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Scandinavian Immigrants
Scandinavian communities continued to speak, write, and publish materials in their native languages from the late nineteenth century onward. The use of newspaper become a common way for Scandinavian culture and language to maintain the exclusivity of Scandinavian communities and their practices as well as a noticeable distinction from Anglo-American locals. However, the use of their native languages hit a roadblock due to the rise of “nativist” sentiments during the First World War. Americans demanded a more status quo American cultural that the Scandinavian migrants had in the past resisted. Scandinavian immigrants began to cave to societal norms and reduced back the use of the tongues of their homelands. For many Scandinavians the First

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