American Way of Life.docVIP

American Way of Life The full name of the United States is the United States of American. Often we just call it the United States, the USA or simple America. There are only 310 million people in the USA today, less than a quarter of the population of China, but there is less cultural coherence in the USA than in China. The makes it difficult to generalize about the American way of life. Almost all of us think that American way of life is colorful and varied in postures. And, why? We can find some reasons or factors as follow: history, geographical regions, culture, religion and so on. And we can find that there are several characteristic of the American way of life. The first reason is the geographical regions. The continental United States lies in central North America with Canada to its north, Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico to its south, the Atlantic Ocean to its east and the Pacific Ocean to its west. The USA has a land area of 9.3 million square kilometers. It stretches 2575 kilometers from north to south and 4500 kilometers from east to west. It is the fourth largest country in the world is size after Russia, Canada and China. Traditionally from the east to west the United States can be divided into seven geographical regions. They are New England, the Middle Atlantic States, the Midwest, the south, the Great Plains, Rockies and intermountain region or the American west, the pacific coast and the new states. Because of its wide area, The second and the much important reason is the history. It is only more than 200 years since the United States won its independence. This does not mean that the history of the United States is too short to be worth discussion. It is true that the country was never ruled over by kings and big feudal nobles who filled up the history of other nations and are talked about almost endlessly. The nation has her history, not so very long, but full of significant contents. It is not a history of replacement of one dynasty by another or a