In Pennsylvania this is a big day for the dutch, german culture does anyone know how it got started and what it means?
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Fashnaught is a variation of the German "Faschnacht" or "Fastnacht" (literally, "fast night;" conceptually, "night before fasting").  For Catholics and some other Christian denominations its a celebration that precedes Lent, which is, of course, traditionally the period of fasting and moderation that precedes Easter.  Historically, those who observe Lent have had celebrations to be able to enjoy some of the things they liked one last time before giving them up for 40 days.  Shrove Tuesday, Fasching, Faschnachts Day, Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, and Carnival are some examples of essentially the same celebration.  The German variant of this celebration has been traced back to at least the 13th century.  I've provided you with two links that briefly refer to the Pennsylvania Dutch (German) tradition.
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That is a question I could ask myself.I am no European, It is just that nobody really seems to know-and I'm in Florida!My car broke down in a touristy area in Orlando,so I stayed the night.A lot of people had on these huge,thick overcoats-they themselves were huge.Not fat, just gigantic.They would give you a serious look and stare into your eyes,like "You vill giff me your identity papers plees."More than a few times I have seen and actually talked to English people and it was alway a joy.Just to hear the nearly same language spoken differently is unceasingly interesting.Plus a lot of Britishers are moving to my area and I'm glad.At least they are nearly civilized.I actually prefer them to the crude,violent,refuse-to-be-educated barbarians I grew up with.Nobody ever talks about Europe that I know of,it doesn't seem at all important.Oh,sure some rich wife of a local politician went to Prague on vacation.That's all we ever heard about for three months afterword.She didn't say pray-eg,she said prog,like frog....oops and about the French......... The dimwits in America[north america the place with all the Mexicans]believe everything the t.v. tells them.It is frightening.I have a little better grasp of history,having a intense interest in it.The French are a very romantic and heroic people, who sacrificed everything including their own lives in the war and helped Americans.They are notorious for being rude and deodorant free.The last thing I heard about Spain was they were the most polite.I had a boss that went there evey year,it was his favorite thing to do.My personal opinion has not much experience,never been there,and nobody knows a thing about that place.A former "colonist".
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I know nothing about the culture, but encountered these articles which seem to be comprehensive.  Thought I'd share them with you:
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I'm in Spanish 4 and I can tell you that I love the language even more than English. French is great (but I like Spanish better) and German (in my opinion) doesn't sound very pretty. So, I'd pick Spanish.\n\nSpanish speakers celebrate cinco de Mayo (May 5th), which is their independence day. They also celebrate el Dia de los Muertos (The day of the dead). It's almost like American Halloween, but it's even bigger and better. It's a day to honor the dead. As far as the food, Spanish countries have a lot of spicy things. I'm sure you know they have tacos, nachos, burritos, and things like that.\n\nInstead, they celebrate Oktorberfest in Germany. In France, you could do something on the Eiffel Tower.\n\nGood luck!
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Do you know how difficult that would be to avoid?  How many pure Dutch people are in the US to begin with?\n\nBut seriously, it is all a matter of taste.
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I believe Kutztown State University\n(Kutztown, Pensylvania) may have what you're looking for.\nIt's a fine college set in the Pennsylvania Dutch country.\nYou can find them here;\nhttp://www.kutztown.edu/\n\nAlso, give this a try;\nThe University Of Wisconsin - Madison\nhttp://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/german/dutch/\n\n\nGood Luck!
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My ancestors arrived from Europe in the 18th century and gradually migrated west.  They went where land was offered free -- first to Iowa and then on to Nebraska, S. Dakota, Colorado, Oregon and California nearly always following the railroads.\nKnowing the routes they took and looking at what was happening at the time makes American history much more interesting. \nMy husband's family arrived in the Holland, Michigan area from The Netherlands in 1854 and many still live there.  We've met relatives still living in The Netherlands, and have learned a lot about Dutch history in the U.S.\nI wish I had known more about my ancestors when I was studying history in school.  Hopefully it will make history class more interesting for my grandchildren.\nThe word "here" makes me very curious on other posts.  I suspect it means "U.S."\nI'm glad to see "an ya's" post -- more people should be aware of the Armenian genocide!
