Breton Americans
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 338[1] | |
| Languages | |
| American English · French · Breton | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholicism Protestantism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Cornish Americans · English Americans · Irish Americans · Manx Americans · Scottish Americans · Scotch-Irish Americans · Welsh Americans · other Celtic Americans |
Breton Americans are Americans of Breton descent from Brittany.
History
A large wave of Breton immigrants arrived in the New York City area during the 1950s and 1960s.[2] Many settled in the East Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens.[2]However according to this article https://www.letelegramme.fr/soir/bretons-d-amerique-gangs-of-new-york-26-02-2018-11867230.php, there are more than 10,000 Bretons that left their native land to emigrate to New York. They had apparently very-well integrated into New York society due to their Celtic heritages being comparable to the Irish one, however, they are still very attached to their homeland. There is also a soccer team in Queens.
Notable people
| Lists of Americans |
|---|
| By U.S. state |
| By ethnicity or nationality |
|
- John James Audubon
- Celine Dion
- René Galand
- Charles Guillou
- Youenn Gwernig
- Paol Keineg
- Jack Kerouac
- Charles Kergaravat, founder of BreizhAmerika
- Jackie Stallone
- Sylvester Stallone
- Tina Weymouth
See also
References
- ↑ "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000" (XLS). U.S. Census Bureau. January 22, 2007. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
- 1 2 Flint Marx, Rebecca (April 5, 2012). "Filling a Hole on the Block, With Cream". New York Times. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
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