AMERICAN CULTURE

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Van Hien UniversityThe Faculty of Foreign Languages & Civilizations

What is California?The NorthBasicRed woodsDeath valleyGold rushSan FranciscoBasicGolden Gate SightseeingHippie1960s Berkely protestsEarthquakeWine ValleySilicon ValleyThe South BasicBerverly HillHollywood Vietnamese CommunityHawaiiHistoryEconomicLanguage

The name "California" derives from a 16th Century romance novel written by a Spanish author named Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo.The novel was described an island, very close to the Garden of Eden, full of gold, which was ruled by strong and beautiful black women.

CALIFORNIA

The 3rd largest state in the United States. 2015 resident population: 39,144,81858 counties: the Sounth: 10 conties and the North : 48. Capital: SacramentoCalifornia's climate varies widely, from arid to subarctic, depending on latitude, elevation

Land area: 155,959 sq mi. (403,934 sq km)

Bordered by the otherU.S. states ofOregonto the north,Nevadato the east, andArizonato the southeast, with theMexican state ofBaja California to the south.

ThePacific Ocean is on the state'swestern coastline.

California's economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services

45 percent of the state's total surface area is covered by forests

State symbols:

Flower : golden poppy .

Tree : California redwoods.

Bird : California valley quail.

Animal : California grizzly bear. Fish : California golden trout.

Colors : blue and gold.

Song : I Love You, California (1951).

California's climate varies from widely from desert to alpine depending on latitude, elevation and how close the area is to the coast.

The average annual temperature of 59.4FNorthwest California has rainy cool winters and dry summers.The southeastern regions have a hot arid climate.

Jeffersons population : 949,409

Consisting of fourteen counties: Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Plumas, Siskiyou, Shasta, Tehama, and Trinity.

North Californias population : 3,820,438

Consisting of thirteen counties: Amador, El Dorado, Marin, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sierra, Solano, Sonoma, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba.

Silicon Valleys population: 6,828,617consisting of eight counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Monterey.[19]

Central Californias population: 4,232,419

Consisting of the fourteen counties north of Los Angeles and south of Sacramento: Alpine, Calaveras, Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Mono, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare and Tuolumne.

West Californias population: 11,563,717

Consisting of four counties: Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles and Ventura.South Californias population: 10,809,997Consisting of five counties:Imperial,Orange,Riverside,San BernardinoandSan Diego.

CALIFORNIA

Northern California, often abbreviated NorCalThe northern is 48 counties

Southern California is 10 counties The Southern main population centers include the San Francisco Bay Area, the Greater Sacramento area, and the Metropolitan Fresno area

Southern California includes the heavily built-up urban area stretching along the Pacific coast from Ventura, through the Greater Los Angeles Area and the Inland Empire, and down to Greater San Diego.Southern California's economy is diverse and one of the largest in the United StatesSouthern California is famous for tourism and HollywoodNative Americans arrived in northern California at least as early as 8,000 to 5,000 BC.Northern California's largestmetropolitan area is theSan Francisco Bay Areawhich includes the cities ofSan Francisco,San Jose,Oakland, and their manysuburbs.The economic is noted for being the de facto world leader in industries such as high technology, clean power, biomedical, government, and finance

Northern California has warm or mild to cold climate, in which the Sierra gets snow in the late fall through winter and occasionally into spring. Summers are warm and dry while winters are cool and usually wet

TheNorthern California coastal forestsare atemperate coniferous forestsecoregionof coastalNorthern CaliforniaThe ecoregion covers 13,300 square kilometres

Since the events of the California Gold Rush, northern California has been a leader on the world's economic, scientific, and cultural stages. The 2010 U.S. Census revealed that northern California grew at a faster rate than Southern California in the 2000s

The population is 14,573,946

Northern California's largest metropolitan area is the San Francisco Bay Area which includes the cities of San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, and their many suburbs.

The region's Pacific Ocean coast stretches from San Francisco Bay northwards to Humboldt Bay and on to the border of Oregon. The coastline is often inaccessible, and includes rocky cliffs and hills, streams and tide pools

The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) are old-growth temperate rainforests located in the United States, along the coast of northern California

The old-growthredwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres (8,100km2) of the California coast.

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The Redwood National and state park has three tallest tree in the world.

