More than 79% of the United States
population are urban (and more than 50% are estimated to
be suburban, a not strictly defined category that can be
taken as a subset of urban), and the great majority of the
inhabitants are of European descent.
According to the U.S.
census, as of 2000 the largest minority were Hispanics,
who, at 35,305,818 people, accounted for 12.5% of the
population; this figure includes people of Mexican, Puerto
Rican, Cuban, and many other origins (who may be any
race). The African-American population numbered
34,658,190, or 12.3% of the population, although an
additional .6% of the population were of African-American
descent in part. The Asian population totaled 10,242,998
in 2000, or 3.6%, and consisted predominantly of people of
Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, or Japanese
origin; an additional .6% of the population had a
mixed-race background that was partially Asian.
The Native
American population of the United States, which included
natives of Alaska such as Eskimos and Aleuts, was
2,475,956, or .9%, but an additional .6% were of partial
Native American descent. Roughly a third of Native
Americans lived on reservations, trust lands, territories,
or other lands under Native American jurisdiction.
Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders numbered 398,835 in
2000, or .1% of the population; an additional .2% were of
partial Pacific Island descent. Persons who defined
themselves as being of mixed racial background constituted
2.4% of the population in 2000, but the number of people
with a mixed racial background, especially in the
African-American and Hispanic populations, was in fact
much higher.
The social structure of United States is
somewhat stratified, with a significant class of very
wealthy individuals; eleven of the twenty richest people
in the world are Americans. On one widely used measure of
inequality, the Gini coefficient, the United States has
the highest inequality of any wealthy country.
Nevertheless, ideas of Social mobility figure prominently
in the American dream, which holds that someone born into
a poor family can, through hard work, ultimately rise into
the upper classes. However, there is debate over how often
this actually occurs in modern American society, both
compared with earlier eras and with other developed
nations.
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