used to want to fit in more so they anglicised their names. Today we have the opposite- people want to stand out more or sound exotic so they will call themselves Irish if they have one Irish grandmother.
@@jameshunter7303 Yeah I think many Finnish people with the name that meant "hill" in Finnish took the English name Hill when they arrived. The immigration officials probably spent about 10 seconds helping them decide.
Show the cleansing too of the natives?
So it was English until 1865 then German and Irish, thanks for this it's very educational.
Did English people just disappear then 😂 What happened was the end of slavery in the US and the US took on the English Industrial Revolution
There is almost more people with Norwegian ancestry living in USA than there is Norwegians living in Norway current population is 5,488,984 Its especially intresting considering Norway has not had wars and unstability apart form WW2 but we where very poor Before the industrial revolution came to us early 1900
Land of the viking, who became a bit docile now 😂
@@mustafabashir8584 indeed few Norwegian sailors left also 😥
Robert Fergusson writes about the Norvegians in his book "Scandinavians- In Search of the Soul of the North". A unique look into their culture, history, and politics.What a great, hard-working people! I am familiar with many of them settling in the prairies of Minnesota and later moving on west to Oregon.
the song is so sick
What is meant by American in the list. Do they have unique ethnic background or geopolitical origin.?
No, it’s simple people just say that they’re American for a whole hosta reason
Hello, wonderful work ! 👍👍👍
Can you do this with eth(n)ic groups of USA, Europe, world, a land etc. ?
Ethic = religion
I bet he can't In Europe it is Strictly prohibited by law to do so. if we are talking about Strict Ethnicity. Some commission has a legal framework to do this survey but cannot put the data public.
@@GenoGENOVAwait, what? In Europe it is prohibited to make a poll on peoples religion?
@@arte0021 of course like in France there is no way to know the amount of Muslim people for instance, we know is around 8 % but those are estimation not propers survey. The use of those data could fall into bad hands... Prohibited, unless you have the legal Framework like the ECRI did.
@@GenoGENOVA why is it prohibited?
So basically it was German vs German in WW2
Yes! Exactly. I stumbled on this realization about a year ago. Blew my mind.
The president at the time was of predominantly Dutch descent with English ancestry as well
Not so sure about that because many generals were still of like British descent, including general Douglas, MacArthur, who had Scottish ancestry???
@@Wyrm-xp5le Russia had a bigger role in defeating
@@ProudAngloIrishScotWelshUlster the British are of Germanic stock and Russia would have done nothing without American supplies
So your telling me we native are more than 8 millions but we are only 2 millions in North America Canada and USA how do you explain your numbers ?
Im always interested how the american accent developed.
I mean at one point when under british rule. Did most people speak with an english accent.
Its the same with australia and canada. Same language but unique accent.
As I understand it, the American accent is closer to the original English one but still quite far removed from it. The classic English accents are rather new-ish.
considering the vietnamese have plenty of footprints in each state (nail salons, pho restaurants, little saigon, etc..); it's crazy to know that we don't even show up in the entire video
That just shows the extend of the Viet influence despite not having the population to match.
@@guyinsfaround 2.3 milion vietnamese in usa but it just 0.7% usa population😂😂
I am not american but good to see that native americans actually gets increased after dislined
Better medicine
This explains a lot…..
The English, Scottish, Irish, Germans, and Italians built America. Back when "diversity" was actually a positive thing.
America was built in the 1600s and 1700s everything after that was just "fleshing it out" and expansion. Also what about the African Americans not know if they count as diversity but didn't they literally build the country e.g. white House, Washington DC, roads, building and culture plus picking cotton and agriculture. And the Navtives probably did not not build the the U.S as a state/civilization in the way that The Britsh and the slave did but in the late 1800s they had a massive impact on how the u.s evolved as well as the culture.
@@chinelooliver3936his brain isnt ready for that, the fact that for alot of the countrys history the majority of the economy was built off of black labor, literally making america one of the richest countries even pre industrialization, not even mentioning the various social/cultural advancements many americans enjoy today came from african americans
Economy was built off black labor. So all those groups can migrate there.
they didn't build sh*t
How about the Africans who compose 15% of the population of this country, the largest population of black people in the American continent.? Don't they count or exist?
❤❤Wow! The Germans were the predominantly ethnic group in the U.S. for a long time!🇺🇸🇺🇸
Yes we are great
Still are
@@kurtdrexler9888- you were not “ Germans” then but Saxons , Bavarians , Wittenbergers etc. You only became Germans in 1870 ish . A bit like the Italians. And you’ve been a pain in the arse ever since 🤷🏻🤔😲🤦🏻♂️🤣😘
Ja aber Deutschland ist viel weiter vorne wenn es um "Soziale" Staaten geht! 🤣🤣 The ancestry didn't help the USA learn the same system unfortunately ☠️
Alemanes, Africanos y Latinos. Nada puede malir sal
Spanish speaking people will increase to almost 60 millions the next couple of years!!!
