Copy of How Jan Kees Became Yankee
Published on Nov 21, 2015
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DUTCH
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AMERICAN
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Where the twain shall meet!
Martin Van Buren (8th President 1837-1841)
Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Walter Cronkite
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Kim Kardashian
Famous Americans of Dutch descent
Sollors: the invention of ethnicity.
As with all thing American Studies, ethnicity is a construct and invented at that! What makes up Dutch ethnicity? Place of birth? Or is it, as posed by Sollors in Beyond Ethnicity, based on consent?
Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Walter Cronkite
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Kim Kardashian
Famous Americans of Dutch descent
Sollors: the invention of ethnicity.
As with all thing American Studies, ethnicity is a construct and invented at that! What makes up Dutch ethnicity? Place of birth? Or is it, as posed by Sollors in Beyond Ethnicity, based on consent?
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Dutch American
But people still have a different perception about Dutch Americans.
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Annual Tulip Festival in Pella, Iowa: http://www.pella.org/aspx/traveltourism/plan/extra.aspx?cid=0&n1id=10&n2id=...
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Religion and community
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Water management. King Willem-Alexander would be proud!
A map of the Holland Land Company.
