Dates / Stats
During the 100-year period between the early 19th century and the early 20th century, the U.S. added this many immigrants to its population.
What is 35,000,000 (thirty-five million)?
This person said that a culture is often more unknown to its own members than to outsiders.
Who is/was Edward T. Hall?
From the 17th century (1600s) to the late 18th century when the U.S. became a country, most people going there were from this region.
What is northern Europe?
Life, houses, food, customs, beliefs, values, motivation, and behavior are all aspects of this.
What is culture?
Barack Obama was introduced as an example of this.
What is an interracial marriage / What is a bi-racial family?
Alexis de Tocqueville visited the U.S. and studied its culture and democratic systems in this year.
What is/was 1831?
These are all of the people living in North America before the European settlers came.
Who are Native Americans?
By the end of the 20th century, 90% of all immigrants to the U.S. were coming from these three regions.
What are Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia?
These are the two most important influences on U.S. culture.
What are the country's huge size and its ethnic diversity?
This noun means a sense of who someone is, his or her character, cultural origins, etc.
What is identity?
This part of the 20th century had the fewest immigrants coming to the U.S.
What is the middle?
This person coined the phrase "melting pot" to describe the process of immigrants becoming Americans.
Who is/was Israel Zangwill?
This state has the largest percentage of foreign-born residents in the U.S.
What is California? (27%)
This is a situation in which people with various ethnic, religious, and political backgrounds can peacefully coexist in a society.
What is cultural pluralism?
This is a situation in which over 50% of a population of a place is made up of those from racial or ethnic groups other than the dominant one.
What is a "majority minority"?
In this year, Hispanic people accounted for over half of all immigrants to the U.S.
What is (the year) 2000?
We read about this French guy who was a "neutral observer" of U.S. society.
Who is/was Alexis de Tocqueville?
Americans called "Latina" (female), "Latino" (male), or "Latinx" (non-binary; gender non-specific) come from this region.
What is Latin America?
This trade agreement among Canada, the U.S., and Mexico was started in 1994 and changed its name to the USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement) in 2020.
What is NAFTA? (the North American Free Trade Agreement)
This adjective means "unlike anything, anyone, or anywhere else."
What is unique?
This is the year when the U.S. census first included the option for people to check more than one box to indicate their exact ethnicities.
What is/was 2010?
Because there is no word in English like "estadounidense" in Spanish, the authors of AW (and millions of other people) refer to "United Statesians" as this.
What is/are 'Americans'?
This is the country where Obama's and Bridge's ancestors emigrated from to the U.S. in the mid-19th century.
What is Ireland?
The authors of AW point out that although we must be careful not to overgeneralize, we can make these about American beliefs.
What are generalizations?
This verb means to start something (a company, city, organization, school, country, etc.) for the first time with the idea that it will continue for many years.
What is establish?