Asian Americans (excluding Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders) are the third largest minority, accounting for 5% in the 2005 census. Most Asian Americans are concentrated in the West Coast and Hawaii. The largest ethnic group of Asian Americans comes from Chinese Americans, including China, Hongkong, China, Macau, China, China, Singapore, Taiwan Province Province of China, China, Malaysia and Southeast Asia, followed by India, the Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea and Japan.
If you can only choose one ethnic group, white Americans account for 73% and the number is 234,370,202. Among them, whites without Hispanic or Latino background accounted for 6 1.5%, whites with Hispanic or Latino background accounted for 197277729, and whites with Hispanic or Latino background accounted for 65438+.
Most Americans (74.67% in 2004) are descendants of European white immigrants. These immigrants settled in the first colonies at that time, and many of them came to the United States in the "Southern Reconstruction Movement" after the Civil War. Due to the high birth rate of non-white immigrants and ethnic minorities, the proportion of white non-Latino Americans is gradually decreasing.
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population distribution
The American population is highly urbanized. In 2008, about 865,438+0% of the population lived in cities and their suburbs (the world urbanization rate was 54% in the same period), which made many land in the United States uninhabited.
California and Texas are the two most populous states. The population center of the United States continues to tilt southwest. The populations of the southwestern states such as Texas, California and Utah are growing rapidly, while the populations of the long-established northeastern states (new york, Massachusetts and Illinois) are stagnant or even declining. New york City is the most populous city in the United States.
language
Although there is no official language in the United States, English is the de facto national language. According to the statistics in 2008, about 365,438+0.48 million (99.6%) people over the age of five only speak English at home. English is the most common communication language, and mastering a certain degree of English is also one of the requirements for immigrants to become naturalized.
Some Americans have called for English to be promoted as an official language, and 28 States have passed local laws to ensure the official status of English; Three states recognize other languages as parallel to English: French in Louisiana, Hawaiian in Hawaii and Spanish in New Mexico.
Besides English, languages spoken by more than 654.38 million people include Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, French, Korean and German.