Spanish Class Democracy Topic

I have found so far this year that several topics in my classes have correlated. For instance: the idea of Democracy in America. This seems to be a topic we will be working with throughout this semester in AmCon, but now I have even had it be the discussion for many days in my Spanish class. It was interesting because we are trying to come up with important information that could be put onto an atlas about the United States. Besides New York, big companies (mostly McDonalds) and diversity, another major piece to the United States, according to our class is Democracy. It may have been due to the fact we were trying to say things using the extremely little spanish dictionary we know or something more. In our Spanish Atlas, in the section on the United States there was a very small portion that even mentioned democracy. Is democracy something we value as Americans and other countries barely notice? Or do we (Americans) just hold democracy on an extremely high pedestal?