Integration & Identity

Use this quote sorter to read how focus group participants answered the question, “What does it mean to be you in America?”

In a new analysis based on dozens of focus groups, Asian American participants described the challenges of navigating their own identity in a nation where the label “Asian” brings expectations about their origins, behavior and physical self.

Pew Research Center’s political typology sorts Americans into cohesive, like-minded groups based on their values, beliefs, and views about politics and the political system. Use this tool to compare the groups on some key topics and their demographics.

Latinos with darker skin color report more discrimination experiences than Latinos with lighter skin color.

Republicans and Democrats continue to differ over the factors they see as important for being “truly American.”

Large ideological divides persist on views of tradition, national pride and discrimination, especially in the U.S.

At least 76 of the voting members of the 117th Congress are foreign born or have at least one parent born in another country.

More than half of foreign-born Latinos describe themselves using the name of their origin country, versus 39% among U.S.-born adult children of immigrants.

In some EU nations, sizable minorities speak something other than their country's national language in their household.

Recently arrived immigrants have markedly different education, income and other characteristics from those who have been in the U.S. for longer.