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• Is a constitutional federal republic composed of fifty states and one federal district. Most of the country is located in central North America, where there are forty-eight contiguous states and Washington D. C., the district capital, between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and south Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, bordered by Canada to the east and west separated from Russia by the Bering Strait.

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The gastronomy of The United States is similar to that of other western countries, with the wheat being the cereal most used.The traditional American kitchen uses ingredients as the turkey, meat of deer, potatoes, yams, maize, gourds, honey of maple and other indigenous elements used by the American Indians and the first European settlers.

Relig

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• The United States is officially a lay condition; the First Amendment guarantees the free exercise of the religion and prohibits the establishment of any religious government.

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• The Americans tend to be more informal than the persons of other countries.

• It is common that they dress in an informal way to go to the school. Some companies need that his employees dress of uniform or suit.

• Some restaurants of prestige or of luxury request that his clients use sack and tie.

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• The Englishman is the national language of fact. Though no official language exists to federal level, some laws - as the Requirements for the Naturalization - place the English as obligatory language.

• The Spanish spoken by 12 % of the population, is the most spoken second language, and the one that more commonly is learned as the second language.

Econ

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• His currency is the dollar.• The United States is the biggest importer of goods

worldwide and the third party in terms of exports, though the exports per capita are relatively low for a developed country.

• In turn, the American companies of Coca Cola, McDonalds and Microsoft are the brands most recognized in the world.

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• The United States is a multicultural nation, home of a wide variety of ethnic groups, traditions and valores.

• The common culture for the majority of the Americans is a western culture, which largely comes from the traditions of the European immigrants with influences of many other sources, such as the traditions brought by the slaves of África.

Holid

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• January : Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

• February : Presidents Day• May: Memorial Day• 4 of july: Independence Day• 31 of october: Halloween• 11 of november: Veterans' Day

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• It is a constitutional, democratic and representative republic, " that the mandate of the majority is regulated by the rights of the minorities, protected by the law " .48 The government is regulated by a system of controls and balances, defined by the Constitution, which serves as the legal supreme document of país.

• 49 In the federalist American system, the citizens are generally subject to three levels of government: federal, state and local; the duties of the local government commonly divide between the governments of the counties and municipalities

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