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even though the united states and mexico
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are next-door neighbors but their
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countries and cultures
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are very very different i’ve been to
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both these two beautiful countries
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during my travels and i really did
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love them both so today i decided to
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make a video where i’m going to be
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comparing the daily lives of
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people living in the us and mexico and
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yeah i really hope you’re going to enjoy
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it let’s go
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cars the u.s has the fourth highest card
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person ratio
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in the world with 838 cars per 1000
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people
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that’s because in many areas of america
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public transportation isn’t very
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reliable and most people have to rely on
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cars to get around
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cars are widely available however
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because the us has the sixth
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largest automobile industry in the world
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with brands like
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four general motors chrysler and tesla
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producing over 3 million cars per year
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on the other hand mexico has 297 cars
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per 1000 people and while they don’t
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have
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any car brands of their own a total of
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42 car makers have set up factories in
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mexico which produce over 400 car models
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making mexico’s automotive industry one
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of the most
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buried in the world currency america
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uses the united states dollar as its
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currency they have seven
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banknotes which range from one to one
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hundred dollars and that feature
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former presidents and founding fathers
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like abraham lincoln george
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washington and benjamin franklin it has
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a pretty strong value with 100
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equaling around 91 euros mexico’s
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currency is the mexican
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peso they have six banknotes that range
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from 20 to 1 000 pesos and they depict
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important people in mexican history
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such as artists like diego rivera and
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frida kahlo revolutionary priest miguel
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hidalgo
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and even an ancient aztec leader whose
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name i can’t pronounce the mexican peso
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is weaker than the united states dollar
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and 100
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mexican pesos equals about 4.25 us
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dollars and
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3.81 euros food american foods are
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heavily influenced by its long history
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of immigration and have developed
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through time
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everyone knows about hamburgers and hot
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dogs at this point but different cities
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and states have their own signature
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dishes
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from lobster rolls in maine to a new
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york bagel with cream cheese
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a philadelphia cheesesteak louisiana
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jambalaya
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tennessee hot chicken key lime pie from
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florida chicago
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style deep dish pizza and alaskan salmon
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there’s no shortage of great foods to
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try
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in america if you know what to look for
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mexico is often voted to have some of
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the best cuisine
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in the world rooted in thousands of
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years of tradition
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mexican food is not only full of flavor
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it’s full of
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love most people are familiar with their
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most famous dishes like enchiladas tacos
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al pastor
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and tamales but like the united states
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they have tons of great regional dishes
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like the cheeto from chiapas or hot and
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chocolate watch nango from veracruz
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birya in guadalajara asado de goda from
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zacatecas yucatan panucho machacha from
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the north and chilorio from sinaloa
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i know that in america mexican food is
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actually super super popular do i have
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to say that
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the mexican food in the us and the
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mexican food in mexico is quite
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different so if you’re watching this
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from the us and you ever get the chance
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to go to mexico
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to try those foods definitely go for it
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uh you won’t be disappointed
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music jazz was born in new orleans from
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cartoons and creoles combining their
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music with influences from french
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canadians
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blues came from southern slaves turning
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their field shouts
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into music country music is a
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combination of blues and appalachian
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folk music
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r b came from jazz and blues brock was
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born out of blues r b
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and country american music is diverse
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but also
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interconnected mexican music also has
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many influences from its own native
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peoples as well as from africa and
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europe
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everyone is familiar with mariachis but
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there are many other faces of mexican
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music as well
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there’s korita which inspired the
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mexican people through independence and
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revolution
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then there’s is menos which comes from
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the indigenous zapotec people
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banda is music everyone loves to dance
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to and of course
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american caribbean and latin american
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music have made mexican rap rock and
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reggaeton
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very popular in recent years language
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believe it or not the united states does
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not actually have an official language
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english is the most frequently spoken by
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a long shot though with more than 230
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million speakers
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but it’s very common to hear other
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languages from all over the world
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everywhere you go there are over 37
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million spanish speakers 3 million
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speakers of mandarin and cantonese 1.3
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million french speakers 1.6 million
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tagalog
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speakers among many many more in mexico
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spanish is the main language and is used
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as the common language between
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all mexicans but the mexican government
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also formally
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recognizes 68 indigenous languages
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though only about six percent of the
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country speaks an indigenous language
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and very unfortunately some of the
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indigenous languages are endangered and
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could become
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extinct in the coming decades man i
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really hope that people living in the us
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and mexico
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will make sure that those beautiful
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beautiful indigenous languages
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actually stay alive and we don’t end up
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losing them healthcare america’s
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healthcare system has
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excellent quality of care but it is by
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far the most expensive healthcare
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in the world in 2018 the average
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healthcare spending per person was
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10 586 dollars for just one year which
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is
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nine times higher than the cost of
