Who is The Americans from The Story of English and what is their importance? The_Story_of_English English & Literature The Americans | The Story of English

The idea of an American is necessarily a pure construction. There were Native Americans who inhabited the United States prior to European immigration. While Americans are sometimes thought of as first English-speaking people with multiple nationalities always comprised the American identity. Most Americans have become a nationality separate from the particular ethnicity of Americans. The reason that the American people are the second major group of importance in The Story of English is because English is the national language of the United States and has been the overwhelmingly dominant language of all the many peoples that comprise the United States.