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In a world like the one we live in, where everyone from everywhere lives in the same place, we struggle to find out who we are and where we belong. In the United States if we all have one thing in common is that our descendants are from somewhere else.
Identify Yourself serves as a forum to talk about that journey we all go through in efforts to define our roots.
As either Americans or immigrants we form part of a large community of different races and cultures. In this map we can see the social demographics of the US.
Source: Census 2000 analyzed by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN). The US has been the refuge of European cultures since colonization in this country people all over the world have come to pursue the American dream and find opportunity, freedom and prosperity which might have been lacking in their home countries. |
In March 2003, the civilian noninstitutionalized population in the United States included 33.5 million foreign born, representing 11.7% of the U.S. population. 2 Among the foreign born, 53.3% were born in Latin America, 25% in Asia, 13.7% in Europe, and the remaining 8% in other regions of the world.
An Overview of the U.S. Population
(Based on Census 2006 data unless otherwise noted.)
Total Resident Pop.(Apr. 2008 est.): 303,763,031
White: 221,331,507 (73.9% of pop.)
Black: 37,051,483 (12.4% of pop.)
Asian: 13,100,095 (4.4% of pop.)
American Indian and Alaska Native: 2,369,431 (0.8% of pop.)
Hispanic/Latino: 44,252,278 (14.8% of pop.)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 426,194 (0.1% of pop.) |
