Interacting facts about American culture by Thanh Huyen Hoang https://padlet.com/hth2712/wavopt94fq015dgf Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2021-11-18 01:49:27 UTC 2021-11-18 02:16:19 UTC hello@padlet.com Room 2 https://padlet.com/hth2712/wavopt94fq015dgf/wish/1898378358
  • A country of diverse cultures
  • People love fast food: 404,686 m2 of pizza, 22 million chickens and a lot of fast food are consumed every day
  • High rate of single parent
  • Individualism: Teenager love to travel and summer camp, so they leave their home. After graduating secondary school, they would like to choose a university which is far from their hometowns. The student starts living in own residence and hall after completing two or four years of college when they come at the age of 17 or 18. Few of them don’t leave their home and choose to live with their family, so they don’t have own expense like laundry, shopping, cooking, etc.
  • The national flag was designed by a student: The current flag of the United States, with 50 stars and 13 stripes, was designed in 1958 by a 17-year-old high school student, Robert G. Heft, of Lancaster, Ohio. President Dwight D. Eisenhower chose this design out of 1,500 designs.


    • ]]>     2021-11-18 01:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hth2712/wavopt94fq015dgf/wish/1898378358     Room 4 https://padlet.com/hth2712/wavopt94fq015dgf/wish/1898379058 -The U.S. does not have any official language.
    -    Barack Obama became the first black president of the United States
    - T    he U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for just US$7.2 million in 1867
    - American Football (NFL) is great and popular !
    - The concept of freedom is important
    - Stereotype or maybe not : bad geography
    -Four Corners: Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico

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    - The U.S. is the world’s largest consumer of cocaine which is allegedly shipped from Columbia.
    - Four of the forty-five presidents of the United States have been assassinated in office.
    - Money is all the same color.
    - Pizza might originate from Italy, but the Americans sure do love their pizzas! Reports even claim that the pizzas that Americans eat every day would cover an area of 100 acres.
    -     The US has one of the most astounding rates of divorce on the planet. There are more single people than married people in the U.S. nowadays.



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    - There are hundreds of kilometres of bookshelves in the Library of Congress (Book lovers, welcome to utopia. The Library of Congress has around 1,348 kilometres of bookshelves, with more than 39 million books. That’s long enough to stretch all the way from Chicago to Houston.)
    - Virtually every country on earth aside from the United States measures temperature in Celsius. This makes sense; Celsius is a reasonable scale that assigns freezing and boiling points of water with round numbers, zero and 100.
    - Every countries in the world considers football as king of sport while Americans play baseball and basketball.



    ]]>     2021-11-18 01:54:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hth2712/wavopt94fq015dgf/wish/1898382814     Nhóm 5 https://padlet.com/hth2712/wavopt94fq015dgf/wish/1898385971 1, When Americans put their hands on their hips, they are usually relaxed; when they fold their arms tightly across their chests, they are angry or very serious.
    2. Americans open presents and cards in front of people
    3. big size meals
    4. political correctness 
    5. cultural diversity 
    6. aggressive cops
    7. Never be late
    8. takeaways/ drivethrough
    9. open-minded about sex education

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