The culture of North America refers to the arts and other manifestations of human activities and achievements from the continent of

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

. Cultures of North America reflect not only that of the continent's indigenous peoples but those cultures that followed European colonisation as well.

Music

* American music ** African-American music ** American folk music ** American popular music ** Creole music * Canadian music ** Indigenous music of Canada * Costa Rican music * Cuban music ** Cuban folk music * Dominican music (Dominica) * Dominican music (Dominican Republic) * Guatemala music *

Honduran music Music of Honduras is very varied. Punta is the main "ritmo" of Honduras with other music such as Paranda, Bachata, Caribbean salsa, cumbia, reggae, merengue, soca, calypso, dancehall and reggaeton widely heard especially in the North, to Mex ...

* Indigenous music of North America * Jamaican music * Mexican music *

Nicaraguan music The Music of Nicaragua contains a mixture of European, Indigenous, and African influences. Occasionally, it also rarely features Asian and Arab musical influences as well as from other countries of Hispanic and Latino origin. Musical instruments ...

* Salvadoran music

Mythology and folklore

* American folklore **

Hawaiian folklore Folklore in Hawaii in modern times is a mixture of various aspects of Hawaiian mythology and various urban legends that have been passed on regarding various places in the Hawaiian islands. The following is a partial list of some of these legends. ...

** Hawaiian mythology ** Mexican-American folklore * American mythology * Canadian folklore * * Honduran folklore * Indigenous mythologies of the Americas * Mexican folktales

Languages

North-American English (see Anglo-America): *

American English American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the Languages of the United States, most widely spoken lan ...

Canadian English Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) encompasses the varieties of English native to Canada. According to the 2016 census, English was the first language of 19.4 million Canadians or 58.1% of the total population; the remainder spoke French ( ...

Indigenous languages: *

Cree The Cree ( cr, néhinaw, script=Latn, , etc.; french: link=no, Cri) are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people. They live primarily in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada ...

* Ojibwe French: * American French **

Frenchville French Frenchville French is a moribund French dialect spoken in Frenchville, Pennsylvania, United States. Frenchville is a small community of Covington Township in Clearfield County. The language was the subject of fieldwork by Barbara Bullock, the co- ...

** Louisiana French ** Missouri French ** Muskrat French **

New England French New England French (french: français de Nouvelle-Angleterre) is a variety of French spoken in the New England region of the United States. It descends from Canadian French because it originally came from French Canadians who immigrated to New Eng ...

(a variety of Canadian French spoken in New England) *

Canadian French Canadian French (french: français canadien) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada. It includes Varieties of French#Canada, multiple varieties, the most prominent of which is Quebec French, Québécois (Quebec French). Formerly ''Can ...

Quebec French Quebec French (french: français québécois ), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada. It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in educa ...

** Ontario French ** Métis French *** Michif ** Acadian French *** Chiac ** Brayon ** Newfoundland French *

Haitian French Haitian French (french: français haïtien, Haitian Creole: ''fransè ayisyen'') is the variety of French spoken in Haiti. Haitian French is close to standard French. It should be distinguished from Haitian Creole. Phonology The phoneme co ...

* Saint-Barthélemy French Spanish: * American Spanish ** Isleño Spanish ** New-Mexican Spanish * Canarian Spanish * Caribbean Spanish * Central-American Spanish *

Costa Rican Spanish Costa Rican Spanish is the form of the Spanish language spoken in Costa Rica. It is one of the dialects of Central American Spanish. Phonetics The distinguishing characteristics of Costa Rican phonetics include the following: * Assibilation of ...

Cuban Spanish Cuban Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as it is spoken in Cuba. As a Caribbean variety of Spanish, Cuban Spanish shares a number of features with nearby varieties, including coda weakening and neutralization, non-inversion o ...

Dominican Spanish Dominican Spanish () is Spanish language, Spanish as spoken in the Dominican Republic; and also among the Dominican diaspora, most of whom live in the United States, chiefly in New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts ...

* Guatemalan Spanish * Mexican Spanish * Puerto-Rican Spanish Creole languages: * Antillean Creole *

Haitian Creole Haitian Creole (; ht, kreyòl ayisyen, links=no, ; french: créole haïtien, links=no, ), commonly referred to as simply ''Creole'', or ''Kreyòl'' in the Creole language, is a French-based creole language spoken by 10–12million people wor ...

* Jamaican Creole * Louisiana Creole *

Papiamento Papiamento () or Papiamentu (; nl, Papiaments) is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken in the Dutch Caribbean. It is the most widely spoken language on the Caribbean ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao), with official status in Arub ...

* Spanglish

Literature

American literature American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition thus is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also inc ...

* Canadian literature ** Indigenous literature of Canada * Costa Rican literature * Cuban literature *

Guatemalan literature Guatemalan literature is literature written by Guatemalan authors, whether in the indigenous languages present in the country or in Spanish. Though there was likely literature in Guatemala before the arrival of the Spanish, all the texts that exis ...

Honduran literature Honduran literature describes the literature birthed out of Honduras. The literary history of Honduras is intersects with aspects of political and socioeconomic atmosphere that has long been prevalent in Honduran history. In the ''Handbook of La ...

* Jamaican literature * Mexican literature

Religion

Clothing

* American clothing (Western wear) * American fashion *

Native American fashion Native American fashion (also known as Indigenous American fashion) encompasses the design and creation of high-fashion clothing and fashion accessories by the Native peoples of the Americas. Indigenous designers frequently incorporate motifs and ...

Cuisine

* American cuisine * Canadian cuisine **

French-Canadian cuisine The cuisine of Québec (also called "French Canadian cuisine" or "cuisine québécoise") is a national cuisine in the Canadian province of Québec. It is also cooked by Franco-Ontarians. Québec's cuisine is descended from 16th-century French c ...

* Dominica cuisine * Jamaican cuisine *

Mexican cuisine Mexican cuisine consists of the cooking cuisines and traditions of the modern country of Mexico. Its earliest roots lie in Mesoamerican cuisine. Its ingredients and methods begin with the first agricultural communities such as the Olmec and M ...

Mexican cuisine in the United States Mexican-American cuisine is the cuisine of Mexican Americans and their descendants, who have modified Mexican cuisine under the influence of American culture and immigration patterns of Mexicans to the United States. What many recognize as Mex ...

Symbols

Symbols of the United States National symbols of the United States are the symbols A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by ...

* Symbols of Canada ** Symbols of Alberta ** Symbols of British Columbia ** Symbols of Manitoba ** Symbols of Newfoundland and Labrador ** Symbols of the Northwest Territories ** Symbols of Nova Scotia **

Symbols of Nunavut Nunavut is one of Canada's territories, and has established several territorial symbols. Symbols of Nunavut # "Qimmiq" or "qimmik" is the Inuit language word for "dog" Great Seal Like Yukon Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and a ...

** Symbols of Ontario **

Symbols of Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island is one of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces, and has established several provincial symbols. Symbols References

{{Canada topic, Symbols of Provincial symbols of Prince Edward Island, * Provin ...

Symbols of Quebec The people and province of Quebec have created and established several symbols throughout Quebec's history to represent the collective identity of its residents. Many of Quebec's symbols are related to its history, to catholicism, to Quebec's wint ...

Symbols of Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is one of Canada's provinces, and has established several provincial symbols. Symbols References {{Canada topic, Symbols of Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, ...

** Symbols of Yukon *

Symbols of Mexico The national symbols of Mexico are the national flag, flag, the national coat of arms, coat of arms and the national anthem, anthem. The flag is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and red. The coat of arms features a golden eagle eating a snake ...

External links

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