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Africans have, since the early settlement of America, has had a great influence in the nation’s growth. These contributions to the United States from enslaved Africans have been greatly portrayed in American culture. Varying from cuisine, to song and dance are not only portrayed today but it has a deep-rooted impact throughout the United States. During the middle passage, enslaved Africans were forced to abandon their everyday lives, their families and their homes and forced to adapt to a new lifestyle they knew nothing of. However, upon arrival into the New World, due to their prior knowledge and wisdom from back home, they were able to quickly adapt and custom themselves to this new lifestyle in order to survive with the hope of potentially one day returning back to Africa. Unfortunately, African contributions to the culture of the United States has received little to no recognition and it has been taken credit for by Europeans and Whites since the early establishment of the United States.

The African American Culture and Traditions A Research Study and Facts That Will Take Us Into What Makes This Culture So Unique.

Many of our life lessons were often given by our elders in the form of stories, jokes, and the spirituals which serve often song in the fields, as well as, on Sunday mornings. Yet, as a people, we thought it necessary to hold on these priceless teachings because it has served as the only link to our African ancestry. African American culture is both part of and distinct from American culture. African Americans have contributed literature, agricultural skills, foods, clothing, dance, and language to American culture.

From the 1500s to the 1700s, African blacks, mainly from the area of West Africa (today's Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Dahomey, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Gabon) were shipped as slaves to North America, Brazil, and the West Indies. For them, local and tribal differences, and even varying cultural backgrounds, soon melded into one common concern for the suffering they all endured. Music, songs, and dances as well as remembered traditional food, helped not only to uplift them but also quite unintentionally added immeasurably to the culture around them. In the approximately 300 years that blacks have made their homes in North America, the West Indies, and Brazil, their highly honed art

There is no doubt that African Americans have a rich cultural background and history like the many different ethnic groups who settled in the New World, whose origins lie in another country. For this reason, America was known as the melting pot. However, the backgrounds of each of these cultures were not always understood or, in the case of African Americans, accepted among the New World society and culture. Americans were ignorant to the possibility of differences among groups of people until information and ideas started to emerge, particularly, the African retention theories. This sparked an interest in the field of African culture and retention in African Americans. However, the study of African American culture truly emerged as a result of increased awareness in America, specifically through the publication and findings of scholarly research and cultural events like the Harlem Renaissance where all ethnicities were able to see this rich historical culture of African Americans.

Marcus Garvey, a ‘proponent of Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements” (), once stated that “a people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” (Good Reads Quotes) He was in fact very much so right. Most people in this world care about where they come from, who they descended from and where the backbone of their identity lies. Have you ever wondered why almost most orphans tend to look for their family lines or go out in search of where they belong? It is with this very essence my quest to look for answers and investigate about two very distinct yet similar groups. The groups I examine throughout this paper are Africans and African-Americans. What I seek to find out is why two very ‘distinct’ yet similar groups of people fail to see eye to eye, judging from the fact that Africans and African-Americans look alike, originated from Africa and their histories and culture somehow intertwine with each other. The main question here really is: what are the factors that hinder the relationship between Africans and African-American people.

the United States against their free will. Blacks from the Caribbean and other areas of the world

Culture often means an appreciation of the finer things in life; however, culture brings of a society together. African American are people who come from America from Africa for example Charlize Theron speaking on my behalf I have never been to Africa so I would consider myself as an black American women. So if we are not originally from Africa why do we keep coming up with all these different scenarios we are colored, negroes or African American why can’t we just be addressed as black American. Many philosophers and archeologist believe that we are related to the chimpanzee and monkey family, because of our facial expression but truth is it was not just because of our facial expression I believe this knowledge from man is use to manipulate

African Americans were brought to the United States in the 1700s and have adapted tremendously since then. After their emancipation from slavery, African-American traditions continued to flourish, such as linguistic style, radical innovations in music, art, and literature, religion, and cultural cuisine. The greatest influence of African cultural practices on European culture is found below the Mason-Dixon line within the American South.

In today 's world most music we hear today is profanity such as rap or pop or basically any music in the united states. But there is one culture that hasn 't changed that much but has stayed to their roots and is still popular today. That is African American music. Because of the rise of modern day music in America such as rap and pop I want to show how African music has impacted the world today and stayed in their roots.

From “The Huluppu-Tree” to “The Descent of Inanna,” Inanna goes “full circle” because she changes her behavior and overall strength. The story can be seen as a mental, physical, and emotional experience for a child who is growing up. It shows how a child can turn into a whole different human being as they grow up. They change their morals, ideals, and their needs for other people. However, a little part of the child is still in them the whole time. All of these characterizing of growing up or evident and seen in Inanna by comparing her in “The Huluppu-Tree” to the way Inanna acts in “The Descent of Inanna.”

The lifestyle of African Americans reflects the influence of cultural traditions that originated in Africa but at the same time reflects the uniqueness of the African-American in the United States ("Black American").

One of the tragedies of human history that Europeans brought people from West African to the New World against their will over 350 years ago. Because they were brought over, American popular music and culture are a distinctive hybrid of African and European cultures. The United State was not happy about the institution of slavery, but the cultural product were unique to them. It is thrilling to study the history of black culture from African to America. This study will explain why the Euro-African culture moves to America.

The concept of the African Diaspora goes back several millennia, at the time when people in Antiquity either traveled to other sides of the world because they wanted to expand their influence or were simply forced to leave their homes in order to be slaves. In order to understand more regarding the African Diaspora in the Americas, one needs to focus on earlier periods "before the rise of American slavery and the transatlantic slave trade" (Gomez 7). Although individuals in the U.S. mainly focus on trying to comprehend African culture through focusing on people who were brought on the American continent during the slave trade, the center of attention should actually be represented by African tradition that was devised over several centuries and before African people interacted with white individuals.

With such parallel beginnings and changes with ownership of lands and humans and the language adaptations the afro-Bahamian and afro- American still held on to many of our African roots. With the abolishment of