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Here are a few things:

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Depending on the study you look at, salvadoreans are the fourth most happy country of the world, or the 12th, tied with USA and Finland (and in the "Level of subjective well-being)

University of Michigan World Values Survey

http://thehappinessshow.com/OtherWaysOfBecomingHap...

http://americangenes.blogspot.com/

Historia: Oscar Torre: from civil war to cinema marquee:

Mexico's entry for the Oscar for Foreign Film: Innocent Voices, is based on the autobiographical story that salvadorian Oscar Orlando Torres passed to director Luis Mandoki during the shooting of a commercial. Innocent Voices is produced by Lawrence Bender, who also produced Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting and Kill Bill. The film is about the childhood of Oscar Torres in the salvadorean civil war. Oscar Torres is an actor that has appeared in ER, CSI:Miami and Any Day Now.

One of the foremost poets, Roque Dalton is related to singer Linda Rondstadt. Roque Dalton died in the Civil War.

In the book "The Little Prince", the rose of the history is salvadorean Consuelo Suncín, wife of Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Before that, Consuelo Suncín was married to guatemalan writer Enrique Gómez Carrillo, a friend of Oscar Wilde

In the book and movie "A Beautiful Mind" (the movie was with Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly), the wife of the mathematician John Nash is salvadorean Alicia Lardé. Jennifer Connelly won an Oscar for her role as Alicia. In the book by Sylvia Nash she is described as an "El Salvadorean princess with a sense of noblesse oblige"

At the Academy Awards

Salvadorean artist Simón Varela from Quezaltepeque created some of the characters (like Bruce, the shark) in the animated movie Finding Nemo by Pixar/Disney.

You can see his art in the book: The Art of Finding Nemo

with drawings from Ralph Eggleston and Simón Varela

Pizza Hut's new lettering style was developed by british-salvadorean firm Ideas Frescas, the firm of our beach volleyball champ Frida Larios

http://www.elsalvador.com/mujeres/2004/09/entrevis...

Mia Lehrer (Miriam Guttfreund) is the landscaping designer for the Great Wall of China, apart from designing houses and gardens for people in the entertainment business, like Dustin Hoffman, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lee Ritenour, Joel Silver and Nancy Meyers. In her beginnings, she worked with claimed mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, who is designing the MultiPlaza mall in El Salvador.

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El Salvador's airline, TACA (originally from Honduras), was at one time the largest airline company of the world, under its founder, Lowell Yerex - until PanAm came. The history of Yerex: Yerex of TACA, a Kiwi Conquistador recounts how he lost an eye flying for a revolution, among other adventures.

Supermodel Christy Turlington's mother is from Cojutepeque, El Salvador.

That is why the proceeds of her calendar go to the American Foundation for El Salvador.

http://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/explo...

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, who discovered San Diego, California in the United States, finished the construction of his ships in Acajutla, El Salvador. That is why one of its ships was called "San Salvador"

Dr. Robert J. Carbonell was Vice-Chairman of RJR Nabisco and part of the investment group that bought Del Monte, in the turbulent era when Philip Morris bought Nabisco, an era which was documented in the best seller "Barbarians at the Gate"

http://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/2003/04/03/nego...

The first Toyota distributor in America (in fact, the second distributor in the World, after Taiwan) was DIDEA of El Salvador. The first Toyota in the American continent, a Land Cruiser, still runs.

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Appropiately, the last Volkswagen Beetle ever that was build, in México, was purchased by a salvadorean that colects classic cars.

At OJ Simpson's trial, an important witness for the defense was the neighbor's salvadorean maid, Rosa López

Egit (Histadrut) en 1988 como Mejor Manuscrito sobre el Holocausto.

Movies like "Schindler's List" and "Varian's War" recount stories of courageous people that saved jewish lives from the concentration camps. George Mantello (Mandl), who worked at El Salvador's consulate was such a man, like Schindler and Varian, as recounted by the book "The Man who stopped the trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour". This was the greatest single rescue effort during the Holocoust, resulting in the saving of 14,000 peoples lives who were given salvadorean citizenship papers. George Mantello convinced our General Consul, Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos to give these life saving citizenship papers. The book, writen by David Kranzler and with a preface

1. We are the only country in the world named after God

2. We are the most densely nominated country in the americas

3. We have the most modernized/industrialized nation in centro america

4. We have gone to 2 world cups, in our region only the US, Mexico, Honduras and Costa Rica have gone.

5. Most pueblos/cities have fiestas patronales, huge carnival things where they celebrate the town's patron saint

6. Salvadorenas are cute!

7. Our accent is unique funny and awesome

8. Our native indians are the Mayans, Pipils, and the Lenca

9. We have the biggest stadium in central america and the carribean

10. Despite crime problems, the people are humble and nice

11. In 8,123 square miles we have 5 volcanoes, and hundreds of lakes

12. Cumbia is our music, marimba is traditional

13. Mexico invaded in the 1820's, we fought them and beat them.

14. Our nicknames are Guanacos, Cuscatlecos, and Cipotes

15. Our cursewords include Puuta, verga, and cerote

16. We say puchica when we are mad, like damn!

17. Pupusas, Salvadorean style Tortillas, and Pasteles are unique in our cusine

18. We have beautiful beaches with world famous surf

19. In San Miguel we eat Garrobos, a iguana-like lizard

20. In Chalatenango we have white people, descended from Germans, French, English, or Italians like myself

21. We were the last Latino Country to pull out of Iraq

22. Our Country is the only Latin American country without a significant African-Hispanic (black) population

oohhh and most importantly

23. We are simply the best!

These will Make you laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWg1Sma3hS4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQNaaGqTNBQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOzJKGmKSCo

Positivo - Futbol Equipo, las cuidades, la comida, el dinero, las bicycletas, los colegios, y mucho mas.

Positiv - Socer team, socer, citys, food, muney, bicycles, schools, y more.

Negativo - La Mara ( Salvatrucha 13 ), dinero

Negativ - Gang calld La Mara ( Salvatrucha 13 ), muney

El musicon y el humo de los buses not to mention all the interesting artwork/stickers that cover them :)

Nowhere else could you find a woman's name across a windshield next to a picture of Jesus. :)

Las señoras del pan:

"El paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnn!"

Over 90 percent of the population is Mestizo or 'mixed' due to Spanish colonization

PUPUSAS....!!! the best food ever!!!!!

El Salvador is cool for everything it has...and the lovely people who lives there!!!!

Los 23 Volcanes !!!! e incluso hay volcanes activos, eso atrae la atencion de mucha gente (pienso yo). para ser un pais pequeño pienso que tiene muchos volcanes

of course !PUPUSAS!

We were the first one to make a tortilla and stuff in side of it

"Tisk" Tisk"

you forgot :(

how could you?

it stands out along time ago and it still stands :)

wooo ima get my self a Pupusa ;)

getting hungry over here :)

and its VERY special :) (to me)

OH and like the volcanoes we have alot of volcanoes

and its all in a small country:)

(and maybe other people)

i hope i helped

:)

PUPUSAS and lovely people!!! I love El Salvador.....!!!

pupusas y mamones!! cuando estan en temporadas!!