NO TWO ALIKE
The American people come from a hundred backgrounds. They think and live in a thousand ways. They do millions of jobs. Yet they are one people: Americans
People of every description
The people of any nation me be tall, short, thin, heavy, women, men, young, or old. Americans may be white, black, Latino, Asian, or American Indian. They may be rich or poor, famous or unknown to all but a few. more than 215 millions people belong to the nation called the united states of America. No two of these people are exactly alike. Even identical twins differ from are another. their families and friends can tell then apart by the way they speak, the things they say, and how they say, and how they behave.
Homework1
Find the population statistics of the united states
· White Americans
· Black Americans
· Latino Americans
· Asian Americans
· American Indians
· Americans under the age of 14 years
· American live in rular areas
· Americans between the age of 15 and 24
· Americans 25 years old or older
Solucion
The most powerful country of the world also third more is populated, after China and India. In the United States almost 300 million people reside at the moment, of which approximately a 13% have Hispanic origin, another 12% are black and almost a 4% of Asians. The “minorities” represent already more of the fourth part of the population and far beyond grow to a rate the one of the set.
This ethnic and racial diversity responds to practically constant an migratory flow from end of century XVIII to the Twenties of the last century. From then, the United States single it admits to refugees and qualified professionals - mainly, doctors, although it is almost impossible to determine the number of immigrant’s illegal, originating in its majority of Latin America and special of the Mexico neighbor.
In the present time, one of each ten inhabitants of the United States has been born abroad. That heterogeneity also occurs in the development levels. EE. UU. it presents/displays one of the greater PNB by inhabitant, with more than 37,000 dollars; nevertheless, the American society is very unequal. Approximately, 12% of the population live in the poverty In spite of the exaltación on melting pot, that is to say, of the “multicultural society” most of those people they are of black race and they live in the urban guetos. The social inequalities give rise to conflicts between the different communities.
Estadictis
-White Americans: 72, 0 %
-Black Americans: 12, 0 %
-Latino Americans: 12, 0 %
-Asian Americans: 3, 0 %
-American Indian: 1, 0 %
-Americans under the age of 14 years: 20, 0 %
-American live in rular areas: 10, 0 %
-Americans between the age of 15 and 24: 19, 0 %
-Americans 25 years old or older: 61, 0 %
L a población de estados unidos esta más diversificada que la de Canadá. La población británica irlandesa formaba el numero más numeroso aproximadamente un 29% de los habitantes del país los negros cuyos antepasados provenían de África alcanzaban alrededor del 12% de la población, los alemanes cerca del 23% y los habitantes del origen hispano alrededor del 15% los abitantes de origen asiático, japoneses, chinos, filipinos, coreanos y vietnamitas solo era el 2,9% de la población de los estados unidos en 1970 pero apertir de esa época numero ha ido creciendo debido a la emigración
The rich, the poor, the in-between
There is diversity in these three statements
One person can easily get $15.00 for a new baseball mitt. Another must save for a long time to get the same mitt. Still another has no money to buy a candy bar.
The economic situation of the American people is like these three statements. The people of USA generally have more wealth than people of other nations.
-About 42 million American families have enough money to buy their own homes, most of the things they want.
-More than 26 million Americans cannot afford to buy all the food, clothing and housing they need.
-About 7 million Americans who wanted work failed to find jobs.
Nine Americans, ten options
Americans differing ideas about religion.out of 215 million Americans, about 132 million belong to one church another
Here are some statistics:
Church membership in the U.S., 1976 | |
group | |
protestant | |
Roman catholic | |
Jewish | |
Others: Muslim, Hindu, Confucian | |
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