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Here's some things:\nhttp://www.gophila.com/Phila/EventsCalendar/\nhttp://www.phillyvisitor.com/index1.htm\nhttp://www.phillyvisitor.com/sporttxt.php\nhttps://www.paconvention.com/iebms/coe/coe_p1_all.aspx?mode=DATE&cc=CALEVTS&oc=10#JANUARY2007\nhttp://www.whatsonwhen.com/scripts/query.asp?month=1&overview=0&loc_id=134194&categories=5926\nhttp://philadelphia.citysearch.com/?\nhttp://upcoming.org/metro/us/pa/phl/\n\nGreat city -- enjoy!
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My bf is Japanese (and born there, too). I'm Dutch & Irish, born in PA. We've been together 2 months
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Germany, nameDeutschland, Germany, L'Allemagne, Alemania, La Germania, Saksa and the sources of all these names!\nThere was a post on rec.travel.europe today that got me thinking about the name of the country I'm going to, and decided to do some research. Thanks to the Word Nerds, I even have some sources for it.\n\nAnyway the post this morning, posted by David Horne, on rec.travel.europe said:\n\n\n\n"German deutsch is from Old High German diutisg and Low German theodisc, meaning "of the people," which comes from an Indo-European root, teuta-, meaning "tribe" or "clan." This became tuath "people" in Old Irish and\ntheod "people, nation in Old English." \n\n\nThe Italian tedesco comes from this root, as do the Swedish word tysk and the English word Dutch, which formerly was applied to all Germans, but gradually came to refer only to those Germanic people who inhabit\nwhat is now the Netherlands"\n\n\n\n\nDavid's source is livejournal.com. The full article, on Etymology of the various names for the people of the area of Germany, from all kinds of languages, is at http://www.livejournal.com/community/linguaphiles/344988.html\n\nEtymonline.com, which is the source that both the Word Nerds and leo.org suggest for English Etymology.\n\nThe names are all names of people in that area of central Europe which comprised a bunch of tribes for many years. Indeed the current borders of Germany will be only 15 years old when I am over there in early October. It almost seems like people call the country by the name of the tribe they came in contact with the mosts. \n\n"Germany" comes from Latin and date back to Julius Caeser. Etymonline traces the etymology back to Celtic words Noisy (garim) or neighbor (gair), while Live Journal's linguaphiles identify spear-man, or gari+mann as possible eymologies. Note that some version of the Germania version of the name of the country is used in Italian (La Germania), Hebrew ("germanit"), Hindi (jarman),a dn Indonesian (jerman) according to Live Journal. \n\nThe French/Spanish version of the name of the country (L'Allemagne, Alemania), according to etymonline AND the linguaphiles comes from a tribe in the southwest corner of Germany, Alsace, and Switzerland. It could come from a word meaning all men, "Alamanniz" (precursor to "alle Männer). or come from "Allobroges" which means "foreign men" and may refer to the fact that this tribe moved into an area previously occupied by different people.\n\nDeutsch (and ultimately Deutschland) makes its appearance in 1380 according to etymonline, and comes from the ancestor languge of German, duit-isc, or teodisc (note consonant shift, from the t to the d). It means people, community, country. Diutusklant, the predecessor of Deutschland, was, according to etymonline, in use from the 13th century. \n\nTeutonic feels like it should be related to these, but it refers to a tribe on the coast of Germany, although at some point it probably shared the same root and also means people. (How many countries do you think have called themselves "the people?"\n\nI note that the Livejournal linguaphiles also address the roots of slavic names for Germany, but I'm tired, and I'm not going into that. You can read it yourself. \n\nd Deutschland in the German language
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Send orders to: Daniel W. Bly, 403 18th Street, Grottoes, VA 24441; e-mail: dwbly@aol.com\n\nEighteenth-century Swiss and German pioneer families of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and their European origins and ancestors. Families in this volume: Brambach, Coffelt, Foltz, Hockman, Hoover, Niswanger-Niswander, Stephens, Wakeman, and Zehring.
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I am Ulster-Scot. aka Scotch Irish. I celebrate by honoring my heritage and my family. I remember that the Scotch Irish helped found America. I am trying to take in the more literal meaning of St. Pat's day by remembering the history of Ireland and my own family's history. \nMarch 17th remembers St. Patrick. 3-17 is the day of his death. St. Patrick introduced Christianity to Ireland.
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it is a day which is celebrated by nation \non this day some historic event had happened\nmight be country got independence,might be country'e constistution is made on this day, or anyother thing that changed the fate of the country.
