The culture of the United States of America

 

The culture of the United States of America:

                            The culture of the United States of America is predominantly of Western origin, but it is influenced by a multicultural spirit that includes African, Native American, Asian, Pacific and Latin peoples and their cultures. It also has its own distinctive social and cultural characteristics such as dialect, music, art, social habits, cuisine, and folklore. The United States exhibits ethnic and racial diversity due to large-scale migration throughout its history, as well as African-American slavery and emancipation.

 

Origins, development and distribution

 

                            The European roots of the United States come from the English settlers of colonial America during British rule. The varieties of the English, unlike other peoples of the British Isles, constituted the overwhelming ethnic group in the 17th century (the population of the colonies in 1700 was 250,000) and made up 47.9% of the total population. 3.9 million. They were 60% white at the first census of 1790 (%: 3.5 Welsh, 8.5 Ulster Scots, 4.3 Scots, 4.7 Southern Irish, 7.2 Germans, 2.7 Dutch, 1.7 French and 2 Swedes), American Revolution, Colin Bonwick, 1991, p. 254. The English ethnic group contributed to the main cultural and social worldviews and attitudes that took on an American character. In the total population of each colony, they ranged from 30% in Pennsylvania to 85% in Massachusetts, The Rise of America, John Butler, 2000, pp. 9-11. Large numbers of non-English speaking immigrants from the 1720s to 1775, such as Germans (100,000 or more), Scottish Irish (250,000), enriched and changed the English cultural substrate, Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America, Ed John Mac Farager, 1990 pp. . 200-202. The religious worldview was a kind of version of Protestantism (1.6% of the population were English, German and Irish Catholics).

 

                            Jeffersonian democracy was a fundamental innovation in American culture that still underpins the nation's identity today. Thomas Jefferson's Notes on Virginia were perhaps the first influential American criticism of national culture, and was written in response to the views of some influential Europeans that the native flora, fauna, and people of America had degenerated.

 

                            Betsy Ross was an American upholsterer who was credited with creating the first American flag in 1870 by her relatives.

Major cultural influences were brought by historical immigration, especially from Germany to most of the country, Ireland and Italy in the northeast, and from Japan to Hawaii. Latin American culture is especially pronounced in the ancient regions of Spain, but it was also brought in through immigration, as were the cultures of Latin America (especially on the west coast).

 

                            Indigenous culture remains strong in areas with large intact or displaced populations, including traditional government and social property organization, which is now legally managed by Indian reservations (large reserves are found mainly in the West, especially in Arizona and South Dakota). The fate of aboriginal culture after contact with Europeans is very diverse. For example, the Taino culture in the American territories of the Caribbean is nearly extinct, and like most Native American languages, the Taino language is no longer spoken. In contrast, the Hawaiian language and culture of native Hawaiians survived in Hawaii and mixed with immigrants from the mainland (after the annexation of 1898) and, to some extent, Japanese immigrants. It sometimes influences traditional American culture through notable export items such as surfing and Hawaiian shirts. Most of the native languages   of what is now the homeland of the United States have disappeared, and the economic and traditional cultural dominance of the English language threatens survivors in most places. The most common indigenous languages   are Samoan, Hawaiian, Navajo, Cherokee, Sioux, and a number of Inuit languages. (See The Native Tongues of America for a more complete list, and the Chamorro and Caroline in the Pacific.) [more accurate source needed] Ethnic Samoans are the majority in American Samoa; The Chamorro are still the largest ethnic group in Guam (albeit a minority), and along with the Refluvash are smaller minorities in the Northern Mariana Islands.

Languages spoken at home in the United States, 2017
Language	Percentage of the total population
English only	78.2%
Spanish	13.4%
Chinese	1.1%
Other	7.3%