Sports:

Sports are an important part of culture in the United States. Historically, the national sport has
been baseball. However, in more recent decades, American football has been the most popular
sport in terms of broadcast viewership audience. Basketball has grown into the mainstream
American sports scene since the 1980s, with ice hockey and soccer doing the same around the
turn of the 21st century. These sports comprise the "Big Five". In the first half of the 20th century,
boxing and collegiate football were among the most popular sports after baseball. Golf, tennis,
and collegiate basketball are other spectator sports with longstanding popularity. Most recently,
Mixed martial arts, has been breaking records in attendance and broadcast viewership for all
combat sports

Tradictions:

 Thanksgiving feasts are the oldest tradition in America, dating back to 1621 — over 150
years before the Revolutionary War.
Though the first record of a Thanksgiving celebration was in 1621, it wasn't until 1863 that
Abraham Lincoln declared it a national holiday.
 Pumpkin carving is a popular Halloween tradition that has been around since 1866.
The first reference to pumpkin carving in the US was in the children's magazine Harper's
Young People, which reported "a great sacrifice of pumpkins" for Halloween in 1866.
 The Fourth of July has been celebrated with fireworks since 1777, a year after the colonies
claimed independence from Great Britain.
Though Fourth of July celebrations have been a tradition since 1777, it was only made a
federal holiday in 1941.
Fireworks have also been a tradition since the first Fourth of July. That year, the
Pennsylvania Evening Post reported, "At night there was a grand exhibition of fireworks
(which began and concluded with thirteen rockets) on the Commons, and the city was
beautifully illuminated."

 On the evening of Halloween, in North America and many other countries around the
world, groups of children can be seen walking the streets wearing costumes and visiting
their neighbors ’houses to receive candy.
Typical festive Halloween activities include Trick-or-Treating (going house to house to
receive sweets or food), attending costume parties, decorating, carving pumpkins into
jack-o’-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted houses, telling scary
stories, and watching horror films.

Gastronomy:

American cuisine consists of the cooking style and traditional dishes prepared in the United States.
It has been significantly influenced by Europeans, indigenous Native Americans, Africans, Asians,
Pacific Islanders, and many other cultures and traditions. Principal influences on American cuisine
are Native American, and immigrant heritages such as American Chinese, Greek American, Italian
American, Cajun, New Mexican, Louisiana Creole, Pennsylvania Dutch, soul food, Tex-Mex, and
Tlingit.

Whether fried chicken, biscuits, chicken and dumplings, chicken-fried steak and gravy, fried green
tomatoes, or shrimp and grits, these dishes are popular from California to Maine. Furthermore,
cornbread and corn pudding may have southern roots but couldn't be more American.