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health care was in 1960
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even after adjusting for inflation this
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is because the us has no universal
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health care plan and most americans have
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to rely on health insurance to make sure
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they’re covered which is very very
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expensive
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conversely mexico does have a state-run
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healthcare system with state-run
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hospitals but they
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are widely regarded as inadequate that
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is why in recent years there has been an
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increase in the number of private
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hospitals which now make up around
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two-thirds of the total number of
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hospitals
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in mexico but only around seven percent
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of people have private health care as
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it’s very
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very expensive now that we are almost
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halfway through the video i want to take
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a
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short break here to tell you about this
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beautiful new channel i created called
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educational fast based really
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interesting videos about the beautiful
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world we live in and actually this video
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that i’m making right now is an
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extension of a similar video i made on
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the channel which you can see here
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so the mission of the channel is to make
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cool amazing educational content that
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you
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legends could enjoy so obviously we have
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many different videos about
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many different countries and quite a few
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about both u.s and mexico
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thanks so much let’s get back to the
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video housing
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housing in the u.s is extremely
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expensive in the past buying homes was
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quite easy for many young people but
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through the years housing costs have
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increased
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faster than wages and today more and
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more people are finding it difficult to
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save enough money to buy
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a house because prices are so high in
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2018 the average
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national monthly rent was 1025 dollars
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and
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polls show that two-thirds of renters
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would not be able to afford
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a house as the average cost for a house
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is two hundred
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thousand dollars compared to the united
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states mexico’s housing is
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cheap but they have their own fair share
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of problems the average national cost
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for a one bedroom apartment is around
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200 us dollars but most people in mexico
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don’t live in apartments and instead
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live in houses with their families the
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average cost for a house in
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mexico is around 90 000 us dollars which
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is
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very very expensive for most mexicans as
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a result it’s most common to see two or
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three generations of one family
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renting a house together as that is the
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most affordable option for many
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by now i’ve done quite a few country and
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city comparison videos on my channel and
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of course on stay curious
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and it really does seem like housing
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truly is a pretty
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big problem all around the world really
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hope
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we can somehow fix it in the future
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holidays the united states has seven
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national holidays which include new
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year’s day martin luther king
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junior’s day memorial day independence
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day labor day and thanksgiving
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and even though america doesn’t have a
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state religion around 75 percent of the
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country identifies
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as christians so christmas day is also
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considered
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to be national holiday mexico on the
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other hand has 12
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public holidays which include
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constitution day benito juarez
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independence day revolution day and the
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day of the dead
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which dates all the way back to an old
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aztec festival
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hundreds of years ago and of course with
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82 percent of the country practicing
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catholicism
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monday thursday good friday and
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christmas day are all considered public
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holidays as well
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actually last time i got to visit mexico
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i was there during the day of the dead
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and
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boy oh boy was that an incredibly
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interesting
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celebration if you ever get the chance
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to go there during the day of the dead
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go for it uh you won’t be disappointed
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nightlife americans
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love their nightlife bars pubs taverns
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lounges and clubs can be found
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all over the us not just in cities sales
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from those businesses reach
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23 billion dollars a year and are a
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stable part of american culture because
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it’s something everyone can enjoy
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together regardless of age gender and
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race
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in america there’s a nightlife scene for
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everyone and every occasion
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nightlife looks different in mexico but
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they love it just
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as much as the neighbors to the north
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while clubs and trendy bars are
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generally only found
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in cities people often throw parties in
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their homes where anyone is welcome to
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join them dance and have a great time
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in fact most mexicans put americans to
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shame when it comes to dancing is even
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the elderly can dance
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all through the night and into the next
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morning with a smile on their face
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parties in america are epic but there’s
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just something
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extra special about the the energy that
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that mexicans seem to have i really
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really do
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dig their vibe travel the united states
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has the fourth strongest passport
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in the world with permission to travel
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visa-free or with visas on arrival to
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169 countries however only about 42
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percent of americans
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actually have passports and domestic
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travel is a lot more common
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than international travel with states
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like california texas florida and new
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york
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being the most popular destinations
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those who do have passports though use
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them a lot and the country they travel
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to the most
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by far is in mexico speaking of mexico
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they have the 15th
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most powerful passport in the world and
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can travel to 149 countries without
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a visa or with a visa on arrival like
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americans
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mexicans prefer to travel within their
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own country but unlike
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americans they don’t go to the places
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most visited by foreign tourists instead
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they go to puerto vallarta and
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acapulco for those who do travel
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internationally popular destinations are
