Americans
Americans, or American people, are the citizens of the United States of America. The country is home to people of different national origins. As a result, Americans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship. With the exception of the Native American population, nearly all Americans or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries.
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... Although it occurs most notably among African Americans, it also occurs among Latinos, Indian immigrants, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and even among European Americans ...
... This army unit was mostly made up of Japanese Americans from Hawaii and the mainland ... The review examined whether or not Asian Americans who fought in uniform during the war were treated unfairly due to prejudice ... Twenty-two Americans of Asian ancestry who had fought in World War II were awarded the Medal after the review ...
... CD/vinyl Virgin / 2 ... (US) I'm Afraid of Americans (V1) – 531 I'm Afraid of Americans (V2) – 551 I'm Afraid of Americans (V3) – 618 ...
... Polls also showed that most Americans did not think that Saddam was co-operating with inspectors ... Polls also suggested that most Americans would still like to see more evidence against Iraq, and for UN weapons inspections to continue before making an invasion ... For example, an ABC news poll reported than only 10% of Americans favored giving the inspectors less than a few weeks 41% favored giving them a few weeks, 33% a few months, and 13 ...
... Talking to Americans was a regular feature presented by Rick Mercer on the Canadian political satire show This Hour Has 22 Minutes ... It consisted of interviewing Americans on the street and convincing them to agree with ridiculous statements, amongst others, about their northern neighbour ... Talking to Americans was nominated for a Gemini Award, but following the 9/11 attacks Mercer declined the nomination and decided to stop the show ...
Famous quotes containing the word americans:
“If Americans could understand what a painful, searing experience it is when Negro children first begin to realize that the mere color of their skin is to be the source of a lifelong discrimination, it might do more to end our cruelty toward the Negro than all the preaching on justice and equality.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
“The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)