美国移民文化

A look at the history of the United States indicates that this country has often been called "a melting pot", where various immigrant and ethnic groups have learned to work together to build a unique nation. Even those "original" Americans, the Indians, probably walked a land bridge from Asia to North America some thousands of years ago. So, who are the real Americans? The answer is that any and all of them are! And you, no matter where you come from, could also become an American should you want to.. Then you would become another addition to America's wonderfully rich "nation of immigrants".纵观美国历史，就可见这个国家经常被称为"一个熔炉"，在此，各种移民和种族团体学会了共同建设一个独特的民族。

甚至那些"本土的"美国人--印第安人，也可能是几千年以前，从亚洲走过大陆桥来到北美洲的。

所以，谁是真正的美国人？答案是他们中的任何一个人都是！无论你来自何处，如果你想成为美国人，就会成为美国人；你就会变成这个极其富有的"移民之国"的一个新份子。

The United States is currently shifting from being a nation of immigrants of mainly European descent to one of immigrants from other parts of the world, such as Asia and Latin America. The number of recent immigrants has skyrocketed. They desire to escape economic hardship and political oppression in their native countries as well as the desire to seek a better education and a more prosperous life in America, "the land of opportunity". Although there are frequent conflicts between the cultures they have brought with them from the "old country" and those found in America, most immigrants learn to adjust to and love their adopted land.美国现在正由主要是欧洲血统移民的国家变为世界上其他各洲，如亚洲、拉丁美洲移民的国家。

最近移民的数字急剧增长。

他们希望摆脱在本国的经济困难、政治压迫，并在美国这片"充满机遇的土地上"寻找更好的教育和更富裕的生活。

尽管他们从"故国"带来的文化与美国文化之间往往会产生冲突,但是多数移民还是学会了适应并热爱他们所归化的土地。

Americans have also learned much from the customs and ideas of the immigrants and are often influenced by them in subtle and interesting ways. Immigrants bring their native cultural, political, and social patterns and attitudes, varied academic and religious backgrounds, as well as their ethnic arts, sports, holidays, festivals, and foods. They have greatly enriched American life.美国人从移民的风俗和观念中也学到了很多东西，并且在极其细微和有趣的方面受到了它们的影响。

移民们带来了他们本族的文化、政治以及社会模式和态度，不同的学术和宗教背景，以及他们种族的艺术、体育、节日和饮食。

这些极大地丰富了美国人的生活。

For immigrants from all parts of the would, the United States has been a "melting pot" in which the foreigners have sometimes remained culturally and linguistically what they were in their native lands even as they move toward becoming citizens of the United States, a country whose people share a common cultural outlook and set of values. The melting pot does not melt away all recollections of another way of life in another place----nor should it. On the contrary, immigrants should maintain the languages, skills, religions, customs and arts of their own heritage, even while they are working towards entering the mainstream of American culture.对于世界各地的移民而言，美国已经是一个"熔炉"，在这个熔炉中，甚至当外国人快要成为美国（一个其人民有着共同的一套文化观和价值观的国家）公民时，他们从文化和语言上仍然是在他们本国的样子。

这个熔炉没有、也不应该熔掉对另一个地方的另一种生活方式的记忆。

相反，即使移民们努力地要进人美国文化主流之中，他们也应保存自己遗产中的语言、技能、宗教和艺术。

影《幸福终点站》的英文剧情简介:Viktor Navorski, a man from an Eastern European country arrives in New York. However after he left his country war broke out. Suddenly Navorski is a man without a country - or one that the U.S. cannot recognize, thus he is denied entrance to the U.S. However, he also can't be deported so he is told by the Security Manager that he has to remain in the airport until his status can be fixed. And also Navorski doesn't speak English very well, so he cannot talk to or understand anyone. But he somehow adapts and sets up residence in the airport, which makes the man who placed him there unhappy, as it seems he is in line for a promotion but Navroski's presence might complicate that. So he tries to get Navorski to leave but Navorski remains where he is. Navorski makes friends with some of the people who work in the airport and is attracted to a flight attendant he runs into whenever she comes in.The TerminalAirports are filled with an endless stream of people going everywhere. People are always struggling for many reasons; to escape, to get rich, or to go home. The airport is only a relay station as people go from the plane into the airport, and from the airport to a certain city, a short stay. No one waits around if they can help it, if they do, it will only be for a short time. But such a person exists –his name is Victor, and "The Terminal" tells us his story about waiting at the airport, this wait is a few months."The Terminal" is a simple but extraordinary story. Its plot is simple. It talks about Viktor who comes from a poor country in East Europe and goes to the United States to help his father achieve an unfulfilled aspiration. By the time he arrives in Kennedy Airport, a coup has happened in his country, So suddenly Viktor becomes a stateless person, though not an immigrant, and even though New York and the United States are a few meters away on the outside he is not allowed to exit. Then he has to wait in the waiting hall.In the film Frank Dixon asks Viktor” everyone is afraid, why are you not? For example, do you, at this time, have any fear of returning to your own country?” Viktor says, “No, it is my home, I am not afraid of my home.” A nd so Viktor has to live in the airport. Later, when the civil war ends, Viktor renews his country’s nationality. It is not too uncomfortable to live in an airport because the many people around him have warm hearts. And happiness lies in these daily encounters of ordinary interaction that we already know. In life there are many places like this, and often wedon't know what we truly want. But Viktor knows, and in the film Amelia says: I've been waiting my whole life; just don't know what the hell for. Viktor looks at Amelia and says: "I know, we all waiting for something, you, I have been waiting for you." Suddenly, there is a bright flash. Then I believe there is a miracle on earth. 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Fievel Mousekewitz and his family of Russian-Jewish mice escape from their homeland in the late 1800s, boarding a boat headed toward America to evade the Czarist rule of the Russian cats. Fievel, however, is separated from his family upon his arrival in New York City, and he discovers to his horror that there are cats in America too (his father said there weren't). Fievel meets his share of friendly and hostile mice, and he eventually befriends a cat as well. Former Disney animator Don Bluth co-produced and directed this often heartwarming yarn, the first animated feature presented by Steven Spielberg, and it has its charms despite a number of cliché situations.~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide Less关于西区故事. west side story ：Westside story is the award winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliette. The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs- the white Jets led by Riff and the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo. Their hatred escalates to a point where neither can coexist with any form of understanding. But when Riff's best friend (and former Jet) Tony and Bernardo's younger sister Maria meet at a dance, no one can do anything to stop their love. Maria and Tony begin meeting in secret, planning to run away. Then the Skarks and Jets plan a rumble under the highway - whoever wins gains control of the streets. Maria sends Tony to stop it, hoping it can end the violence. It goes terribly wrong, and before the lovers know what's happened, tragedy strikes and doesn't stop until the climatic and heartbreaking ending.。