2. Cuban People
• Cubans are the inhabitants of Cuba. Cuba is a
multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different
ethnic and national backgrounds.
• As a result some Cubans do not treat their
nationality as an ethnicity comprising the
``Cuban people”.
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4. Ancestry
The majority of the ancestry of White Cubans comes
from Spain. During the 18th, 19th, and early part of the
20th century especially, large waves of Canary
Islanders, Galicians, Asturians and Catalans emigrated
from Spain to Cuba .
Other nationalities are English, Scots, Russians, poles,
Portuguese, Romanians, Italians, Greeks, French,
German and Irish. There is a small remnant of a Jewish
community.
The slave trade brought Africans to Cuba during its
early history, between 1842 and 1873, 221,000 African
slaves entered cuba.
5. Demographics
The population of Cuba(2012) was 11, 163,934
inhabitants, including:
Men-5,597,233
Women-5,580,510
The Chinese population in Cuba is descended mostly
from indentured laborers who arrived in the 19th
century to build railroads and work in mines. After the
Industrial Revolution, many of these laborers stayed in
Cuba because they could not afford return passage to
china.
6. Culture and Traditions
The culture of Cuba reflects the island’s influences
from various cultures, primarily European(Spanish)
and African.
During the period of the Republic(1901-1959) Cuban
culture was also influenced by USA. This was evident
in music, sports, architecture, finances, among others.
7. Language
The Spanish language is spoken by virtually all Cubans
on the island itself. Cuban Spanish is characterised by
the reduction of several consonants, a feature that it
shares with other dialects of Caribbean Spanish as well
as the Canary Islands.
Many Cuban-Americans, while remaining fluent in
Spanish, use American English as one of their daily
languages.
8. Music of Cuba
The music of Cuba, including the instruments and the
dances, is mostly of European and African origin.
One of the main rhythmic fusions in Cuban music is
the ‘‘Son’’. other typical Cubans forms are the bolero,
the rumba, the mambo, the cha-cha-cha.
Cuban hip-hop is one of the latest genres of music to
be embraced not only by the country’s youth but also
by the government.
Cuban music has been immensely popular and
influential in other countries.
9. Religion
Cuba is primarily Christian country.
Another large religion in Cuba is Santeria. Santeria is a
blend of Catholicism and traditional Yoruba religions.
Marriage
• Still with a more developed educational system women are
becoming more independent, studying and working better
jobs, that since 1994 most people are now getting married
around the ages of 30-35.
10. Housing
Some Cubans own the homes they live in.
They also live in palm huts and apartment.
Women and dance
A dance style recently emerged, which was involved fast
and suggestive shaking of the women’s lower torso section.
with moves such as the despelote (all over the place) and
tembleque (shake-shudder).
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12. Cuban cuisine
The most popular foods are black beans, rice and
meat.
Rice and beans are a culinary element found
throughout Cuba, although it varies by region.
Arroz con pollo (rice with chicken) and Boliche (is a
beef roast, stuffed with chorizo sausage and hard
boiled eggs).
Coffee is of high quality and grown mainly for export.
14. Fiedel Caestro is a Cuban communist revolutionary and
politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to
1976 and President from 1976 to 2008.
15. Problems faced by Cubans
A lack of fuel for agricultural machinery meant that
crops had to be harvested manually (by people),
drastically decreasing Cuba’s food production
capabilities.
These problems have improved a little in recent years,
but shortages are still common.
To supplement their rations, Cubans resort to the
black market.
