Synopsis

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in central North America, between Canada and Mexico. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million square kilometers), it is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area. With a population of over 328 million, it is the third most populous country in the world. The national capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous city is New York City.

Culture

The United States is home to many cultures and a wide variety of ethnic groups, traditions, and values. Aside from the Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Native Alaskan populations, nearly all Americans or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries. Mainstream American culture is a Western culture largely derived from the traditions of European immigrants with influences from many other sources, such as traditions brought by slaves from Africa. More recent immigration from Asia and especially Latin America has added to a cultural mix that has been described as both a homogenizing melting pot, and a heterogeneous salad bowl in which immigrants and their descendants retain distinctive cultural characteristics. The American Dream, or the perception that Americans enjoy high social mobility, plays a key role in attracting immigrants. Whether this perception is accurate has been a topic of debate. While mainstream culture holds that the United States is a classless society, scholars identify significant differences between the country's social classes, affecting socialization, language, and values. Americans tend to greatly value socioeconomic achievement, but being ordinary or average is also generally seen as a positive attribute.

Cuisine

American cuisine reflects the history of the United States, blending the culinary contributions of various groups of people from around the world, including indigenous American Indians, African Americans, Asians, Europeans, and so on. Americans like to eat meat, drink cola, beer, whiskey, brandy and other beverages, but dislike tea. Juices such as watermelon juice and orange juice are used as appetizers before meals. Alcohol is habitually consumed during meals. Americans are also fond of fast food and soft drink and causes fast food is a typical American food culture and is very popular.

Internship features

This course is organized by the Global Health institute(GHI) in University of Arizona. A group of lectures will provide nursing course to enable nursing student to understand the culture and nursing model of Tucson and Phoenix in the southwestern United States. In the region, there has a high rate of diabetes in the population of Mexican, which is similar to the liver diseases of the aborigines in Taiwan. These lectures will share their own experience how to take care these diseases and some skill to lower the rate of diabetes in their area. So though this course, student will know more skill to overcome these chronic diseases.

Internship institution

◎University of Arizona

Website:https://www.arizona.edu/