The United States is a multicultural nation home to a wide variety of ethnic groups, traditions and valores.Além the already small American and native indigenous peoples of Hawaii, nearly all Americans or their antepassadosemigraram the past five centuries. The culture in common by most Americans is the Western culture largely derived from the traditions of European immigrants with influences from many other sources, such as traditions brought by slaves from África.A more recent immigration from Asia and especially Latin America added a cultural mix that has been described both as homogenised as heterogeneous as immigrants and their descendants maintain cultural specificities.​