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Other nations can be connected to the United States. Other peoples of Western Civilization, American Indian peoples, African peoples, and Asiatic peoples in approximately that order of importance can be connected. |
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There are some regional differences in the connections to the northern United States, southern United States, and western United States.
The US is connected to many other nations such as Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Estonia, Mauritius, Swaziland, East Timor, Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji Qatar, Reunion, Cyprus, Guyana]. Those I have linked to are listed below along with the peoples they belong to.
The United States is considered to belong to Western Civilization along with Kosovo Macedonia, Slovenia.
The United States is the largest nation of the Anglic peoples. Jamaica can be connected.
The United States is by far the largest of the Anglo-American peoples. Canada is a close neighbor, with strong cultural connections.
Ireland can be connected. It is principally connected to the United Kingdom, as many of its institutions and much of its culture, language, and population are derived from Britain.
New Zealand can be connected. Australia can be connected.
A significant and increasing minority group is derived from latin peoples, including nations such as Panama.
Hispanic peoples including those of Uruguay are connected. Hispanic Mexican American peoples including Puerto Rico are closely related. Mexico is an immediate neighbor. Guatemala can be connected. Cuba can be connected. The Dominican Republic can be connected. Honduras can be connected. El Salvador can be connected. Nicaragua can be connected. Costa Rica can be connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples including those of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador can be connected. Spain is indirectly connected. Hispanic Peruvian American peoples including those of Bolivia can be connected. Peru can be connected. Chile can be connected. Hispanic Argentine American peoples including those of Paraguay are connected. Argentina can be connected.
French peoples including those of Haiti are connected. France can be connected.
Lusitanic peoples such as those of Portugal are somewhat weakly connected. Brazil can be connected.
Italic peoples including those of Italy are somewhat indirectly connected.
There are also connections to the germanic peoples including Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Austria.
There are various relationships with Northeast European peoples including those with Latvia. Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, and Belarus can be connected. Moldova can be connected. Lithuania can be connected.
Balkan peoples including those of Albania can be connected. Greece, Romania, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Bosnia and Herzegovina can be connected. Croatia can be connected.
Scancinavian peoples including Norway can also be connected. Sweden can be connected. Denmark can be connected. Finland can be connected.
1 Oct 2008 - Subprime mortgage crisis: U.S. Representative Carol Shea-Porter said that "more than 400 economists, including Nobel laureates, appealed to Congress to slow down and make sure [they] got [the bailout bill] right". Swedish Minister for Finance Anders Borg slammed the culture of "greed" exemplified by U.S. financial institutions and its role in precipitating the current financial crisis. The U.S. Senate approved HR1424, a revised version of the proposed bailout of the nation's financial system.
6 Oct 2008 - U.S. to rely on Russia for manned space flights between 2010 and 2015.
18 Oct 2008 - United States President George W. Bush met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso to discuss a proposal for a summit of world leaders to discuss the current economic crisis.
The United States was originally inhabited by American Indian peoples, who still remain as a minority population. is Jamaica is weakly connected.
North American Indian peoples were the original inhabitants and are important in United States History, although the current remnants form a minority of the population. Eastern North American Indian peoples and Western North American Indian peoples are significant. In Canada, Northern North American Indian peoples can be connected.
A few Middle American Indian peoples including those of Panama can be connected.
Southwestern American Indians are found partly in the United States and partly in Mexico.
Caribbean peoples including those of Puerto Rico can be connected. Cuba can be connected. The Dominican Republic can be connected. Haiti can be connected. Honduras can be connected. El Salvador can be connected. Nicaragua can be connected. Costa Rica can be connected.
Meso-American Indian peoples of Guatemala can be considered. Mexico can be connected.
South American Indian peoples including those found in Uruguay are less directly connected. Andean peoples such as those of Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, and Bolivia are somewhat connected. Amazonian peoples such as those of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay are weakly connected. Cono/Southern American Indian peoples including those of Argentina and Chile are weakly connected.
There are significant connections with African peoples, in part because of forced immigration of African slaves. Namibia Botswana, Gambia can be connected.
West African peoples including Liberia are closest.
Western Coastal West African people including those of Sierra Leone can be connected. Senegal can be connected. Guinea can be connected.
Southern Coastal West African peoples including those of Togo can be connected. Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Benin can be connected.
Interior West Africa including Mauritania can be connected. Burkina Faso can be connected. Niger can be connected. Mali can be connected.
