Who are Americans?

I recently read an article where an Iranian man, now living in America, said that American people and American culture (movies, clothes, music, etc.)  are more popular in Iran than in any Arab country.  He mentioned the average American probably is not aware of this.
So I did some research and came up with some interesting results from various surveys. The best survey [...]

Hosean International Ministries (HIM) is an American nonprofit (Little Rock, Arkansas) that has provided over $4-million in supplies and aid to Haiti over the past decade.
Caleb Lucien founded HIM in 1984 to help residents of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, find opportunities to improve their lives physically and spiritually. After growing up [...]

AHEAD, Inc. (Adventures in Health, Education, and Agricultural Development) is an American nonprofit (Rockville, Maryland) that has been working since 1981 to save lives in distressed rural areas of Africa and other developing countries.
AHEAD has offices in the USA, Tanzania, The Gambia and Bermuda.
After working in Africa as a pediatrician and witnessing the deprivation and suffering [...]

Established in 1990, the International Youth Foundation (IYF) is working in more than 70 countries to improve the conditions and prospects for young people. Millions of young people have gained access to life skills, education, job training and opportunities critical to their future.
IYF believes there are thousands of effective programs throughout the world that are making [...]

The West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI), founded in 2002, was inspired by the vision of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and grew from cooperation with World Vision into a powerful public-private partnership with 13 of the world’s leading nonprofit organizations.
The objectives of WAI include:
1) Increase the level of access to sustainable, safe water and environmental sanitation services [...]

Global Grassroots (based in Hanover, NH) is a nonprofit organization which invests in social entrepreneurship to advance women’s wellbeing in poor countries.
In Rwanda, Global Grassroots offers Social Entrepreneurship Training and Venture Investments to genocide survivors, including widows, women with HIV/AIDS and victims of sexual assault. Investments assist in capacity building, skills training and assistance with [...]

Manoj Sinha and Charles Ransler, students at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, recently developed a business that uses rice husks that are a waste product of rice milling to provide electricity for rural villagers in India.
Husk Power Systems (HPS) has set up its service in two villages in Bihar, India and will expand [...]

National Geographic and GlobeScan conducted a study of 14,000 people in 14 countries. The Greendex study asked questions about their energy use and conservation, transportation choices, food sources, use of ‘green’ products, and attitudes toward the environment. The Greendex is the first survey to rank the performance of individual consumers within each country.
Brazil and India [...]