U.S. culture is a Western culture, to in fact have been influenced by European cultures.American history today in so many different countries as a result of mass immigration on a racial and ethnically diverse country.The initial impact of the colonial American English and Irish settlers came from. British culture, British colonial ties with the English language, legal system and causing other cultural inheritances, was an early influence. Other important effects of Western Europe, especially Germany, France, and Italy came from other parts.
Basic elements of the invention such as Jeffersonian democracy play a strong role.
Both conservative and liberal elements in American culture, military and scientific competition, political structure, risk taking and free expression, are materialistic and moral elements. Despite some ongoing theoretical principles (eg freedom and democracy, individualism, egalitarianism, and faith), and demographic diversity of American culture because of its geographic range is a form of expression.
This element was developed by the Native Americans and other ethnic subcultures, including the most important Latin American and African American culture of different cultures. Many cultural elements, especially modern popular culture media has been exported worldwide.The United States is a melting pot often thought of as, but recent developments in cultural diversity, pluralism and a melting pot but a salad bowl to the image. Due to limitations of American culture, many in the United States are integrated but unique subcultures social.
American Languages
Although the United States at the federal level is an official language, English 30 states have passed legislation to create the official language and is considered the true national language. According to 2000 U.S. Census, more than 97 percent of Americans speak English very well, and 81% for the only language spoken at home can have.are spoken by.
Spanish Puerto Rico and New Mexico State's official position in the Commonwealth, Puerto Rico and the small Spanish enclaves in the primary language is spoken language. According to 2000 Census, nearly 30 million native Spanish speakers there are in America. Bilingual speakers of your dialogue partner, or both English and Spanish context switch reasonably good but could use codes. Spanglish as some refer to this phenomenon.
Hawaii, the Hawaii state government's position, Chamorro, the native languages of the United States government's position in the native American languages, the country's Indian reservations and Native American cultural events such as pow wows spoken involved in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are commonwealths; Carolinian, whose official position in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Samoan, American Samoa, the Commonwealth's official status. American Sign Language, used mainly by deaf, is also native to the country.
American English is known as the national language. Northeast, South, North Indian, and midwestern: four major regional dialects in the United States.had been provided with.
American Religions
Among developed countries, America's most populated one's own religious (primarily Christian) is.behavior like that found in Latin America was played. Today, national, state, and local governments, often secular institute "separation of church and state" is called with the current.Many English and Irish settlers of the original thirteen colonies, which, without discrimination or persecution by their own religion and wanted to follow established: Pennsylvania Roman Catholics and Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony by the Quakers, my Ireland was established by. Colonies in the first printed Bible in a European language was German immigrant by Christopher Sauer. Nine of the thirteen colonies had official public religions.to political subdivisions.
respecting an establishment of religion, denied the power to legislate, or prohibiting the free exercise. In the following decades, the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, the spirit behind the animation within the member countries of the disestablishment of state religions.What. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, "The priest has been hostile to freedom, he is always in alliance with the dictator.American Food
The United States is a diverse cuisine, continental expansion, a relatively large population (1 / 3 of one billion) and the number of local and immigrant influences. Mainstream American Culinary arts are similar to those in other Western countries. Wheat is the primary cereal grain. Traditional American food like turkey, white-tailed deer venison, potatoes are used as ingredients, sweet potatoes, corn, squash, and maple syrup, indigenous American Indians and early European settlers by the food service. Slow cooked - pork and beef barbecue, crab cakes, potato chips, cotton candy and chocolate chip cookies are distinctively American style.
Types of food served at home are very different and depends on the cultural heritage sector and families.Korean and Thai food to eat. German Cuisine American Cuisine deeply potatoes, noodles, roasts stews, and cake / components of the dish is most popular with the impact of the pie, especially food Midwest's. A hamburger, pot roast, baked ham and Hot Dogs as food derived from American, German food recipes are examples. Different areas of the United States for their food and cooking style. State of Louisiana, for example, the Cajun and Creole cooking is known for. Cajun and Creole Cooking French, Acadian, and Haiti were affected by the cooking, the dishes themselves are original and unique. For example, Crawfish Etouffee, Red Beans and rice, seafood or Chicken Gumbo, Jambalaya, and include Boudin. Italian,
German, Hungarian and Chinese influences, traditional Native American, Caribbean, Mexican and Greek dishes are also diffused in the American repertoire. This unusual "Middle America" one of the "middle class" is not for the family to eat, for example, pizza restaurant, home made pizza, enchiladas con carne, chicken paprikas, beef and one week during stroganof to eat sauerkraut with bratwurst.
Soul food, developed by African slaves, and many other places around the South is more prevalent in African Americans. Such as Louisiana creole, Cajun, Pennsylvania Dutch, and Tex Mex dishes as Syncretic are important regionally. For example, Apple Pie, Fried Chicken, Pizza, hamburgers and Hot dogs on the popular American dishes as diverse immigrant and indigenous innovations derive from the recipes. So-called French fries, Mexican dishes like burritos and tacos as, and pasta dishes freely adapted from Italian sources are used.
U.S. orange juice market by industries and milk (now often less fat) to the ubiquitous breakfast beverages is largely responsible. During the 1980s and 1990s, Americans rose 24% calorie intake, eating fast food shops, which often is associated with health officials call the American "obesity epidemic." Popular soft drink is very sweet; sugared drinks is average Americans account for 9 percent of daily calorie intake.
