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Multicultralism in America

a)      Steriotypes that americans have had about eachother are many but here are som examples, the Germans were immoral and drank bear on Sundays (no bear drinking on the resting day), Norwegians were simpleminded (the farmers mentallity, nothing else), the Irish were ignorant and alcoholic (made a lot of potatoe vodka), Poles were stupid (farmers country) and Italians were criminals (formed gangs).

b)      The two groups that have focus in multicultralism in America are the Mexican Americans and American Muslims. Mexicans because of how many speaks that spanish, rather then English. A big problem is that there are over 6 million illigale immigrants in the States looking for work and that hispanic gangs contribute a large part to the american crime.

Muslims in america is also under the microscope, said to be assosiated with terrorsim after 9/11. Other americans feel that their being threatened by them, even though there are a small religious group there. Steriotypes about Muslims have also made it happened, people failing to see that the actions from the few are not the actions of the many. All of this have caused the American Muslims come up with the word “Islamophobia” for people who fear Islam.

 c)  There are at least 32 million Americans in the States, not counting other hispanic  people,                which are also a good amount of americans.

                                                                               

d)      Answered in question b.                    

e)      Things that are considered typical american are: music, jazz, soul, rock’n’ roll, all came from a mix of sevral countries traditional music, especially African slave culture.

Food: pizza (came from Italian imigrants), hamburgers (influnces from Hamburg, but american invention), tex-mex, cousines from european and south american countries inflenced many dishes that are considered  american now. 

Picture source: http://sites.psu.edu/downtownabby/2014/03/20/a-sampling-of-sociolinguistics/
Video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnVf-cO2grM