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A particular boost to the sense of German ethnic identity came with the forty-eighters, a group of 4,000 to 10,000 Germans who arrived in America as refugees from the failed political revolutions and social-reform movements of 1848. On the whole they were liberal, agnostic, and intellectual, traits that threatened or offended many of the more established immigrants. But the influence of the forty-eighters on the cultural and political life of the German-American community was tremendous, and many worked to unite divergent groups of German Americans around issues that concerned Palatines and Berliners, Catholics and Protestants alike.
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German design and lifestyle products are well known in Thailand. Thailand’s elite and the expanding urban middle class are increasingly using German lifestyle products in their homes and private lives – house and garden, kitchen and tableware, fashion, hi-tech consumer products, food and wines.
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By the end of the decade, several factor were encouraging German emigration. Overpopulation and a shortage of cash for trade, combined with the traditional practice of Realteilungsbrecht-the division of the family farm among many descendants-created enormous economic pressures. Many families had coped with shrinking farmlands by taking up handicrafts such as Clockmaking or weaving, but after the end of the Napoleonic Wars Germany was flooded with cheap factory made English goods that brought disaster to German family industries. The appearance of Gottfried Duden's book Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America in 1829... was timely. His account of life on a small farm in Missouri sounded idyllic to those who saw their way of life fast slipping away from them.
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