AMERICAN CULTURE

Every culture has language , religion , and stories . The difference comes when these staples of culture are implemented . Stories are not going to be the same for every culture and everyone believes in something different

America is made up of many different cultures , yet we are all considered American ' The Native American people have been in America before anyone else , and have a culture that is unique to every tribe . For example , language and religion can be different in every tribe . Not one of these cultures has been adopted as the American

way , nor has any other culture . Every immigrant brings something new to the American table . However , there are some things that have been considered dominant American culture

The differences between the Cherokee Indian culture and what is considered dominant American culture are many . In the Cherokee Indian culture , language , storytelling , and religion are different from American culture

The Cherokee language , known as Tsalagi , is an Iroquoian language and is spoken mostly in North Carolina and Oklahoma . Today , 22 ,000 people speak this language . In the fifties , because of government policies children being raised bilingually dropped from 75 to 5 (Native-languages .org , 2007

In 1809 , a Cherokee man known as Sequoyah , also known as George Guess or George Gist , invented a Cherokee syllabary so the Cherokee people would have a written language . The alphabet consisted of 85 characters that represent different sounds of the language . Sequoyah called the syllabary talking leaves (Bial , 1999

In American culture , the language is English...