The correct answer to this question is that they both adapted parts of other culturers (or religions) into their own. Candomble is a syncretic religion from Brazil and they developed their religion from the contact of other religions that each people had before.
This example illustrates the foot-in-the-door technique.
This refers to the fact that if you manage to convince somebody to do a small favor for you, they will be more likely to help you with something more engaging and important as well. As you can see here, Maria helped Nat with one lesson, but then she was more willing to help him with three.
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When the economy was good people were just saving the coins and not spending. Now that the economy is worse, there should be more coins circulating.
It also depends were you are. While the quarters circulate in the entire country, the area around the state gets more of them than any other part of the country. The first 13 states were (mainly) in the north east, so that is where they have been the most common. They are now starting to move south - they've already done Tennessee and Louisianan is this year.
In the coming years they will move west and the coins will become more rare here in the east.