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That is an idiotic response. What if an American is learning Dutch/ German and asks.. Lees die volgende woorde en vertel vir my in jou eie woorde wat ek se? They may need help translating that. This is an educational site? I think it would be interesting to learn another language and if I didnnt know what was said, I would try make contact, get it translated and answer it... Cool hey! Viva International! Heidi
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Lenape and New Netherland: Prehistory:1613-1664\nMain article: History of New York City (prehistory-1664)\nPrehistory in the area began with the geological formation of the peculiar territory of what is today New York City. The area was long inhabited by the Lenape; Lenape in canoes met Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European explorer to enter New York Harbor, in 1524. Giovanni da Verrazzano named this place New Angoulême in the honor of the French king Francis I. European settlement began with the founding of the Dutch fur trading settlement in Lower Manhattan in 1613 later called New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam) in the southern tip of Manhattan in 1624. Later in 1626, Peter Minuit established a long tradition of shrewd real estate investing when he purchased Manhattan Island and Staten Island from native people in exchange for trade goods. (Legend, now long disproved, has it that the island was purchased for $24 worth of glass beads.) Minuit's settlement was also a haven for Huguenots seeking religious liberty.\n\nIn 1640, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed governor, and ruled as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. He curtailed the city's religious freedoms and closed all of the city's taverns. The colony was granted self-government in 1652. In 1664, the British conquered the area and renamed it New York. The Dutch regained it in August 1673, renaming the city "New Orange", before ceding New Netherland permanently to the English for what is now Surinam in November 1674.\n\nSee also: New Amsterdam \n\n[edit] British and Revolution: 1665-1783\nMain article: History of New York City (1665-1783)\nThis period began with the establishment of English rule over formerly Dutch New Amsterdam and New Netherland. As the newly renamed City of New York and surrounding areas developed, there was a growing independent feeling among some, but the area was decidedly split in its loyalties. The site of modern Greater New York City was the theatre of the New York Campaign, a series of major battles in the early American Revolutionary War. After early success in that campaign the city became the British political and military center of operations in North America for the remainder of the war. Nathan Hale was hanged in Manhattan after the Battle of Long Island. In addition, the British began to hold the majority of captured American prisoners of war aboard prison ships in Wallabout Bay, across the East River in Brooklyn. More Americans lost their lives from neglect aboard the prison ships than died in every battle of the war, combined. New York was greatly damaged twice by fires of dubious origin during the British occupation that followed the Battle of Brooklyn at the start of the American Revolutionary War. The occupation lasted until November 25, 1783. George Washington returned to the city that same November 25th as the last British forces left the United States. For about a century afterward the day was widely celebrated locally as "Evacuation Day". The Continental Congress met in New York City under the Articles of Confederation.\n\nCity of New York\nPopulation by year [1] \n1790 33,131 \n1800 60,515 \n1810 96,373 \n1820 123,706 \n1830 202,589 \n1840 312,710 \n1850 515,547 \n1860 813,669 \n1870 942,292 \n1880 1,206,299 \n1890 1,515,301 \n1900 3,437,202 \n1910 4,766,883 \n1920 5,620,048 \n1930 6,930,446 \n1940 7,454,995 \n1950 7,891,957 \n1960 7,781,984 \n1970 7,894,862 \n1980 7,071,639 \n1990 7,322,564 \n2000 8,008,278 \nIncluding the "outer\nboroughs" before the\n1898 consolidation \n1790 49,000 \n1800 79,200 \n1830 242,300 \n1850 696,100 \n1880 1,912,000 \n\n[edit] Federal and early American: 1784-1854\nMain article: History of New York City (1784-1854)\nNew York City became the first capital of the newly formed United States on September 13, 1788 under the U.S. Constitutional Convention. On April 30, 1789 the first President of the United States, George Washington, was inaugurated at Federal Ha
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I'm not sure but it may be 'Celebrate The Day'.
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how about teacher's tropical drink day then?\n\nCitizen's Day\n Because no one seems happy when they ask to accept that my nationality is American. Unhyphenated American Day.\nA day where we can stand united and say I owe no country allegiance but this. I am a product of a multicultural nation. not American Indian, not German, Polish, English, Chinese,African,Guatemalan,Japanese,Russian,Arab hyphen American. but a product of all nationalities living together under one set of laws. I am American. Let's have a Citizen's Day.