'''آمریکایی‌ها''' {{به انگلیسی|Americans}} یا '''مردم آمریکا''' {{به انگلیسی|American people}} به اهالی کشور [[ایالات متحده آمریکا]] اعم از بومی و دارندگان شهروندی این کشور گفته می‌شود.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/american |title=American |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line. --> |work=Dictionary |publisher=Merriam-Webster, Incorporated |accessdate=January 13, 2013 |quote=3: a citizen of the United States }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/American?q=American |title=American |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line. --> |work=American English |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=January 13, 2013 |quote=1 a native or citizen of the United States. }}</ref> آمریکایی‌ها بر پایه شهروندی طبقه بندی می‌شوند در صورتی که از قومیت‌ها و ملیت‌های مختلفی تشکیل شده‌اند.<ref>{{cite book |last=Shklar |first=Judith N. |title=American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion |series=The Tanner Lectures on Human Values |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8n829DOw1PMC&lpg=PA4&dq=American%20nationality%20citizenship&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=American%20nationality%20citizenship&f=false |accessdate=December 17, 2012 |year=1991 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674022164 |pages=3–4 }}<br/>{{سخ}}{{cite journal |last1=Slotkin |first1=Richard |year=2001 |title=Unit Pride: Ethnic Platoons and the Myths of American Nationality |journal=American Literary History |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=469–498 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi= |url=http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=div2facpubs |accessdate=December 17, 2012 |quote=But it also expresses a myth of American nationality that remains vital in our political and cultural life: the idealized self-image of a multiethnic, multiracial democracy, hospitable to differences but united by a common sense of national belonging. }}<br/>{{سخ}}{{cite book |last=Eder |first=Klaus |last2=Giesen |first2=Bernhard |title=European Citizenship: Between National Legacies and Postnational Projects |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lL-FiY6xhfUC&lpg=PA26&dq=%22American"American%20nationality%22"%20citizenship&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q=%22American"American%20nationality%22"%20citizenship&f=false |accessdate=February 1, 2013 |year=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199241200 |pages=25–26 |quote=In inter-state relations, the American nation state presents its members as a monistic political body-despite ethnic and national groups in the interior. }}<br/>{{سخ}}{{cite book |last=Petersen |first=William |last2=Novak |first2=Michael |last3=Gleason |first3=Philip |title=Concepts of Ethnicity |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7Mkxdz_3d-oC&lpg=PA62&vq=To%20be%20or%20to%20become%20an%20American&pg=PA62#v=snippet&q=To%20be%20or%20to%20become%20an%20American&f=false |accessdate=February 1, 2013 |year=1982 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674157262 |page=62 |quote=To be or to become an American, a person did not have to be of any particular national, linguistic, religious, or ethnic background. All he had to do was to commit himself to the political ideology centered on the abstract ideals of liberty, equality, and republicanism. Thus the universalist ideological character of American nationality meant that it was open to anyone who willed to become an American. }}</ref> به غیر از [[سرخ‌پوستان ایالات متحده آمریکا|جمعیت بومی آمریکا]]، به طور کلی همه آمریکایی‌ها و یا اجدادشان در پنج قرن گذشته به آمریکا مهاجرت کرده اندکرده‌اند.<ref>Fiorina, Morris P. , and Paul E. Peterson (2000). ''The New American Democracy''. London: Longman, p. 97. ISBN 0-321-07058-5.</ref> با وجود ترکیب چند قومی آن<ref name="DD">Adams, J.Q. , and Pearlie Strother-Adams (2001). ''Dealing with Diversity''. Chicago: Kendall/Hunt. ISBN 0-7872-8145-X.</ref><ref name="Society in Focus">Thompson, William, and Joseph Hickey (2005). ''Society in Focus''. Boston: Pearson. ISBN 0-205-41365-X.</ref>، فرهنگ مشترک اکثر آمریکایی‌ها به عنوان [[فرهنگ و هنر آمریکا|فرهنگ غالب آمریکا]]، [[فرهنگ غربی]] تا حد زیادی از سنت‌های مهاجران [[اروپای غربی]] و [[اروپای شمالی|شمالی]] ترکیب شده را، می‌توان اشاره کرد.<ref name="DD"/>
