US ambassador killed over a film

[Lissa]

Just a nit, but German Americans are the most marginalized culture in the US. No other culture is more ashamed of what has happened in their past then those of German descent living in America.

There is a difference between shame and marginalization, no? Shame is internal, something a group does to itself. Marginalization is something other people do to a group. Germans might have the first, but surely not much of the second.

-Jester

In this case, it's both. There is a well known instance of anti-german rhetoric in the US, especially right after WWI. Ty Cobb was infamously caught sliding into second base against a player of German descent screaming "German! German!" with his spikes set to dig into the leg of the player and crowd at the game was cheering Cobb on. Over the last 100 years, German culture has been both suppressed and opressed within the US.