German-American Culture without the World Wars

[spanishspy]

I stumbled upon this really interesting comment in /r/AskanAmerican discussing German influences on American culture had the World Wars not marginalized it to the extent it had done.

Link is here; for ease of access it is quoted below.

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Are there any other diversions we might see in this scenario?

[Zyobot]

This is amateur speculation on my part, but maybe German would be a bigger language in American schools? In fact, I wonder if certain German terms would “trickle” into mainstream English in a way similar to how Spanish has (because of Mexico).

[spanishspy]

Feb 6, 2020 18:25:33 GMT Zyobot said:

This is amateur speculation on my part, but maybe German would be a bigger language in American schools? In fact, I wonder if certain German terms would “trickle” into mainstream English in a way similar to how Spanish has (because of Mexico).

I can definitely see that being the case. I myself learned Spanish due to the immigrant presence around me and I can see similar for German in this world.

[lordroel]

Feb 6, 2020 15:48:29 GMT spanishspy said:

I stumbled upon this really interesting comment in /r/AskanAmerican discussing German influences on American culture had the World Wars not marginalized it to the extent it had done.

Link is here; for ease of access it is quoted below.

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Reminds me of this article i once read: What if… Americans spoke German?

[Zyobot]

Feb 6, 2020 21:27:33 GMT lordroel said:

Feb 6, 2020 15:48:29 GMT spanishspy said:

I stumbled upon this really interesting comment in /r/AskanAmerican discussing German influences on American culture had the World Wars not marginalized it to the extent it had done.

Link is here; for ease of access it is quoted below.

Are there any other diversions we might see in this scenario?

Reminds me of this article i once read: What if… Americans spoke German?

Quite some interesting speculation in there with implications that I hadn’t thought of myself. Though, it does seem to assume that historical events outside of German as the US’s official language would’ve developed in essentially the same way, i.e. World War One’s inception (though possible divergence due to more American reception towards German propaganda due to a lacking language barrier).

Still, how the predominantly Anglophone colonies that formed the United States would’ve chosen German as their official language—which the article seems to hand-wave into being near its beginning—I’m unsure of.