The origin of Americans?

The earliest inhabitants of America were Indians. More than 40 thousand years ago, the ancestors of Indians arrived in North America through Asia, and Indians were regarded as the primitive people of the United States. Today, about 654.38+50 million Indians live in the United States and Canada. Ten thousand years ago, another group of Asians moved to northern North America and became Eskimos. The first white people to come to America were vikings.

African-Americans were16th century when the United States became a European colony. 16 ~ 19 th century, European colonists transported a large number of black slaves from Africa (mainly West Africa, Congo and Angola) to America, and more than half of them were transported to the United States today.

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The United States is a multi-racial country, with four major races, namely, white, black, colored and Asian, accounting for 75%, 13%, 7% and 5% of the total population respectively. Asians account for about120,000, mainly Indians (over 50%) and China. ? The human development index is 0.902 (extremely high, 20 10, the fourth in the world, second only to Australia and New Zealand).

By 20 18, there will be about 330 million Americans (as of 20 19, 1). Non-Hispanic whites accounted for about 62.1%; Hispanics account for about 17.4%, Africans account for about 13.2%, Asians account for about 5.4%, mixed-race people account for about 2.5%, Indians and Alaskan aborigines account for about10.2%, and Hawaiian aborigines or other Pacific islanders account for about 0.2% (a few people repeat statistics in other ethnic groups). General English.

About 54.6% of the population believes in Christianity, 23.9% in Catholicism, 65,438+0.7% in Judaism, 65,438+0.6% in Orthodox Christianity, 0.7% in Buddhism, 0.6% in Islam, 65,438+0.2% in other religions and 65,438.

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