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spain france and canada but the most
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traveled to country for mexicans
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is the united states of america wait so
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despite all the beef these countries
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seem to have in the
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you know international stage actually
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they really do love each other
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just look at how much they uh they
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travel to each other’s country it’s
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um it’s incredible family in america
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generally only one generation of one
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family lives together in one house
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the once typical nuclear family of a
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mother and father and their 2.5 children
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has become less and less
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common in the last several decades as
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things like divorce single parenting
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teen
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pregnancy same-sex marriage and adoption
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have all become increasingly prevalent
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and normal in american society
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mexicans on the other hand are very
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family oriented it’s very common to see
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two or three generations of a family
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living together and divorce is less
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common than it is in the united states
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however the fertility rate is much lower
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than it used to be
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in the 1960s the average number of
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children a woman would have was
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6.7 and today that number has fallen to
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2.16
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despite the obvious obvious downsides
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for you know the society
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but this could actually turn out for the
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best for the mothers as they can
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you know i guess have more spare time to
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you know focus on their career or
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or travel or do whatever else their
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heart is into native peoples the only
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non-immigrant
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people in the us are the native
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americans but unfortunately there aren’t
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very many left
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there are only 5 million indigenous
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americans in the united states and
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around 22 percent of them
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live on reservations which are federally
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recognized pieces of land where the us
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government has no jurisdiction despite
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strong efforts native traditions
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languages songs dances
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and wisdom struggle to survive in modern
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american society
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as native people are disproportionately
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affected by poverty unemployment
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poor health and bad education native
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americans are often seen as
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outcasts in their own country the lives
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of indigenous people look
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very different in mexico where 25
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million people identify as
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indigenous making it one of the two
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largest native populations
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in the americas along with peru while
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the lives of the native peoples of
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mexico aren’t perfect and they face
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their own struggles native traditions
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have found their way into modern mexican
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culture as mexican people find great
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value in holding on
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to traditions things like silversmithing
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mosaics clay pottery and basket weaving
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are common traditions that have existed
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in mexico for millennia
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on the bright side however some states
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in america have actually started
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replacing columbus day
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with indigenous people’s day literature
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the united states has produced some of
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the best literature
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in the world since the 19th century with
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internationally loved novels like the
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great gatsby to kill a mockingbird and
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the adventures of huckleberry finn
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while mexican literature isn’t as famous
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on the world stage as american
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literature
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is it is prolific in the
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spanish-speaking world some of the most
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famous works to come out of mexico
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include el berinto
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um if i completely butchered the
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spanish novel names please forgive me my
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spanish
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is improving hopefully but it’s still
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pretty pretty terrible if you want to
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send me some hate in the comments i
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don’t mind
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hopefully in the future i can improve
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sports like every country america loves
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sports but unlike
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most countries football is not very
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popular in the united states
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unless their women’s national team wins
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the world
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the most popular sports in america are
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basketball hockey baseball and of course
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american football the seasons for these
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sports cover the whole year so no matter
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what time of the year
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it is there’s always going to be some
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kind of sport being played in people at
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their favorite bars to watch it
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actually one of the biggest nights of
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the year for americans is the super bowl
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and this year
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alone almost 100 million tvs were tuned
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in
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to watch mexico also has a variety of
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sports from bullfighting which was
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brought over by the spanish the
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mesoamerican ball game which has been
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played since the height of the aztecs
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then there’s boxing lucha libre and of
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course the most popular sport by far
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football mexicans are some of the most
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enthusiastic football fans
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in the world at the world cup in 2018
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more than 8 million tvs were tuned
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in at 8 00 am to watch mexico play
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germany
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and win this is what the celebration
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looked like
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[Applause]
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clothing america is one of the leading
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countries in the world of fashion design
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aside from business attire americans
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tend to dress informally they are
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largely a jeans and t-shirt people
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though they do also love their
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sweatpants in the us it’s not uncommon
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to see someone wearing sweatpants or
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even pajamas in
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public places like supermarkets and gas
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stations as americans like to be
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comfortable when they go about
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their chores mexicans overall have a
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very similar style to americans because
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jeans and t-shirts are just as popular
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and casual dress is the norm in mexico
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however mexican
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fashion defers in many areas as many
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people like to dress in traditional
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clothing or incorporate traditional
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styles into modern fashion
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they use a lot of bright colors
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embroidery and classic mexican dresses
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in their fashion that’s pretty much it
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for today you legend
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let me know what you thought about these
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differences in the comment section down
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or
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on let me know
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that’s it thank you so much have a great
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day stay safe stay healthy
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and i’ll see you next time
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