How is Dirk German but His Last Name is Polish?

[moaz]

Been wondering the same thing, actually. His mother and father were both athletes that represented Germany on a national level (his father player handball, and I think his mother played basketball)
Still strange with the last name, though.

Oh my God. I love how little Americans know about history/any other part of the world.

Poland u know shares the longest border with Germany amongst 9 neighbors. Actually till WW2 a great part in Poland had a huge German population (The last German Literature Nobel Winner Grass was born their). In the other side millions of polish people lived in Germany (we are still in the period between late 19th century and WW2) especially in the area called the Ruhr in west Germany, where there was huge mining and metalworking industries. Many of these polish workers stayed there and became German citizens (if u read All Quiet on the Western Front, the most famous novel about WWI, one of the soldiers in the German army had the name Stanislaus Katczinsky).
Then after WW2 many Polish people fled to the west and remained there but their numbers cant be compared to those from the begin fo the century.

[kumquat]

Dirk's real name is Dirk Miller - he changed his name so he could get drafted higher and get away with being 7ft and shooting jumpers.

[brain drain]

There has been immigration from Poland for a longer time than just a few decades. For example in ther Ruhr Area, there are lots of people with Polish / Slavic last names whose ancestors immigrated to Germany in the 19th century to work in the coal mines ("Ruhrpolen", see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhrpolen). Maybe that's how his ancestors came to Germany.


Even though Europe isn't a melting pot like the US, the picture was never as clear as "only Germans live in Germany, only Russians in Russia etc."
There were lots of Germans who lived in in Russia (Wolgadeutsche), Romania (Siebenb

[Kebab Stall]

This is the dumbest thread I have ever seen and considering this is ISH, that takes some serious doing.

Congrats, retard!

[tomtucker]

How are asian people american but have asian last names?

They are not, just look at them. Americans are white and black......the best colors.... .....great at sports too....

[PrimeJohnnyDepp]

The United States is a melting pot, a place that (aside from "native americans") does not have a specific ethnicity/nationality connected to it.

You've been brainwashed and you are kidding yourself, thankfully. I love good & beautiful white people who you will never see in the media.

Just tear it down and wank, tear it down and wank on the daily basis. go.

[Hawker]

America is the only country that matters.

[moaz]

You've been brainwashed and you are kidding yourself, thankfully. I love good & beautiful white people who you will never see in the media.

Just tear it down and wank, tear it down and wank on the daily basis. go.

Good that you also would never see the man in your avatar (model role for the good & beautiful white people), because he got sick of people like you and went to live in France.

[PrimeJohnnyDepp]

I might actually root for Dallas if he was Dirk Werner. That would be cool.

If you equate great German culture and great German people with the Nazis, you are a strudl. They are only into scat porn because of stupid multiculturalism which makes them ashamed of their fabulous genes.

[PrimeJohnnyDepp]

Good that you also would never see the man in your avatar (model role for the good & beautiful white people), because he got sick of people like you and went to live in France.

That's a niche. Another niche for you to stay in your room forever. I'm moderate in everything and only care for beauty. If you think all white American people are White Trash like in all your songs, then you've been brainwashed, it's simple really.

[moaz]

That's a niche. Another niche for you to stay in your room forever. I'm moderate in everything and only care for beauty. If you think all white American people are White Trash like in all your songs, then you've been brainwashed, it's simple really.

my songs?

[JohnnySic]

If you ever studied the history of Europe, you would learn that all the peoples from that area are interrelated.

This.

There has been a ton of mixing between Germans and Poles over the centuries. The name "Nowitzki" may indeed be of Polish origin, but it doesn't make Dirk any less German.

[PrimeJohnnyDepp]

my songs?

Interscope.

[moaz]

Interscope.

actually not.
My last complete "song" was Enrico Caruso's Una Furtiva Lagrima (the 1904 record) and now while writing I'm listening to Jussi Bj

[chocolatethunder]

His grandpa chocked when he named himself. See the Golden state series.

[COLOR="White"]Someone has to bring this up[/COLOR]

I think the word you were looking for is "choked". You my friend, are a moron.