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Today I am going to be talking about two different cultures, the Spanish one and the American one.

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I am going to focus on two main points, the economy and the education.

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But before that, I am going to start off by talking about how these countries were built.

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The Spanish one, as you all might know, it was built by the search of power and money

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of its leaders, involving Spain in many, many wars, but finally having the biggest and strongest

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empire in the world at that moment.

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In America, while other countries were already surfing the oceans, they were still a some

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basic country.

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They were really undeveloped and barely with no technology.

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Now I'm going to discuss how this might affect the present situation, starting by the economy.

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Like I said, America was a savage country, but somehow they have managed to become the

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first world power with the strongest economy in the world, while Spain did it otherwise.

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They became one of the weakest economies in Europe, being from one of the biggest and

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strongest empires in Europe and in the world.

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Many people refer to Spain like the ass of Europe.

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Isn't that something to think about?

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That is my question.

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The next point, the education.

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I'm going to explain some aspects of both education that I felt personally.

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In the USA the classes are longer, which is good because you always have time at the end

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to do homework and to ask questions to the teacher.

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Also schools are bigger and with more technology.

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Like every teacher has their own computer where they can save and keep track of grades

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or themes or whatever.

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And every teacher uses powerpoints, videos and things like that.

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Also the school I went to in America, they have things like laboratories or weight rooms,

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gyms, even tracks inside of the high school.

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The one aspect that really shocked me was the relationship between education and sports.

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really go together as athletes in high school if they don't do good in school

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the coaches won't let them play in the game which is a really good motivation

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for athletes to work harder on their grades seeing that they might not do if

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they wouldn't have that push. While in Spain what I felt after my whole year

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starting here is that they really try to squeeze the information into the students by using

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very strict systems and very boring classes and things like uniform that really makes

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students hates school.

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With all of this, America has become a country that receives students from all over the world

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to study abroad.

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While in Spain people choose to study abroad to get a better education.

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So is there something to think about?

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That is my question.