Who besides a bunch of La Raza racists cares?
And that's why America will be a third world hellhole like mexico
No creo
Ya están en esa cifra, ni hablar de los ilegales incluso superior, en unos años será de 80-100 millones son los que tienen más hijos
Propongo un negocio. Estados Unidos de América, de Alaska a Tierra del Fuego, cambiamos banderas por mayoría en idioma y cultura. País trilingüe y nultirracial con organización gringa.
It's really a shame how the ethnic Germans were discriminated against from 1917 onwards, especially by the English speakers, and they had nothing to do with the Third Reich either. One must not forget that most Americans have German roots.
They should not have migrated to an English civilization then. But they have dropped their germaness and are well integrated into the the culture and principles and language of the society mainly because the week will to drop their culture and integrate something I fear will never happen with the more recent migrants.
What do you mean by "American" in the list?
Is it for the people who don't know about their ancestors or what?
Yep😂 this first euorpean immigaration
I guess these people are mixed raced. For example, they have 1/4 German, 1/4 Italian, 1/4 English, 1/4 French blood, so it's hard for them to identify themselves as any of these races. Instead, it's more appropriate to describe them as American race
Brilliant🇬🇧👊🏻
Proud to be 🇺🇸🇲🇽 😎
Then you aren't proud to be US, because when you come to the US you burn the flag of your origin, and claim nothing but American
My heritage has been American since 1878. That was the date my last relative came from outside the USA.
It’s not a well known fact, its only taught if you take German in the US, but the US congress had a debate in 1800’s on whether or not to make the official language of the US German. There was a short period of time where the top selling newspaper was in German
Not very many people speak German in America anymore, Spanish is now the second most spoken language.
I truly had no idea so many German people immigrated here
Edit- my heart hurt so much watching the Native Americans drop off the list.
You ever been to the midwest? Feels like your in berlin
They came back later on.
@@wussrestbrook1200 Berlin is all Arabs and Turks.
How do you define 'American' ethnicity?
It’s the group of people who say that they are Americans and nothing else
Interesting how French has always been one of the largest groups, yet there are very few places in the country with a distinctive “Little France” cultural enclaves.
The french suffer the same fate as english americans when it comes to self reporting heritage.
@@davehoward22 My family has lived in the South West; New Mexico Colorado for several centuries...I was surprised to learn, after getting my DNA results and always identifying as Mexican American that I have French as the highest percentage...
France
24%
Indigenous Americas-Mexico
22%
Basque
20%
Spain
18%
Indigenous Americas-North
4%
Portugal
3%
Northern Africa
2%
Indigenous Americas-Central
2%
Sweden & Denmark
2%
Mali
1%
Jewish
1%
Wales
1%...I love my Ethnicity!
What does it mean when it just says "American" surely they're all descended from one of the other groups right?
The English or British ( one of three originals groups that built it in the 1600s and 1700s) . The original three are the British colonist, the African American slaves and the Navtive Americans. It was just them for 200+ years.
@@chinelooliver3936 but English was a category too so should'nt they be included in that group?
@@jackslater5886 this is not a countrywide DNA test, which would be impossible to do this is a question on what your ancestry is done by the US government otherwise people will just put down American that simple
Wow I had no idea there was so many Germans over there, though that explains why they make such a big deal of things like Oktoberfest and ofc St Patricks day for the Irish.
imagine combining oktoberfest and st patricks day... Paktoberfest!!!
The Swiss side of my family came here in the 1600s, the Irish in the 1850s and 60s, and the Germans in the 1870s. I'm actually surprised the Swiss were so well represented until the mid 1800s.
The country was very poor until not so long ago, people sold their kids to farmers etc...Norway has a similar story!
@@nomadhabit😂😂😂
Switzerland has been one of the poorest country of Europe for centuries due its harsh mountain climate, scarce soil, no natural worthy ressources (gold, petrol or gas), no sea or ocean, and no colonies abroad. The country started developing mostly after WW II. I have a lot of pictures from my grandparents (mountain farmers) and I was lucky enough to know them as well. They lived a hard autarcic life in the Alps, working the steep land all by hand, just like Zanskari still do today. If Switzerland is rich nowadays, it is mainly due to its intelligent direct democracy, and its hard working trustful people.
Shiiit, you should regret it, compared to Switzerland today, USA is like a poor third world country
@@osen3182 Why are you laughing? Its true. Switzerland was very poor. Unimaginable, but there clever politics, being neutral, gave them the chance to become wealthier.
I didn't get the group "American". Where did it come from?
Just very, very simple people when ask their ethnicity just say American
As a typical Brazilian, I have a diverse ancestral background including Brazilian Native Indians, Portuguese, and Belgian people, to name a few. I guess I would say the same. I am Brazilian. 😃
A lot of White Americans who list their ancestry as "American" are actually of English and Scots-Irish descent. If we counted them with those of English ancestry as one group, they'd actually outnumber the Germans. Just throwing that out there.
Very true.