What nationality are Americans?

The United States is a multi-ethnic country, the main ethnic groups are Asian Americans, Latinos, European Americans, Indians, African Americans, Indians and so on.

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).

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More than 40 thousand years ago, Indian ancestors arrived in North America through Asia, and then to Central America and South America; When Columbus arrived in what he thought was the New World, about 30 million Indians lived in America. Today, about 654.38+50 million Indians live in the United States and Canada.

The composition of these indigenous people is very different in heredity, language and society. It is estimated that in the15th century, there were at least 400 unrelated and distinctive cultural forms in the north of the Rio Grande, with various body types and language families.

About 10 thousand years ago, another group of Asians moved to northern North America, which became the Eskimos. The first white people to come to America may be vikings. Some people think that they went to the east coast of North America before 1000 years ago.

1607, a colonial group of about 100 people established Jamestown in Schabik Beach, which was the first permanent colony established by Britain in North America. In the next 150 years, many colonists came in and settled in the coastal areas, most of them came from Britain, and some came from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy and other countries.

European immigrants killed Indians on a large scale, plundered their property and occupied Indian land on a large scale.

1620165438+1October, the first pilgrims sailed into Plymouth harbor in New England by may flower. In order to create a civil autonomous society different from Europe, they signed an extremely important political contract-the Mayflower Convention, which laid the foundation of the United States.

1In the middle of the 8th century, 13 British colonies gradually formed, with their own government and parliament under the supreme sovereignty of Britain. Due to the differences in climate and geographical environment, these 13 colonies have different economic forms, political systems and concepts.

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