What is the reason hawaii and alaska are not considered part of the contiguous united states?

Contiguous means 'sharing a common border; touching' and so Hawaii and Alaska are not considered contiguous because they are not a part of the continental USA. Hawaii is an island and Alaska is connected to Canada- neither actually touch any part of the U.S..

Several different things make up a culture like, how the people worship, their form of government, geography, and trade. religion is one of the most important things to a culture, it defines peoples life. their different beliefs form into festivities and events that merge with their culture. people that practice hinduism see cows as gods, so no doubt they would celebrate cows, and these celebrations would definitely merge with their culture. those that are buddhist live life trying to reach a certain level of peace, so no doubt would they change things in their life in order to correspond with their religion.