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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thanks for letting me know.  I'll be honest, I've never heard of the group in 
which you were raised.  I will try to find some information on the web. 

 I guess maybe it is like pentecostals being made fun of and called 'holy 
rollers', etc.  Or maybe ins some areas Amish are laughed at.

  I've never understood that kind of prejudice.  There are unusual tenants in 
practically every religion, worldview, etc.  I have a friend that was raised 
in a very old but small swedish religion of which I had never heard (I can't 
remeber the name, it is some small branch of swedish Christianity)

p.s.  I took german one semester in college (I remeber nothing, except that 
there are many similarities to english if you look closely).  Very mean 
professor, everyone called "frau b*tch"  ......bobford


--- On Fri, 10/24/08, SJC <indexer AT localnet.com> wrote:

> From: SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Newsweek -- "A one point race" ?
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 10:01 AM
> bob ford wrote:
> > Well I am confused Susan; I thought you were German? 
> It's none of my business, but I could have sworn that
> you said, once, that German was your first language.  Who
> malighns Germans? Well..........bobford
> >
> >   
> Hey, Bob!  Not all German-speakers are German!  Languages
> show up 
> sometimes in what might be considered unexpected places,
> for instance 
> Portuguese in Brazil.....German in Paraguay....Dutch in
> central 
> Manitoba....Khmer in Minnesota.//.....VietNamese in South
> Carolina...... 
> migration, migration, migration...
> 
> And it's not the language which drew/draws derision,
> it's the 
> misunderstood people/group itself.  I grew up in an Old
> Order German 
> Baptist Brethren, Lediite group in west central Indiana. 
> They spoke, 
> still do, a form of German.  They have been and often still
> are, the 
> butt of many lousy laws, sordid minds, jokes, general
> ridicule, and who 
> knows what else.  I understand to the core discrimination
> and 
> prejudice....   It is still "home" and they are
> still "my people", 
> albeit I've been gone these many years.
> 
> Susan Jane, in Maine
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