They may have had German descent generations ago, but some dude who grew up in the midwest and has never left his town really has no connection to Germany any more. It's like claiming that any dudebro with a last name that starts with O' ____ is Irish.
If you told a real German or Irish that some Americans that have never set foot in Ireland or Germany or spoken to a real German/Irish in their lives claim to be German/Italian based on the fact that their grand-grand parent was that they'd either laugh at the guy or get mad
yeah that's like calling black people african american ---
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