美国是由多民族组成的国家,素来就有民族“大熔炉”的别称。在近代的美国,其主流文化是以盎格鲁—撒克逊传统文化为核心,加上清教精神因子的资产阶级白人文化。然而,印第安民族,这个创造了美洲最早文化的土著民族,在白人文化的强权下逐渐边缘化,失去了其应有的地位,北美印第安人创造的文化环境从此中断,但文化不以人的意志为转移,它已经深深地渗透于美洲大地的肌理与脉络,印第安久远的历史和文化对美国这个移民国家文化的形成和发展产生了难 The United States is a country made up of many ethnic groups and has always had the nickname “national melting pot.” In modern America, the mainstream culture is based on the Anglo-Saxon traditional culture with the bourgeois white culture of the spiritual factor of Puritanism. However, the Indian nation, the indigenous nation that created the earliest culture in the Americas, has gradually marginalized and lost its due status under the influence of white culture. The cultural environment created by North American Indians ceased from this, but culture did not depend on human will As a transfer, it has deeply infiltrated the texture and context of the land of the Americas. The long history and culture of India have made it difficult for the United States to form and develop its immigrant national culture