Americans

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Americanos são os cidadãos e nacionais dos Estados Unidos. A lei federal dos EUA não equipara nacionalidade com raça ou etnia, mas sim com cidadania. Os EUA têm 37 grupos de ascendência com mais de um milhão de indivíduos. Os americanos brancos formam o maior grupo racial e étnico em 61,6% da população dos EUA, com brancos não hispânicos representando 57,8% da população. Os americanos hispânicos e latinos formam o segundo maior grupo e são 18,7% da população americana. Os americanos negros constituem o terceiro maior grupo de ascendência do país e são 12,4% da população total dos EUA. Os americanos asiáticos são o quarto maior grupo do país, compondo 6% da população americana. Os 3,7 milhões de nativos americanos do país representam cerca de 1,1%, e cerca de 574 tribos nativas são reconhecidas pelo governo federal. Pessoas de descendência americana podem ser encontradas internacionalmente. Estima-se que até sete milhões de americanos estejam vivendo no exterior, e constituem a diáspora americana.

Citizenship: United States
Country: United States

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Also known as American people, Usonians, U.S. Americans

Notable quotes

“Without Jefferson, the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.”
— , as quoted in Jeffersonian Principles and Hamiltonian Principles (1932), p. xvii
“God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet. I believe in you. I believe in the power of millions... Reignite the promise of America... It is a time for truth. It is a time for liberty. It is a time to reclaim the Constitution of the United States.”
— Ted Cruz, presidential declaration speech, Ted Cruz declaration speech: Full transcript, as quoted in Independent.co.uk (23 March 2015).
“The United States is the worldwide beacon of free elections and the republican form of government... We've been holding elections in the U.S. for the past 223 years.”
— Mike Hubbard, as quoted in "Hubbard Moves to Block United Nations Poll Watchers from Operating in Alabama" (22 October 2012), by Cliff Sims, Yellow Hammer News, Alabama
“The American public thinks someone is watching over them. Generally they think someone’s in charge and going to make sure bad things don’t happen. Our oversight system in our country is so broken and so untrustworthy”
— Lisa McGiffert, co-founder of the Patient Safety Action Network according to federal inspectors As patients fell ill with COVID inside hospitals, government oversight fell short (DECEMBER 23, 2021)
“Sell a country! why not sell the air, the clouds, and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?”
— Tecumseh, Speech to Governor William Henry Harrison, at Vincennes, Indiana Territory (August 14, 1810); according to John Bartlett (ed.) Familiar Quotations, 15th ed. (1980), p. 419
“Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.”
— Woodrow Wilson, address, Unveiling of the Statue to the Memory of Commodore John Barry, Washington (May 16, 1914).