Cemtral African peoples including Congo (Republic) are somewhat connected. Congo (DR) can be connected. Cameroon can be connected. Angola can be connected. The Central African Republic can be connected.
Southern African peoples including those of South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Lesotho can be connected.
East African peoples including Eritrea are rather more distant and somewhat less directly connected to the United States. Northern East Africa including Somalia can be connected. Ethiopia can be connected. Central East African peoples including those of Burundi are weakly connected. Tanzania can be connected. Kenya can be connected. Uganda can be connected. Rwanda can be connected. Interior East African peoples including those of Chad are weakly connected. Sudan can be connected.
1 Oct 2008 - A new U.S. Armed Forces Unified Combatant Command for Africa—AFRICOM—was created. Main functions of AFRICOM include fighting terror, securing oil supplies in Africa, and supporting U.S. foreign policy in the region where Chinese influence is growing.
Asiatic peoples such as those of Kuwait are connected.
Oriental people such as those of Hong Kong can be connected. Chinese peoples including those of Taiwan can be connected. China can be connected. Japan can be connected. Korean peoples including those of North Korea can be connected. South Korea can be connected.
3 Oct 2008 - United States government announced sale of billions of dollars of arms to Taiwan to keep a balance with China's massive arms buildup aimed at Taiwan.
11 Oct 2008 - The U.S. State Department removed North Korea from its list of sponsors of terrorism.
Southeast Asian peoples such as those of New Zealand can be connected.
Southeast Asian Archipelagoes are important. Papua New Guinea can be connected. The United States ruled the Philippines for a period. Indonesia is significant. The aborigines of Australia can be be connected. Mainland Southeast Asia is also connected. Singapore can be connected. The US was involved in a war in Vietnam. It has had fairly good relations with Thailand. Connections with Burma are less well known. Malaysia can be connected. Cambodia can be connected. Laos can be connected.
Middle eastern peoples such as those of Oman can be connected.
Levantine peoples including those of Lebanon can be connected. Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Syria, and Jordan can be connected.
Turkey has been an ally of the US.
There are also connections with Egypt.
Relations with Persian peoples such as those of Iran and Afghanistan are strained.
Mesopotamian peoples such as those of Iraq are significant, as the US has been at war there in recent times.
Arabian peoples such as those of United Arab Emirates can be connected. Saudi Arabia and Yemen can be connected.
North African peoples such as those of Libya are somewhat connected. Morocco can be connected. Algeria can be connected. Tunisia can be connected.
1 Oct 2008 - United States Army General David D. McKiernan, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, said that a greater military presence is "needed as quickly as possible."
4 Oct 2008 - Mahir al-Zubaydi, senior commander for al Qaeda in Iraq for Bagdad east of the Tigris River, was killed by U.S. troops.
8 Oct 2008 - The United States embassy in Beirut sought assistance in finding two US journalists missing in Lebanon.
9 Oct 2008 - War on Terrorism: NATO commander U.S. Army Gen. Bantz J. Craddock asked member countries for authority to target drug trade in Afghanistan. U.S. claimed 27 militants killed in military operations in Afghanistan. Suicide bomber attacked police headquarters in Pakistani capital of Islamabad, wounding eight. Two air strikes northwest of Pakistan killed 20 militants. US missile strikes in northwest of Pakistan kill at least nine. A roadside bomb in north-western Pakistan hit a school bus and a prison vehicle, killing four school children and at least six others.
26 Oct 2008 - United States Special Operations Forces, stationed in Iraq, launched a cross-border raid in Syria, attacking a civilian building under construction near Abu Kamal, Syria. The Syrian government stated 8 civilians were killed.
South Asian peoples such as those of Sri Lanka can be connected. India can be connected. Pakistan can be connected. Bangladesh can be connected. Nepal can be connected..
1 Oct 2008 - The United States Senate passed the civilian nuclear agreement with India by a vote of 86–13. India had not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but may now undertake nuclear trade to the States
27 Oct 2008 - Pakistani intelligence officials claimed that a US missile strike in South Waziristan had killed up to twenty people. The BBC claims that about 80 people were killed during US strikes into Pakistan over the past month.
Central Asian peoples such as those of Armenia seem to be weakly connected.
Mongolian peoples including those of Mongolia can be connected.
West Asian peoples such as those of Georgia can be connected. Azerbaijan can be connected.
Inner Asian peoples including those of Turkmenistan are not closely connected. Uzbekistan can be connected. Kazakhstan can be connected. Tajikistan can be connected. Kyrgystan can be connected.