美国人口.pptxVIP

American PopulationAs we all know,there is a variety of pople from all of the world in America. The diversity of the American population is a direct result of the US’s status as an immigrant nation。Native AmericanNative American people in the vast majority is indians（印第安人）. Its ancestor about 40000 years ago through the Bering Strait from Asia to the Americas（白令海峡）. They and the Asian contemporaries have some of the same cultural characteristics, such as fire, dog and some special ritual and medical methods. Eskimos爱斯基摩人About 10000 years ago, there is another group of Asians migrated to the north of America, which is later eskimos. EuropeansDuring the 1500s, French and Spanish explorers visited the New World. But the first Europeans who came to stay were mostly the English. About 75 percent of these first Americans were of British ancestry; the rest were German, Dutch, French, Swiss, and Spanish. Now the most powerful and influential race in the United States is the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants who are the descendents of the early English settlers. They make up about 45 percent of the American population and control most of the national wealth and political power in the nation.The Black The most numerous minority in America is the black people whose forefathers were from Africa. The first blacks arrived in Jamestown in 1619 as slaves. After the Emancipation（解放） in 1863, they were freed formally, but the U. S. government continued to practice discrimination (歧视）against them. ?Today, legal barriers have been lowered, Blacks can vote, get a meal where they want, and stay at hotels… But mass of blacks are still poor and One-third of all black families still live below the poverty line .Asian Americans亚裔美国人Among the Asian immigrants, the Chinese were the first Asians to come to the United States. Beginning in 1847, when young male peasants came to get away from poverty and to work in America in mines, on railroads, and in agricultural fields, the Chinese ran into eco