CISV Detroit | building global friendship in the Motor City



Here are some fun facts about Michigan and the Detroit area to share with your delegates. We look forward to meeting you soon!

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|The name of our country |United States of America |

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|Our CISV chapter |Detroit |

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|Airport |Detroit Metro -- DWI |

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|Our national language |English, though the United States is a country full of immigrants and many people speak different |

| |languages at home. The most common second language is Spanish. |

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|Our state |Michigan, the Great Lakes State, is touched by four of the five Great Lakes. |

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|Detroit metro area’s population |About 3.9 million |

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|Our main religion(s) |Christianity, Judaism, Islam |

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|Typical day- and night-time temperatures |Detroit has a humid continental climate with hot summers and no dry season. Quoting from |

|(year-round), and a description of our seasons |: |

| |The area within 25 miles of the airport is covered by grasslands (37%), croplands (33%), built-up |

| |areas(20%), forests (6%), and lakes and rivers (2%) |

| |Over the course of a year, the temperature typically varies from 15°F to 84°F and is rarely |

| |below 2°F or above 91°F |

| |The warm season lasts from May 27 to September 19 with an average daily high temperature above73°F. |

| |The hottest day of the year is July 25, with an average high of 84°F and low of 63°F |

| |The length of the day varies significantly over the course of the year. The shortest day is December|

| |21 with 9:06 hours of daylight; the longest day is June 20 with 15:17 hours of daylight |

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|Special holidays that will occur when we host your |Our country’s birthday is the Fourth of July, which is celebrated with parades, fireworks, music |

|delegation |festivals and barbeques. |

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|Typical food |Metro Detroiters eat food inspired by the cuisines of every part of the world. Some local |

| |specialties include the Coney Dog, which is a sausage covered with chili, onions and mustard and |

| |eaten on a bun; cherries, which are grown in the northern part of our state; whitefish from the |

| |Great Lakes; and Sander’s chocolate sauce. |

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|Meal habits (how many each day, times of day, |We typically eat three meals a day: |

|biggest meal of the day, etc. |Breakfast is the morning meal, which might include some combination of cereal, fruit, eggs, |

| |pancakes, waffles, bread, muffin, cheeses |

| |Lunch is the mid-day meal, which might include a sandwich, soup and fruit or possibly some leftovers|

| |from dinner the night before |

| |Dinner is the evening meal, the largest meal of the day. It might include a meat, a vegetable, a |

| |starch like potatoes or rice and possibly dessert. |

| |Favorite snacks between meals include smoothies (drinks made from smashed fruit and yogurt), apples |

| |with peanut butter, crackers and cheese |

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|Typical day for most people |During the summer, many young people go to camps during the day while their parents work. Daytime |

| |summer camps often take place outdoors and can be focused on sports or other non-academic |

| |activities. Sometimes, if a young person has a parent or other adult at home, the young person will |

| |spend summer days going to a community pool or hanging out with friends. During Interchange hosting,|

| |the only camp that our delegates typically attend is the Interchange Minicamp. |

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|Some of our special customs |In the summer, we have lots of outdoor street fairs and festivals. We like to meet our neighbors in |

| |parks to watch movies, listen to music, share picnic foods and talk. Around Detroit, there are many |

| |lakes and streams. So we like to take advantage of these things by spending a lot of time around the|

| |water – kayaking, swimming, fishing and playing other summertime sports such as baseball and |

| |volleyball. |

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|Money: |We buy things with dollars. Credit cards also are accepted. Banks have Automatic Teller Machines |

| |where people can use ATM cards from other countries to withdraw dollars. |

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|Money: how much things cost |small bottle or can of Coke |

| |$1.25 |

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| |hamburger |

| |$2.50 |

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| |ice cream |

| |$1 |

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| |chocolate bar |

| |$.50 |

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| |small souvenir – baseball cap without a team logo |

| |$7 |

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|Famous artists, musicians or entertainers, and why |Detroit is famous for its musicians! Some of them include rapper Eminem, soul singer Aretha |

|they are famous |Franklin, rapper Kid Rock, singer Madonna, rocker Bob Seger, film director Francis Ford Coppola, |

| |documentary-maker Michael Moore, and many Motown singers such as Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder and |

| |Smokey Robinson. Techno music got its start in Detroit. We also have a lot of hip hop artists. Other|

| |famous people from our area include Google co-founder Larry Page and the late civil rights icon Rosa|

| |Parks. Because Detroit is a relatively low-cost place to live, many artists currently make Detroit |

| |their home. |

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|Famous sports team(s) |Detroit loves sports! We have four main professional teams: the Tigers (baseball -- played during |

| |the summer), the Pistons (basketball), the Lions (football) and the Redwings (hockey). |

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|Well-known vegetation (plants) |Although automobile manufacturing is the largest industry in Michigan, the second-largest industry |

| |is either agriculture or outdoor-related tourism. Michigan has more publicly owned forests than any |

| |other state east of the Mississippi River. The Great Lakes have thousands of miles of beautiful |

| |shoreline known as our nation’s Third Coast, (the other two coasts are the Atlantic and Pacific |

| |coasts). Michigan also has thousands of smaller lakes and many beautiful rivers. Hunting and fishing|

| |are important parts of the economy, as well ask hiking in the summer and skiing in the winter. The |

| |county north of the city of Detroit where many of our chapter members live – Oakland County – has |

| |about 300 lakes. Michigan’s most famous crop is the cherry, though we also grow many other fruits |

| |and vegetables. |

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|Well-known fauna (animals) |Michigan’s state animal is the wolverine, though we haven’t seen many of them around here lately. |

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|Typical houses in our region |We usually live in single-family homes made of wood or brick. |

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|Types of transportation |It is difficult to get around our region without a car. Although we have a public bus system, it is |

| |not extensive. In the summer, many young people get around on their bicycles. Some walk to nearby |

| |shopping streets, community centers, parks or friends’ houses. |

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|General information about our society, government, |Detroit is a city with a lot of problems but also a lot of energy and entrepreneurial spirit. Many |

|laws, etc. |people see Detroit as a great place to experiment and imagine what cities will be like in the |

| |future. Although the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy in 2013, this will not affect our |

| |Interchange at all. Bankruptcy is a move that will play out in our courts, eventually allowing the |

| |city to reduce the amount of money it pays its creditors. The bankruptcy of our region’s largest |

| |employer, General Motors, was promoted by President Obama and eventually was very successful a few |

| |years ago. We hope that the bankruptcy of the city of Detroit also will work out mostly for good, |

| |though it is certain that some people will be hurt when the city does not pay them all that it owes.|

| |While the city of Detroit is the center of our region, most of the people who say they are from |

| |Detroit (and most of our chapter members) actually live outside of the city’s boundaries. |

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|Our time zone |Eastern Standard Time |

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