Wait...what?
NYC, initially “New Amsterdam”, has always been cosmopolitan, and international in flavor.
Poles contributed magnificently to our bid for Independence from GBR.
You might want to cut them a little slack.
That’s just my thought for all communities and nationalities. I love neighborhood ethnic celebrations where anybody who wants to go can celebrate.
James Van Dursen was the founder, and my Grandmother was the direct “money bloodline”; her father spend the fortune on the Oklahoma Indian Reservation in the late 1880s until 1915 or so on the Indians who received blankets, food, medicine. My grandmother was born in a covered wagon in 1913 on the Reservation as her dad ministered to the tribes. I googled the res and found the road down the middle of the res is named after them. Grand mom’s sister was married to Geroge Armstrong Custer and they did that in attonement for the “sins of Custer”. James V.D. was the man who founded New Amsterdam and he was the man who signed the treaty ceeding all Dutch possessions in the new world to England; he remained on in New York as the administer for the Crown of England for three years or so after the transfer of the colony.
I had the chance to serve in Georgetown Guyana for two years, which was Dutch Guyana before it bacame British Guyana.
So yea, cut the folks who came here and lived and built the great cities some slack.