America is the biggest migration country of the world. It is a federation republic contry consisting of 50 states, 1 united government direct control capital district and 20 American overseas territories. The land area is around 9.629 million square kilometers, with the population around 315.35 million (2013). The majority of its land situated at the middle of North America, connecting with Canada by its north, close to Mexico bay by its south, facing the Pacific ocean by its west and close to the Atlantic ocean by its east. The capital is Washington, D.C. and the biggest city is New York.
The main climate in America is temperate continental climate, the landform has a great impact to the climate. There is less drought at main agriculture area, and the flood is not often. The temperate is warm and enough to get suitable rainfall.
America has over 17 thousand local plants and species, which is the most diversified of the world. Also it is one of the countries to start pay attention to the environmental protection of the world. At 1872 the federal government had built the Yellow Stone National Park to protect local environment, becoming the first national part of the world.
America has abundant natural resources. Coal, natural gas, iron ore, leopoldite, phosphate mines and sulphur. Most of the strategic resources such as titanium, manganese, cobalt, chromium rely on import. The total standard of medical condition is high, it has brilliant facilities, the places where provide medical services are hospital, clinic office, nursing house, recovery center, independent diagnose center and drugstore. It has complete and convenient transport network, there are diversified transporting tools and ways. A lot of important inventories in human industrial history, including cotton gin, universal parts and production lines were derived from America. The production lines for industry is particularly important, it makes the vast production of industry from dream into reality. The average educational standard is pretty high, according to the economic index survey conducted by United Nations, the educational standard in America is the best of the world.
Nowadays every one in five immigrates is living in America. It is a multi-culture and multi-national country, has global influences on economics, politics and military force. Its direction of its foreign policy has always been to focus and discussed by the world, and it has the biggest scale of foreign relations.
Diversification and personality, seeking for democracy and equality, full of adventure spirit and creative American culture make America to become the lead of the world in economics, politics, technology, military, culture, education and so on.
The main content of American culture is to emphasize personal value, to seek the democracy freedom, to encourage development and competition, to focus on logics and practice. The core value is individualism: to make person the first, to make self desire the first, to seek personal benefit the first and personal enjoyment to first. It emphasizes that by the personal strive and self design to make the personal value happen. The may of model oneself has positive but also negative sides. It exercises one’s activity, to fully develop people’s wisdom and potential, in order to develop the nation and the country. However, if everyone considers itself as the center, the people’s relationship will be difficult to become smooth, and the whole society will be lack of coagulation capacity.
The American public pays highly attention to achievement, they admire the heroes and the successful people. Personal achievement is one of the highest value among American values. Americans have strong successful will. They pursue to become successful, is the motive to make progress. They strongly believe, the value of oneself equals the value of him on his career. Some successful entrepreneurs, scientists, artists and super stars, become the heroes of the new era. The process and outcome of their personal development become the icon of culture value and the educational book by parents.
America is a fast moving society, which reflects in two ways: geographical move and society move. The relative open society, developed transportation and adventure tradition make many Americans moving from countryside to city, from city center to suberb, from north to southern sunshine area, from one city to another. The class of American society is not as firm as European countries, and with the spread of public education, makes it happen about the upward moving of the society. Lots of people who live in America, no matter natives or immigrates, all have a dream, that is through hard working to change their social class and achieve their dream, which is to be called the “American dream”.
