TRANSLATIONS

Course: Second BGU "B"

U.S
The different cultures adapt to the cities from the first immigration
that appeared in its history. A country built by foreigners that made
this country one of the greatest world powers recognized everywhere,
but sometimes so much power is not so convenient. Although its
inhabitants are very differentiated in culture and customs, most share
habits and characteristics that are typical of the United States.
The diversity of customs and traditions in the population of the
United States is evident in cultural life. This makes a great variety
of cultures, stand out as cultural manifestations, contemporary dance
companies, music, novelists and poets, sculptors, painters and
filmmakers.
Accustomed to being a high consumption people, we talk about all kinds
of products, especially hamburgers, fried foods and other "junk food",
which is often consumed by the lack of time for both cooking and
eating. Although the United States also has typical foods, ingredients
and preparations according to each of the states in which they can be
found.
There is a lot of variety of foods, low-calorie products are found in
any supermarket or kiosk, however, Americans often eat fast foods,
which always have a high level of calories, trans fats, cholesterol,
etc. It does not disappear.
In the United States there are several traditions that are adopted
many centuries ago, such as Thanksgiving, others commemorate important
events in their history, such as Independence Day, Memorial Day or the
Religious festivities such as St. Patrick's Day, or Good Friday, which
are part of the heterogeneous American culture.

Mexico
According to the period in which we live, many of these traditions
have changed the essence of their meaning, becoming commercial
festivities that we all hope for, whether for holidays, celebrations
or celebrations we make of them and we forget completely its true
meaning, is That is why we must teach our children to remember what it
means Christmas, Easter, Easter, Day of the Dead, etc. And together we
preserve this historic legacy, sharing it with the world and feeling
proud of being Mexican.
In Mexico there are about 56 ethnic groups, including Chinantecos,
Huastecos, Tarahumaras, Lacandones, Mayas, Mazahuas, Mazatecos,
Mixtecos, Otomes, Pimas, Tzeltales and Tzotziles, Yaquis, Zapotecos,
Chichimecas, Chinatecos, Nahuas, etc. This precious mosaic of
cultures, traditions and customs where many universes coexist, which
will inevitably end up captivating him. All these groups share a
significant number of similar cultural traits such as language,
clothing and mainly beliefs, such as thoughts about life and death,
nature, religion between Catholic and pagan, family groups, children ,
Women and the elderly, among other things that make up their wide
world of symbols and mythical and magical images.
The dance of the peoples of Mexico has a sacred knowledge of natural
phenomena, deities, living beings and the daily life. The music or the
sound of an object accompany the human body's movement to express its
sensation by the movement of its body. The Deer Dance is a ritual
dance performed by the Yaquis and Mayos Indians of the Mexican states
of Sinaloa and Sonora. This dance is a dramatization of the hunting of
the deer, cultural hero of these peoples, by the paskolas (hunters).

Brazil

Brazil is an eminently multicultural country, marked by large and

diverse migratory flows from all continents and the intense mestizaje
between them. Rio de Janeiro is a great cultural center of national
and world reach.
Popular Brazilian music is known globally, with a variety of
manifestations and styles such as samba, bossa nova, choro, ax,
lambada, forr, sertaneja, etc, but also popular styles are very
popular as Hip-Hop and rock. Some of Brazil's most well-known and
representative international successes may be the samba "Aquarela do
Brasil" [61] (popular) or the bossa nova "Garota de Ipanema" (The Girl
from Ipanema) by Antonio Carlos Jobim, well known internationally .

Argentina

The Argentine culture is marked by the multiethnic and multicultural

character of its population, the strong syncretism of its forms of
expression, and a positive valuation of progress and modernity, in
which a dual sense of belonging is combined, not without conflict.
European and Latin American cultures.
The tango is a musical style and a dance born in the suburbs of Buenos
Aires with international diffusion, strongly linked with Argentina,
but especially with Buenos Aires. In this musical genre Carlos Gardel,
considered as the King of Tango, and the world-renowned Astor
Piazzolla marplatense. Argentine folklore brings together the artistic
manifestations of the interior of Argentina. There have been areas
where some style prevailed (for example, zambas, briefs, chacareras,
chamaritas, chamams, malambo), although they have now experienced a
national spread. Atahualpa Yupanqui, Mercedes Sosa and Soledad
Pastorutti are among the most important exponents of these genres.

Colombia
Colombian folklore is very rich, both in number and in the variety of
its manifestations, to such an extent that each of the different
geographical regions of the country has its own folkloric
characteristics.
The Colombian Cumbia is the representative ball of the country, is a
rich expression left by the Africans. Also dances like the Fandango
left like descending the Joropo, well-known dance in the eastern
plains, nevertheless, each department has its music and dances that
characterize it because these are product of its history and of its
way of being.
Colombian music popularly have been recognized as national rhythms
bambuco, cumbia and vallenato. The different genres of Colombian folk
music have been influenced by Spanish, Amerindian and African elements
that formed the country's ethnography, as well as by other Latin
American and Anglo-Saxon currents that have made Colombian music one
of the richest in the region .