填空题. The culture of the United States is a Western culture originally influenced by European cultures. It has been developed since long before the 1 United States became a country with its own unique social and cultural characteristics such as dialect, music, arts, social habits, cuisine and folklore. Today, the United States of America is an ethnically and racially diverse country in a result of large-scale immigration from many different 2 countries throughout its history. Its chief early influences came from English and Irish settlers of colonial America. British culture, due to colonial ties to Britain that spread 3 the English language, legal system and other cultural inheritances, had a formal influence. Other important influences came from other parts of 4 western Europe, especially Germany, France and Italy. Original elements also act a strong role, such as the invention of 5 Jeffersonian Democracy. Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia was perhaps the first influenced domestic cultural critique by an American 6 and a reactionary piece to the prevailing European consensus that America's domestic originality was degenerate. Prevalent ideas and ideals which evolved domestic such as national holidays, unique American sports, 7 military tradition and innovations in the arts and entertainment gives a strong 8 sense of national pride among the population as a whole. American culture includes both conservative and liberal elements, military and scientific competitiveness, political structures, risk take and 9 free expression, materialist and moral elements. Despite of certain 10 consistent ideological principles (e.g. individualism, egalitarianism, and faith in freedom and democracy), American culture has a variety of expressions due to its geographical scale and demographic diversity.