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Abstract The main contents of American culture are the pursuit of democracy and freedom, the advocating of pioneering and competition and the stress on practicalities especially on individual value. As we know, unlike most other countries in the world, America is primarily a nation of immigrants. The ancestors of Americans emigrated from many parts of the globe. The formation of American culture has close relation with these immigrants. These immigrants took their own culture to the rich North America. The mixed culture and the life of American form a unique American immigration culture. Early immigration culture laid a solid foundation for the formation and development of the main stream of American culture. 摘　要美国文化的主要内容强调的是追求民主自由，崇尚开拓竞争，讲究理性和实用，尤其强调的是个人的价值。众所周知，美国是一个移民国家，他的祖先来自世界各地。美国文化的形成就与这些移民有着密切的关系。这些来自世界各地的移民带着自己的文化传统来到北美这片肥沃的土地。各种文化的交融和北美的生活的叠加创造了美国独特的移民文化，而早期的移民文化为当今美国主流文化的形成奠定了坚实的基础。 Introduction The main contents of this paper will discuss the formation of early American immigration culture. The population of the United States includes a large variety of ethnic groups coming from many races, nationalities and religions. People around the world refer to the United States as a “melting pot”. In history, people from different countries in the world rushed to America. Immigrants brought with them their native cultural, political, and social patterns and attitudes, varied academic and religious backgrounds, as well as their ethnic arts, sports, holidays, festivals, and foods to the United States of America. They have greatly enriched American life. After these immigrants settled down in the northeast part of America, they found the environment there was very rough. But the wise immigrants continued to move to the west and found much richer land. Finally, they found a land of dream and a land of freedom and a land of democracy and a land of …… The mixed culture and the life in the North America created a unique culture－American immigration culture. What’s the American immigration culture? How is it formed? The detailed Classification and process of the formation of American immigration culture will be listed in this paper. Ⅰ.Background Information of American Immigration Cultures A. A Brief Introduction of Early American Immigration The “first Americans” were the American Indians; no one knows exactly how or when they got to the place which is now called the United States. Some scientists think that they crossed from Asia on the land bridge which connects Siberia and Alaska to the North America Continent. It probably happened about 30,000 or 40,000 years ago. Before the discovery of the New World, American Indians had already inhabited there for thousands of years. They lived on the land by hunting, gathering, fishing and farming. In the late 15th century, Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator, thought he could reach the Far East by sailing west. Supported by the Spanish queen, he led his men to sail across the vast ocean with three ships in 1492.on the morning of Oct.12, 1492, Christopher Columbus stopped ashore on an island in what has since become known as the Americas. The arrival of his ships in the Western Hemisphere was one of the pivotal events in the history. It opened up a new world for Europeans and initiated the spread of Western civilization to a new world. The period of exploration and discovery that began with Columbus in 1492 soon became an international race to plant colonies around the wor