The lmmigrant Characteristics of American Culture

The United States is a country of immigrants.The American history parallels its immigration history in which different cultures have continuously been striking and fusing with each other.From the WASP culture in the colonial period,the melting pot theory shaped at the beginning of 20th century to the multiculturalism prevalent since 1960s,American culture has developed from Europe-centered cultural singularism to multiculturalism.This trend evidently demonstrates that American culture has become increasingly open and tolerant.The complexity of the composition of immigrants and their cultural backgrounds determines the heterogeneity and diversity of American culture.The unification of cultural diversity and integration and the coexistence of fusion and confrontation constitute the basic characteristics of American immigrant culture.