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Some Dutch-Americans keep their traditional culture by celebrating St. Nicholas day on December 6th and having Christmas be a separate religious celebration on December 25.

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-Jane Fonda
-Theodore Roosevelt

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Dutch haven't faced much direct discrimination because they began coming to the U.S. in the 1600's along with the first waves of immigrants and assimilated quickly.

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The Dutch government started having economic disasters, political turmoil and religious tensions in Holland. So the Dutch government attempted religious persecution which led to a great wave of immigration to the U.S. WWII also had a big effect on immigration and many flood and weather disasters that had destroyed many homes.

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Most Dutch immigrants set up communities and settled near the original colonies in the Midwest region(WI, IA, MI). A lot of immigrants came from rural provinces in the urban core of the Netherlands, so the places they settled were similar to where they were from and felt familiar.

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⁻http://immigrationtounitedstates.org/468-dutch-immigrants.htm
-https://flps.newberry.org/article/5420781_2_0259
-http://www.datesandevents.org/us-immigration-timelines/dutch-immigration-america-timeline.htm
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The largest contribution is their religion that they brought to America. Like the Christian reformed church. They also made diamond cutting and jewelry trading a big thing. The Dutch also had a cigar and tobacco industry that was developed on the east coast.

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In the 1880's about 52,000 people migrated from Netherlands to the U.S.