>come from Germany >Known as Pennsylvania Dutch

Dutch = Deutsch

>>2988957
And yet we call people from Netherlands dutch

>>2988961
Dutch are swamp Germs

>>2988951

the things the krauts do to blend in.

>>2988951
>>2988961

It's all etymological fuckery over the words 'Diets' or 'Duuts' (old Dutch for, well, 'Dutch') and 'Deutsch' (German)

All meant 'people' in various West-Germanic dialects, and apparently somewhere the labels got a little blurred.

>>2988981
Kek

>>2988951
>starts thread on /his/
>doesn't know what Dutch means

>>2988951
Some of the original German settlers who would have been part of the Pennsylvania Dutch were actually settled in Ireland instead of the colonies in North America. They're known as the Irish Palatines and I'm descended from them.
t. Séamus von Fritz (not my real name but not far off)
>tfw part of an extremely obscure ethnic group that almost nobody knows/cares about

>>2989892

before today I had not any idea there existed anything like what you describe

I take it they did not stringently uphold their beliefs

The Amish are cool.

Especially when you get 16 year old amish girl on Rumspringa looking to grab any English meat she can. 0_0

>>2990289
Nothing whatsoever like the Amish in the US, but there are still small Baptist and Methodist communities of Irish Palatines, mostly in and around Rathkeale in county Limerick; an area otherwise mostly known for Irish gypsies, but also where our [muh] heritage centre is

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>>2988981
I know, right?

>>2990609
What are your names like? Can you give me any typical examples?

>>2990633
Mostly Anglicised forms of German names. For example, my paternal grandfather changed his surname to an Irish one to fit in, but my "real" surname is Bovenizer (an anglicised version of Bubenhausen/Buvenhausen), which is a fairly typical Irish Palatine surname.
Another example is Switzer; the Switzers used to be a prominent family who own a large department store in Dublin. We have little in the way of heritage or traditions apart from our religion, but one thing is that we used to make our own Christmas decorations every year, and shit was something the Switzers did to decorate their store every Christmas.
Another tradition is that the man of the family would be buried with his family's bible but it doesn't take a genius to figure out why this died out rather quickly.

>>2990656
>who own
*owned
>shit was
*this was

>>2988984
>All meant 'people' in various West-Germanic dialects
Like that Congo, Kongo, Mongo meme?