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.
35,000,000 (thirty-five million)
This person said that a culture is often more unknown to its own members than to outsiders.
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.
Northern Europe
Life, houses, food, customs, beliefs, values, motivation, and behavior are all aspects of this.
culture
Barack Obama was introduced in the chapter as an example of this.
an interracial marriage / a bi-racial family
Alexis de Tocqueville visited the U.S. and studied its culture and democratic systems in this year.
1831
These are all of the people living in North America before the European settlers came.
Native Americans
By the end of the 20th century, 90% of all immigrants to the U.S. were coming from these three regions.
Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia
These are the two most important influences on U.S. culture.
1 - its huge size
2 - its ethnic diversity
This noun means a sense of who someone is, his or her character, cultural origins, etc.
identity
This part of the 20th century had the fewest immigrants coming to the U.S.
This person coined the phrase "melting pot" to describe the process of immigrants becoming Americans.
Israel Zangwill
This state has the largest percentage of foreign-born residents in the U.S.
California (27%)
This is a situation in which people with various ethnic, religious, and political backgrounds can peacefully coexist in a society.
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.
majority minority
In this year, Hispanic people accounted for over half of all immigrants to the U.S.
2000
We read about this French guy who was a "neutral observer" of U.S. society.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Americans called "Latina" (female), "Latino" (male), or "Latinx" (non-binary; gender non-specific) come from this region.
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.
NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement)
This adjective means "unlike anything, anyone, or anywhere else."
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.
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.
Americans
This is the country where Obama's and Bridge's ancestors emigrated from to the U.S. in the mid-19th century.
Ireland
The authors of AW point out that although we must be careful not to overgeneralize, we can make these about American beliefs.
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.
establish