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 is more than 10.000 breton that left their native land to emigrate in New York.they had apparently integrated into the New Yorker society because of their Celtic heritages comparable to the Irish one.however they still very attached to their Homeland.
Notable people
| Lists of Americans |
|---|
| By US state |
| By ethnicity |
- 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.
- ^ a b Flint Marx, Rebecca (April 5, 2012). "Filling a Hole on the Block, With Cream". New York Times. Retrieved July 4, 2015.