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Originally posted by NY Madman:
Then again maybe not your ancestors.
Well, you are half right. Half of mine were Germans who came over in the 1830s. So yeah...that half did what you are talking about. The other half...they came over from Ireland/England in the 1600s. There was no country to assimilate into. So no...not that half.

The Poles in Chicago did NOT try and assimilate as fast as possible. They set up their own churches, their own schools...even their own hospitals.
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