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The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.
[The] ethnic composition [of the United States is] the single most important determinant of American foreign policy. — Nathan Glazer [2] "Being a country founded and populated by immigrants, the United States has always contained groups with significant affective and political ties to their national homeland and their ethnic kin throughout the world."
Schaffner named the main polarizing groups in America–the “Big Four” – which account for more than half of the American population. The list consists of white evangelicals, Black people ...
This is a list of the 50 U.S. states, the 5 populated U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia by race/ethnicity. It includes a sortable table of population by race /ethnicity. The table excludes Hispanics from the racial categories, assigning them to their own category.
A dominant minority, also called elite dominance, is a minority group that has overwhelming political, economic, or cultural dominance in a country, despite representing a small fraction of the overall population (a demographic minority).
Splits from: Socialist Party of America: 1917 1910s Labor Party of the United States: Social democracy [107] Merged into: Farmer–Labor Party: 1919 1920 Proletarian Party of America: Communism [108] Splits from: Socialist Party of America: 1920 1971 Workers Party of America: Communist Party USA: Marxism–Leninism: 1921 1929 American Party ...
Map showing areas in red with high concentration of people who self-report as having "American" ancestry in 2000. In the Southern United States as a whole, 11.2% reported "American" ancestry, second only to African American. American was the fourth most common ancestry reported in the Midwest (6.5%) and West (4.1%).
There are stereotypes of various groups of people which live within the United States and contribute to its culture.Worldwide, a disproportionately high number of people know about these stereotypes, due to the transmission of American culture and values via the exportation of American-made films and television shows.