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A Peasants Pride: A Short Celebration of German-Russians |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: Roger L. Welsch |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,396 Words, 14,754 Characters |
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Chances are, I'm a folklorist because I'm a German-Russian. In high school I listened to history lectures about generals, congressmen, presidents, and statesmen, knowing that my people had never in their fifty years tenure in this country produced anything more than three generations of migrant farm laborers and factory workers. I read Faulkner, Hemingway, Cather, and Frost, but found no mention of Koehlers, Weyandts, or Schwindts. My people, it seemed, had no art in the galleries, no music in the concert halls, no gourmet dishes, no ballet, no heroes, no giants.
But I knew better, or at least I hoped I did. The determination and integrity of my grandparents was certainly no less than that of Washington or Eisenhower, their spiritual strength no less than Lincoln's. In my Aunt Anna's...
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...r is, this is true of the heritage of most other cultures in America, too: Their contribution is not so much in the extraordinary as within the far less spectacular but infinitely more pervasive and important ordinary aspects of their way of life. It is up to the descendants of the aristocrats to be embarrassed, not those of us who have had the good fortune to have been born of peasant stock.
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