Help! my first mac! and I can't get past the Welcome menu window... I try to select "united states" and want to continue but nothing happens. Any idea why?

help! my first mac! and I can't get past the Welcome menu window... I try to select "united states" and want to continue but nothing happens. Any idea why?

Restart the Mac, and start over, it very well could be frozen. This is not the way you would like to start out your Mac experience!

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