North American Culture Vs Spanish Culture

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The issue focused on in this essay is the many cultural differences and similarities between the North American and the Spanish cultures, being both two influent countries in various scenes. In this paper, it will be taken into account the demographic, political, social and cultural features of each community to be able to analyze properly the two of them. Firstly, according to the demographic characteristics, there are a few obvious aspects that affect the rest of the areas to compare. For example, following the data provided in the 2016 census, Spain has a population of 46.5 million people, whereas the US has a much higher amount: 325.4 million, being there up to six different ethnic groups, while an 89.9% of the Spanish population is purely

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