Overview of Costa Rica's Social and Cultural Characteristics
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ScribdTranslationsOverview of Costa Rica's Social and Cultural Characteristics
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ScribdTranslationsChristopher Martin Nuñez Peña
Social Characteristics
Costa Rica is a nation with high progress.
social. This does not result from policies or
recent investments, but of the
accumulation of well-being achieved at
through almost two centuries of efforts to
deploy a broad social policy in
coverage and innovative in its approaches.
The economy is mostly based on the
tourism and in agriculture, thanks to its great
banana and coffee production. Costa Rica
exports 11,660 trillion dollars
pineapple, coffee, banana, melon, sugar
meats, seafood, and also components
electronics.
CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS
Costa Rica is a mestizo, multiethnic country,
multilingual and multicultural, in which
social communication systems coexist
very diverse ranging from the creole
Limonense uses and customs of
Iberian origin, passing through cultures and
thought processes as disparate as
the Chinese, the indigenous woman or the Mennonite.
POLITICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Costa Rica is governed by the constitution.
politics of November 7, 1949, in the
which establishes a system
presidentialist and a unitary state.