American Culture

Dilanka Dias
Dilanka DiasSoftware Quality Assurance Engineer en CodeGen International
The culture of the United States is
primarily Western, but is influenced by
African, Native American, Asian,
Polynesian, and Latin American
cultures.
Fashion
Music
Arts & Literature
Language
Sports
Religious beliefs
 Fashion in the United States
is eclectic and predominantly
informal.
ex: - Short skirts
Blue jeans
 cowboy hats and boots and
leather motorcycle
jackets are emblematic of
specifically American
styles.
 Music styles such as jazz, blues, rap, rock
and roll, and numerous folk-songs such
as Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack
Corn)originated within the realms of African
American culture, and were later on adopted
by the mainstream.
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries, American art and literature took
most of its cues from Europe.
Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, T.S.Eliot
are some famous poets and playwrights.
According to the CIA, the following is the
percentage of total population's native
languages in the United States:
English (82.1%)
Spanish (10.7)
Indo-European languages (3.8%)
Asian or Pacific Islander languages (2.7%)
Other languages (0.7%)
 The four major professional sports
leagues in the United States are Major
League Baseball (MLB), the National
Basketball Association (NBA), the National
Football League (NFL) and the National
Hockey League (NHL).
percentage of followers of different
religions in the United States:
• Christian (80.2%)
• Unaffiliated (12.1%)
• None (4%)
• Other/Unspecified (3%)
• Jewish (1.7%)
• Buddhist (0.7%)
• Muslim (0.6%)
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American Culture

  • 1. The culture of the United States is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Native American, Asian, Polynesian, and Latin American cultures.
  • 3.  Fashion in the United States is eclectic and predominantly informal. ex: - Short skirts Blue jeans  cowboy hats and boots and leather motorcycle jackets are emblematic of specifically American styles.
  • 4.  Music styles such as jazz, blues, rap, rock and roll, and numerous folk-songs such as Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn)originated within the realms of African American culture, and were later on adopted by the mainstream.
  • 5. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American art and literature took most of its cues from Europe. Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, T.S.Eliot are some famous poets and playwrights.
  • 6. According to the CIA, the following is the percentage of total population's native languages in the United States: English (82.1%) Spanish (10.7) Indo-European languages (3.8%) Asian or Pacific Islander languages (2.7%) Other languages (0.7%)
  • 7.  The four major professional sports leagues in the United States are Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL) and the National Hockey League (NHL).
  • 8. percentage of followers of different religions in the United States: • Christian (80.2%) • Unaffiliated (12.1%) • None (4%) • Other/Unspecified (3%) • Jewish (1.7%) • Buddhist (0.7%) • Muslim (0.6%)