2. General Informations
Location: North America, bordering both the North Atlantic
Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and
Mexico.
Area: 9,826,675 km2 (3rd largest country in the world after
Russia and Canada).
Climate: Mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida,
arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the
Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the
southwest.
3. General Informations
Population: 320,760,000 (2015)
Religions: Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%,
Mormon 2%,
Jewish 1.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other 4.5%, none 16% (2015).
Ethnic Makeup: white 81.7%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%,
Amerindian and Alaska native 1%, native Hawaiian and
other Pacific islander 0.2% (2015).
4. 50 states of United States
The 50 Stars on the flag represent the
50 States of the United States of
America.
5. Meeting and Greeting Etiquettes
• Greetings are casual.
• A smile and a “hello”
are needed.
• Prefering handshake as a
first greeting. Hugging is suitable for family and
friends.
• Kissing in greeting is warm, and it is usually done
only in the context of relatives, lovers, and friends.
• Prefering to be called by their first name, and by
their title (Mr, Mrs and Miss).
6. Life Styles
• Quality of life in America is higher
• Average households’ income is 42.148.
• 89% of households have motor vehicle, 99% have
refrigerator, 76% have washing machine, 43%
have air- conditioner, 98% have television, 34.5%
have cooler and 28.5% have barbeque.
• In 2001, 68.1% of total
American population
has their own
apartments, flats or
houses.
7. Life Styles
• 80% of American people lives in city centers.
• Most of people live in buildings building in a large
area near the big city suburbs.
• In America, everything is bigger than Europe.
• The most important problem of the city is high
rate of using drugs.
8. Recreational
• Holidays
Independence Day (4th of
July), Thanksgiving,
Halloween, Christmas,
Labor Day, Memorial Day
• Sports
Football, Soccer, Hockey,
Lacrosse, Baseball
Basketball, NBA!
Nascars
9. Recreational
• Films
“Hollywood”
Oscar Nights and
Western
Gunslingers
• Musics
Ragtime, blues,
jazz, big band
“Swing”, country
western, rhythm &
blues, rock & roll,
hip-hop & rap.
10. Theatre in the USA - the
American drama art is drawing
above all from European
traditions. In the United States a
musical is the most popular
form of theatre performances.
Theatre Broadway is the most
famous American theatre in New
York. Second - near New York -
the centre of the American
drama life is Chicago.
THEATRE
11. Broadway Dance Center,
located in the heart of Times
Square in New York City, was
founded in 1984 as one of the
largest dance training schools in
the world, offering over 200
classes a week in Jazz, Tap,
Ballet, Hip Hop, Theater and
more. Dancers and performers
such as Bette Middler, Brooke
Shields, Britney Spears,
Madonna, *NSYNC, Jason
Samuels Smith, Almamy and
Elizabeth Berkley have taken
class or rehearsed at the school
and many Broadway performers
take class there daily.
DANCE
12. Music intertwines with
aspects of American social
and cultural identity,
including through social
class, race and ethnicity,
geography, religion,
language, gender and
sexuality. The relationship
between music and race is
perhaps the most potent
determiner of musical
meaning in the United
States.
MUSIC
13. Sports in the United States is
an important part of
American culture. The four
most popular team sports
are: baseball, American
football, basketball and ice
hockey. The major leagues
of these sports, the National
Football League (NFL), the
Major League Baseball
(MLB), the National
Basketball Association
(NBA) and the National
Hockey League (NHL).
SPORT
14. FILMS & OSCARS
Connecting built hits with
the weak dollar caused
that six greatest American
manufacturing companies
could be pleased with a
record-breaking box office
takings.
Awards of the Film Academy,
known universally under the
name Oscar, were created in
1927 (first granting awards,
for 1927 and 1928, stepped
16 May 1929). For years they
are being regarded as the
most prestigious film award.
16. The new year in the
United States has
impressive character
exceptionally. Anyway
most media. Every year
on the Square Times in
New York hundreds or
thousands of people
are coming out.
New Year
17. Martin Luther King Day This holiday is
celebrated on third
Monday of the January.
It is important for the
defence of human
rights, irrespective of
the race, the religion
and the origin.
18. Day of Swearing the New
President
Next important
holiday at the
beginning of the year
is Day of swearing
the new president.
The holiday is
celebrated on 20
January every four
years.
19. Day of the President
On third Monday of
the February is
celebrated a day of
the president. It was
established to honour
the famous American
presidents - George
Washington and
Abraham Lincoln.
20. Memorial Day
This holiday memory
of those who died
fighting for the good of
the country. It is
celebrated on the last
Monday in May.
21. Day of the Flag
On 14. June ,
Americans
celebrate Flag
Day.
22. Independence Day
Celebrated is 4. July.
During each
anniversary in USA
there are festivals,
parades and concerts.
In the evening there is a
firework display.
24. Thanksgiving Day
American celebrated
this holiday on the
fourth Thursday in
November. It has
religious background
and commemorates
the first Thanksgiving
pilgrims.
25. Super Bowl
Super Bowl is the final
match of the
championship in
American football
professional league
National Football League.
The whole ceremony has
become an informal U.S.
national holiday. Finals
Day is the second, after
Thanksgiving day, a day
with the most food eaten
in the United States.
