Similarities Between Africa And American Culture

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America has been a continent found in 1492 by Christopher Columbus. When the discovery of America occurred three intercultural continents were able to interact with each other. Three distinctive cultures—Native American, European, and African—influenced and shaped the environment in a fascinating part of America.These continents joined together to become stronger and soon be interdependent. Europe, America and Africa are three continent that were able to unite and differ politically, socially and culturally.
To start, these groups were very disntictive politically. The Europeans had all the power once they had exchanged customs and Americans’ power over their land had decreased. Africans were taken from their lands without consultation and brought to an unknown territory were they were vulnerable and had no power at all. Africans became slaves. In Europe, the king/queen had the complete power and important figures ruled as well because of maritime revolution and renaissance, for example, Prince Henry the Navigator.
They were also able to face social similarities. Some similarities are how Americans and Americans had tribes with chiefs and Europeans, in the middle ages, had kings/ lords that ruled the area or country. Two example of tribes with chiefs in the are the Aztecs and the Mayas. The Aztecs had
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Trade can be an example of social similarities since it affected the people and population of each culture. Another similarity is how their population changed greatly, Americans’ and Africans’ decreases and Europeans’ increased. Differences socially are plenty but there are three main ones. First, once the three cultures had interacted, white or europeans, were considered superior then the rest. American Indians were bellow the creoles, europeans born in the Americas, mestizos, mix of american indians and europeans. Africans were the most discriminated, they were completely

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