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kontextmaschine:

notthateither:

funnytwittertweets:

Americans making up the weird-ass fake name \u201cWaldo\u201d instead of using the real normal name \u201cWally\u201d that the rest of the world uses is so strange

It’s German. The early population of America was heavily German \u2013 with no overseas colonies of their own, the German diaspora (starting before German unification, of course) spread through the Americas \u2013 the thing about Nazis expatriating to Argentina postwar was that was the most advanced Germanophone community outside the WWII combatants \u2013 but a serious ethnosuppressionist campaign around entry to WWI has obscured this ever since.

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The US and South America had big expatriate populations from all the Axis countries \u2013 remember Japanese internment? Remember when Peru was led by a guy named “Fujimori”? \u2013 for the same reason they were all doing imperial expansion, which was that they had pulled themselves together as modern countries too late to claim colonies of their own and so they were experiencing huge population outflows as citizens sought opportunity elsewhere

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