Talk:Emigration from Germany

Modeled after
I modelled this page after Ethnic Japanese, because that page very neatly disambiguated the multiple pages fitting that topic. The same topic structure applies here. The Transhumanist 18:41, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Sourced info?
This edit has the summary "dont remove sourced info" but most of what it restored is unsourced and marked with a fact tag. - Jmabel | Talk 22:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

peru 600 mil descendientes de alemanes??? se basan en un blog??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sureño 21 (talk • contribs) 00:58, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Today, the logic of the existence of an independent Austrian nation is no longer questioned.
There is no question about the Austrian nation, but about the German ethnicity of German-speaking Austrians. While by far most Austrians deny being German in what sense soever there is a certain percentage of people in Germany labeling them as ethnic Germans considering their language and history. The concept of ethnicity is mostly not considered or not understood by people denying a German ethnicity of Austrians or Swiss people.--MacX85 (talk) 19:53, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Tyrolese are not Ethnic Germans
I started a discussion about the Tyrolese people in Northern Italy in the Austrians talk page, and the people in that talk page told me that the Tyrolese are not ethnic German, they are ethnic Austrian. The Governor of South Tyrol (Südtirol/Bolzano-Bozen) said that they are part of the Austrian Nation, the leading party of South Tyrol calls Austria the "fatherland", and German Wikipedia list the Tyrolese as part of the Austrian Nation.

So why are Tyrolese listed as Ethnic German when they are Austrian? One guy in the Austrians talk page told me that they should be removed from this article, so what do you all think? Lehoiberri (talk) 21:12, 20 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Fair enough, although it should also be mentioned that Austrians were historically (and still sometimes are) seen as Germans, so in that sense they ARE ethnic Germans. Saimdusan Talk|Contribs 03:19, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, it's wouldn't be a contradiction as Austrians are historically, linguistically and ethnically Germans. Deacon of Pndapetzim ( Talk ) 03:28, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Invited???
'Germans were invited to migrate to Poland and the Hungarian Empire during the late 18th century to set up farms.' Source please. See also 'Volksdeutche' article for historical facts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.34.140.195 (talk) 03:56, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

british germanic heritage
As a british man, with english, scottish, welsh and some irish ancestors, I feel that the British should be listed as a germanic people rather than just the english. I know we are also celtic and with romantic elements etc, but we are largely a germanic people, with a germanic language etc. Thus I feel the germanic elements must be recognised. Afterall, Scotland and Ireland were also invaded by germanic vikings etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pietoranje (talk • contribs) 20:02, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

you may want the Germanic_peoples article, or Germanic-speaking_Europe, not sure what this comment is doing here. --dab (𒁳) 21:33, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Alsatians are not ethnic Germans
Alsatians are not ethnic Germans ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.141.167.99 (talk) 14:44, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Source?? Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 21:08, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Don't you people ever get bored of this? There have only been about 200 submission of random claims of groups or individuals being or not being Germans. Invariably without any quotable reference. This sort of thing should just be rolled back on sight as it isn't in any way helpful towards improving the article. --dab (𒁳) 21:31, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Introduction
The entire first paragraph could just go away and nothing of value would be lost.Kar98 (talk) 14:10, 14 December 2010 (UTC)


 * And by "first paragraph" I mean everything before the table of contents.--Kar98 (talk) 17:41, 14 December 2010 (UTC)