estados unidos

historia
Puede decirse que la historia de los Estados Unidos de América comenzó a partir de la colonización británica de Norteamérica, protagonizada por inmigrantes británicos que fundaron por oleadas, entre los siglos XVII y XVIII, Trece Colonias en la costa atlántica del subcontinente norteamericano, ubicadas al este de los Apalaches, entre las posesiones francesas del Québec y la LuisianaIt can be said that the history of the United States of America began with British colonization of North America, starring British immigrants who founded in waves, between the seventeenth and eighteenth Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic coast of the North American continent, located east Appalachia, between the French possessions in Quebec and Louisiana
Ubicacion
The United States is one of thetwo North American countries. This limits the north and northwest by Canada, with about eight thousand eight hundred ninety-three km, east is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by the Straits of Florida, the south by the Gulf of Mexico and three thousand one hundred forty-one km border with Mexico, on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the northwest by the Bering Strait and theSouthern Ocean, we are talking about the state of Alaska. Recalling that the United States is composed of fifty state and that two of them are in their territory, I mean Hawaii and Alaska.
Los Estados Unidos es uno de los dos países de América del Norte. Este limita al Norte y noroeste con Canadá, con unos ocho mil ochocientos noventa y tres km, al este es bañado por las aguas del Océano Atlántico,al suroeste con el estrecho de la Florida, al sur con el Golfo de Méjico y con tres mil ciento cuarenta y un km de fronteras con Méjico, al Oeste con el Océano Pacífico y al noroeste con el Estrecho de Bering y el Océano Glacial, estamos hablando del estado de Alaska. Recordando que los Estados Unidos es un país compuesto con cincuenta estado y que dos de ellos no están dentro de su territorio, merefiero a Hawái y Alaska.

Cultura
United States is a multicultural nation, home to a wide variety of ethnic groups, traditions and valores.6 192 Apart from the now small populations of Native Americans and Hawaiians, nearly all Americans or their ancestors immigrated in the past five siglos.193 The common culture for most Americans is a Western culture, much of which comes from the traditionsof European immigrants with influences from many other sources, such as traditions brought by slaves from Africa.6 194,195 Recently, immigrants Asia and Latin America have added more items to this cultural mix that has been described as "a melting pot and homogenized in a heterogeneous salad bowl" in which immigrants and their descendants retain, share and absorb many cultural characteristicsdistintivas.6
According to an analysis of cultural dimensions developed by Geert Hofstede, the U.S. has one of the highest rates of individualism than any other country estudiado.196 While popular culture in the country is considered as a classless society, 197 several scholars identify significant differences that can be considered as social classes, affecting socialization, language andvalores.198 199 The American working middle class has been the initiator of many contemporary social trends such as modern feminism, environmentalism and multiculturalismo.200 Unlike other cultures, most women work outside the home and have some licenciatura.201 In 2007, 58% of Americans age 18 and over were married, 6% were widowed, 10% divorced and 25% had never casado.202
The same study also found thatHofstede socially Americans, their cultural expectations and the image they have of themselves are associated with their jobs and occupations in an unusual degree estrecho.203 This also has the tendency to value more socioeconomic achievements, so that the fact that an ordinary or average is seen as a positive attribute most casos.204 Although the "American Dream" and the perception that...