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Employees are treated as equals and independent views are welcomed. American work
culture involves a lot of meetings. These meetings need not deal with big decisions, but are more
like discussions, and are centered on analyzing, planning and reviewing of a project. Opinions and
ideas are shared and objections are made.
U.S. business culture is typically less formal and less hierarchical than other countries', reflecting the
American belief in equality. Employees often address one another by first name, have greater access
to superiors, and exhibit a relaxed approach to dress and communication.
Some values and characteristics of American culture
include:
• Independence.
• Privacy.
• Equality.
• Timeliness.
• Informality.
• Achievement.
• Directness.
• Future orientation.
SPORTS OF USA
There is a wide variety of organized sports in the continent of North America. The continent is the
birthplace of several of these organized sports, such as basketball, gridiron football (including both
American and Canadian games), ice hockey, lacrosse, racquetball, rodeo, ultimate, and volleyball.
Lacrosse may be the oldest organized sport in America.
SPORTS IN CANADA
• Hockey.
• Football.
• Baseball.
• Basketball.
• Soccer.
• Rugby league.
• Rugby union.
• Lacrosse.
LANGUAGE IN USA
English
The United States has no official language. English is spoken by the overwhelming majority of
Americans. Spanish is the second-most spoken language in the US after English. At least 350
languages are spoken in the US today.
Top 5 languages spoken in Canada
• English. As you may have guessed, English is the most commonly spoken language at
home in our country. ...
• French. Our other official language, French, is the second-most commonly spoken language
in Canada. ...
• Mandarin. ...
• Cantonese. ...
• Punjabi.
A common way of referring to regions in the United States is grouping them into 5 regions
according to their geographic position on the continent: the Northeast, Southwest, West, Southeast,
and Midwest.
North America occupies the northern portion of the landmass generally referred to as the New
World,
GEOGRAPHY OF CANADA
Canada has a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing land borders
with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the northwest. Canada stretches
from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean.
Canada is located in the top half of North America, and the country is bordered by three oceans: Pacific,
Atlantic and Arctic. In fact, we have the longest coastline of any country. To our south, we share nearly 9,000
kilometres of land border with the United States. That's the longest border in the world!
As of 2018, there are 19,495 incorporated cities, towns and villages in the United States.
14,768 of these have populations below 5,000. Only ten have populations above 1 million and
none are above 10 million. 310 cities are considered at least medium cities with populations of
100,000 or more.
STATES IN CANADA
Canada has 3 cities with more than a million people, 51 cities with between 100,000 and 1
million people, and 235 cities with between 10,000 and 100,000 people. The largest city in
Canada is Toronto, with a population of people.
TIMEZONE IN USA
The United States is divided into six time zones: Hawaii-Aleutian time, Alaska time, Pacific
time, Mountain time, Central time and Eastern time.
TIMEZONE IN CANADA
There are six time zones in Canada. From west to east the main time zones are: Pacific,
Mountain, Central, Eastern and Atlantic.
IT COMPANIES IN USA
Helping business owners for over 15 years. The number of software and information
technology services companies in the United States is close to 525,000 (with nearly 40,500
companies launching new technologies in 2018 alone), according to CompTIA.
IT COMPANIES IN CANADA
There are over 44,000 companies in the Canadian Information and Communications
Technologies (ICT) sector and the large majority (over 40,000) fall within the software and
computer services industries.
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