Talk:German-American Day

message: Is there a typo here? George H.W. Bush was not elected president until 1988.
:Perhaps "Vice" president Bush? Or it was instituted by president Reagan?
::Right. This says that Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1987. I will look for some other sources, to check. Awolf002 22:22, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the HW reference.  The first Google hit for "German-American Day" is to a Geocities page that includes a quote from HW at the beginning, and I think some editor read this and got confused.  Tempshill 23:17, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Typo?

message: So, according to this article Germany-American Day uses the founding date of Germantown, Pennsylvania "the first German settlement in the original thirteen American colonies". Looing at the Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania itself it says "Although the town's name indicates otherwise, Germantown was founded not by Germans, but by Dutch settlers[1], augmented with a much smaller number of people from present-day Germany, in 1681.". Ok, now I'm utterly confused. Looking at the history, it seems User:Rex Germanus contributed the majority of information change from "German settlers" to "Dutch settlers" but as I'm not familiar to the topic I can't comment on the reliability of his sources. In any case, it would probably be useful if someone could double-check the information given. CharonX/talk 02:51, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Simplified answer: 300 years ago there was no big distinction between Dutch and German, like there was no one between Canadians and Americans. Dutch groups often included some Germans from the "hinterland"...  --188.107.221.249 (talk) 20:13, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Germany-American Day uses the founding date of Germantown, Pennsylvania which was actually a Dutch settlement? 

message: "...the President called on Americans to observe the Day with appropriate ceremonies and activities such as mass parades, pogroms, the creation of comically evil secret polices and a rigid system of total conformity." 
This sounds like a Reagan-joke, but is there proof? Regards, Tasmer (talk) 13:17, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Nah, it´s just the common wikipedia-shoah-business - "if it´s sumptin´ gurmun, it must be Nuuuuzi! Muh!" 82.113.106.88 (talk) 13:37, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  proof? 

message: Why are we making a point of noting that Trump proclaimed the date to be German-American Day? By doing so, we imply that between 1987 and 2017, no other president did it. Is that the case? If so, then that should be clearly stated. But if every president has made the proclamation, then there's nothing special about Trump's having done so and it doesn't need to be specifically highlighted. —howcheng  {chat} 20:22, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Obama also made this proclamation, I will remove it as not unique, thanks! Reywas92Talk 21:02, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trump 

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