The lowest spot in the US

Death Valleyis adesertvalleylocated inEastern California

Death Valley is the largest national park in the United States.The highest recorded temperature in Death Valley is 134F, measured in July, 1913Dozens of scenes from Star Wars have been filmed in Death Valley

The Death Valley National Park is home to more than 400 birds species, 57 mammal species, 37 species of reptiles, and several other species of fish and amphibians. The most known recreational activities at the park include mountain biking, hiking, camping and horseback riding

The area is also famous as home to many ghost towns that dating back to the 17th century.

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The California Gold Rush (18481855) was a period in American historyThe Gold Rush also attracted some tens of thousands fromLatin America,Europe,Australia, andAsia. More than 300,000 gold-seekers came to California.In 1849, astate constitution, governorship, and legislature were established, and as part of theCompromise of 1850, California officially became aUS state.

The California Gold Rush was a particularly violent period for the new settlers of the Wild West.From 1849 until 1890 the Indigenous population of California had fallen below 20,000, primarily because of these killings.

The name "forty-niner" was derived from the year 1849.

Forty-niners came from Latin America, particularly from the Mexican mining districts nearSonora and Chile.

Gold-seekers and merchants from Asia, primarily from China.It is estimated that approximately 90,000 people arrived in California in 1849

Forty-niners were able to retrieve loose gold flakes and nuggets with their hands, or simply "pan" for gold in rivers and streams.

Modern estimates by the U.S. Geological Survey are that some 12 million ounces[93] (370 t) of gold were removed in the first five years of the Gold RushSluice for separation of gold from dirt with water

Hydraulic mining was used on ancient gold-bearing gravel beds on hillsides and bluffs in the goldfields.

By the mid-1880s, it is estimated that 11 million ounces (340t) of gold

The loosened gravel and gold would then pass over sluices, with the gold settling to the bottom where it was collected.

The Gold Rush propelled California from a sleepy, little-known backwater to a center of the global imagination and the destination of hundreds of thousands of people. In the midst of the Gold Rush, towns and cities were chartered, a state constitutional convention was convened, a state constitution written, elections held, and representatives sent to Washington, D.C. to negotiate the admission of California as a state.The Panama Railway, spanning the Isthmus of Panama, was finished in 1855.

The California Gold Rush lead the population of San Francisco increase from 200 to 50.000

San Francisco (Spanish forSaint Francis) was founded on June 29, 1776

San Francisco is the cultural, commercial, and financial center ofNorthern Californiaand the onlyconsolidated city-countyinCalifornia.

San Francisco is the smallest county in California state.. It has a density of about 18,451 people per square mile (7,124 people per km2)The population in 2015 was 864,816 San Francisco has a diversifiedservice economyMore than 18million visitors arrived in San Francisco in 2014, injecting US$10.67billion into the economy.

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km), three-mile-long (4.8 km) channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

DesignSuspension, truss arch & truss causewaysMaterialSteelTotal length8,981 ft (2,737.4 m),[2] about 1.7 mi (2.7 km)Width90 ft (27.4 m)Height746 ft (227.4 m)Longest span4,200 ft (1,280.2 m)[3]Clearance above 14 ft (4.3 m) at toll gates, Trucks cannot passClearance below 220 ft (67.1 m) at TideConstruction begin January 5, 1933Construction end April 19, 1937OpenedMay 27, 1937; 78 years ago

Venture into the city for a glimpse at San Franciscos famously steep hillsExperience Alcatraz from the water on a bay cruise around the island

The famous trolleyHippie Colored Houses on Haight Street

HIPPIE

A Hippie is a person who was raised under the ideological system that came out of the tumultuous 1960's in North America and western Europe. Hippies advocated nonviolence and love, a popular phrase being Make love, not war, for which they were sometimes called flower children.

1960s Berkeley protests

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m.Severe shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region to the south of the San Francisco Bay Area.The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history and high in the lists of American urban disasters.1906 San Francisco earthquakeAs a result, about 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed.

1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

On October 17, 1989, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area, killing 67 people and causing more than $5 billion in damages. Just prior to the game, at 5:04 p.m., with live cameras on the field, a magnitude 6.9 quake rocked the San Francisco Bay region.The earthquake significantly damaged the transportation system of the Bay Area.The San FranciscoOakland Bay Bridge was also damaged when a span of the top deck collapsed.

The Wine Country is an area of Northern California in the United States known worldwide as a premium wine-growing regionThere are over 400wineries in the area north ofSan Francisco,mostly located in the area's valleys, includingNapa Valley inNapa County, and theSonoma Valley,Alexander Valley,Dry Creek Valley,Bennett Valley, andRussian River ValleyinSonoma County.

