It largely depends on whom you’re asking. I think your average Midwest American doesn’t know what it is. Or if they do, don’t really care for it or like it. Lipton bagged black teas are their standard. Usually served with a lot of sugar and or lemon juice.

Arizona Tea company has a sweetened green tea that has been sold in major grocers and convenience stores for decades. It’s very popular and is known for it’s cherry blossom motif. I don’t want to rag on them because I think they’re a decent company, but it’s sugar water and green tea might be loosely defined there.

Boba culture has made the younger generations aware of green tea. And they can give you a run for your money when it comes to cultural knowledge. But they would be largely clustered in urban and suburban neighborhoods.

In America, when I see a non-Asian person drinking a boba tea or even a Starbucks Matcha it warms my heart just a little.

I would say that there is not much of a “culture” around green tea specifically, as there tends to be a much stronger culture of black tea, at least where I am on the east coast (Hot black tea in the Northeast/New England, iced/sweetened black tea in the Southeast).

As others have stated, most Americans would be familiar with it in teabags or bottled green tea, and so many who do end up trying it don’t enjoy it because they end up trying a bitter, lesser-quality version of it. Others may be familiar with it in Japanese or Chinese restaurants, where the quality is hopefully better, but this probably cannot be rightly called American green tea culture.

In my experience, it is the sort of thing where the green teabags might be the only ones left in an office meeting room because, while someone thought to stock the meeting room with green tea in the first place, all the others have been used up first and then someone has forgotten to refill them.

Most Americans would think of Arizona green tea, which while delicious isn’t what I’d consider real green tea.

Like others have said, pretty much non existent.

There’s not even a big tea culture overall. About the only non alcoholic beverage that has what could be called a culture, where there’s a social aspect with a depth that extends beyond just drinking something is coffee, and even that isn’t the kind of thing you’d find in other places.

It does exist mind you, but it’s pretty exclusively a family centric thing in what little I’ve seen.

Like, we do have tea houses, and we have places where green tea making and drinking is based on a kind of pan-asian motif, or japanese tea houses. But for the most part, if you want something that isn’t commoditized, you’d look good families that have their own culture built up over generations, and that’s still extremely rare from what I’ve run into.

I know exactly one family that has a green tea culture, and only two that have a more general tea culture.

This isn’t to say people don’t drink green tea. Plenty do, including myself (both cold and hot). But it’s about like making koolaid to most people. It’s just making something to drink, with no other meaning or import. Now, I kinda got into the more ritual side of green tea briefly, back when I was still able to do the whole martial arts thing, and that’s one place you do sometimes find green tea culture here, but it’s almost always with Japanese marital arts. But I never really internalized that, it was more of a curiosity and experience thing than something I was dedicated to doing.