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You might be mixing up your Germans with your Irish, were absolutely subject to discrimination when they first moved here. This discrimination was fundamental t

You might be mixing up your Germans with your Irish, were absolutely subject to discrimination when they first moved here. This discrimination was fundamental to the development of Irish American enclaves in many cities, including especially NY and Chicago. German immigrants were subject to some, but significantly less discrimination owing to their shared Protestant backgrounds with the majority English Protestant descendants comprising of the American upper class. But more to the point: almost no German Americans were imprisoned during WWII despite many of them providing intelligence to the Nazis. OTOH, nearly every Japanese American on the West Coast was incarcerated in Manzanar and their property and businesses confiscated.

rayiner 4y ago
There were under 150,000 Japanese Americans in the 1940s. There’s 1.4 million Japanese Americans, and despite being one of the oldest Asian American groups, the vast majority of those came here or are descended from people who came here in the latter half of the 20th century. German Americans were treated better than the Japanese, though I think you’re overstating the significance of Protestantism. A large fraction of German Americans are Catholic. More significant is that Germans by then were a large, well established immigrant group. They made up almost 9% of the population in the 1790 census. By 1920 there were 9 million German Americans. Even still, the discrimination they faced was far worse than what say Muslims faced during the war on terror: https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entries/german-americans-during-world-war-i/ https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entries/german-ame....