The term "Silicon Valley" eventually came to refer to all high tech businesses in the area, and is now generally used as a synecdoche for the American high-technology economic sector.

In 1939, Packard and Hewlett established Hewlett-Packard (HP) in Packard's garage with an initial capital investment of US$538HP is recognized as the symbolic founder of Silicon Valley, although it did not actively investigate

"where business, academic and government interests could come together in a synergistic vision of the future."

Southern California, often abbreviated to SoCal, is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost 10 counties

Southern California contains roughly 60 percent of California's population-22 million

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula," which translated from Spanish, means "The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the river of Porziuncola.The city is divided into over 80 districts and neighborhoodsthe city is divided into the following areas:Downtown Los Angeles,East Los AngelesandNortheast Los Angeles,South Los Angeles, theHarbor Area,Greater Hollywood,Wilshire, theWestside, and the San Fernando and Crescenta Valleys.

Historical affiliations Spanish Empire 15191821 First Mexican Empire 18211823Mexico United Mexican States 18231848 California Republic 1846 United States 1848present

The economy of Los Angeles is driven by international trade, entertainment, , aerospace, technology, petroleum, fashion, apparel, and tourism.

Los Angeles is often billed as the "Creative Capital of the World. There are more artists, writer, filmmakers, actors, dancers and musicians living and working in Los Angeles than any order city at any time in history.

Movies and the performing artsMuseums and galleries

L.A has four of five busines hightways in North America.According to traffic analysis firmINRIX in 2013 (measured in average hours wasted per vehicle for the year) was Los Angeles, California: 64.4 hours;

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood. By 2013, its population had grown to 34,658.

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Nestor Studio, Hollywood's first movie studio, 1912

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VIETNAMESE COMMUNITYThey make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group and have developed distinctive.The population is 1737 433 0.6% population of the U.S.A

South Vietnamese immigration to the United States started after 1975, after the end of the Vietnam War.

Little Saigon is centered in Orange County, California, where over 189,000 Vietnamese Americans reside.The nucleus of Little Saigon has long been Bolsa Avenue

1San Jose, California100,48610.6City with the most Vietnamese Americans in the United States and outside of Vietnam.2Garden Grove, California47,33127.7Part ofLittle SaigoninOrange County, California3Westminster, California36,05840.2Part of Little Saigon in Orange County, California. City with the most Vietnamese Americans per capita.4Houston,Texas34,8381.7Little Saigon in Houston is located inMidtownand growing population inChinatown.5San Diego,California33,1492.5Little Saigon in theCity Heightsneighborhood.

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Hawaii is the 50th and most recent state of the United States of America, receiving statehood on August 21, 1959.TheHawaiian Islandsare located in the North Pacific OceanThe Hawaiian islands were formed by volcanic activity initiated at an underseamagmasourceThere are eight main Hawaiian islands. Population is 1,431,603. Area is 10,931sqmi

Kingdom of HawaiiEuropean arrival

After a series of battles that ended in 1795, all inhabited islands were subjugated under a single ruler, who became known as King Kamehameha the Great.

First human settlement Ancient Hawaii (8001778)The 1778 arrival of British explorer James Cook was the first documented contact by a European explorer with Hawaii.

The earliest habitation of the Hawaiian Islands dates to around 300 CE, probably by Polynesian settlers from the Marquesas Islands.

Kamehameha Kamehameha IIKamehameha IIIKamehameha IV

KamehamehaVLunaliloKalkauaLiliuokalani

The history of Hawaii's economy can be traced through a succession of dominant industries; sandalwood,[133] whaling,[134] sugarcane, pineapple, military, tourism and education.

The agricultural sales were US$370.9 million from diversified agriculture, US$100.6 million from pineapple, and US$64.3 million from sugarcane.

English (General American) and Hawaiian are listed as Hawaii's "official languages" in the state's 1978 constitution.Pidgin is the native language of many native residents and is a second language for many others.After English, other languages popularly spoken in the state areTagalog, Japanese andIlokano.

Tourism is an important part of the Hawaiian economy. In 2003, according to state government data, there were over 6.4 million visitors, with expenditures of over $10 billion, to the Hawaiian Islands

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Now Jim steps in and asserts, that in doing so, they moved through the area now known as Los Angeles. They camped by a river where fertile soil and availability of water for irrigation impressed members of the party. Father Juan Crespi, who accompanied the group, saw the location as having all the requirements for a large settlement. He named the river, El Rio de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula, which means "The River of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula."

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