Essay About American Culture

There are so many different cultures in the world from Japanese cultures, to Chinese cultures, to even our very own American cultures. I will talk about American culture, even though there are many sub-cultures in the American culture I will try to narrow it down. American cultures for us is the normal things we do; we tend to think that everyone does the same things that we do in our everyday life. For example, from driving on the right side of the road to even eating with forks and knives. Everyone’s culture is so different, and we usually sit and judge others cultures without knowing about them. I will talk about our foods, our religions, as well as the clothing we wear. First of all, the main thing that people …show more content…
We have about 313 religions in the United States believe it or not. The American culture has many different sub-cultures mainly because we are such a diverse country. We have many people from different countries that come to the United States, they start adapting and assimilating to our culture but usually their religions don’t change. For example; Bahaism is a religion in which the spirituality unity of mankind is emphasized. This religion originated in Iran, and was brought to the United States years ago. Many Americans claim themselves as Christian, it is a very common religion in the American culture. If you take a look at the United States, we are separated by states. In these states we have a governor, for example. This governor passes separate bills and is able to ban certain things, JUST IN THAT STATE. We are so separated as a country that we can just have one religion and that’s where we are different as a culture and everyone living in the US can relate to it. Let’s say that in Florida about 75% of the people are Christian and in New York about 20% of the people are Christian. We usually tend to differentiate ourselves between states. In Peru, nearly 90% of the country is Catholic, because they don’t separate themselves as