Thursday, December 6, 2012

CUBA CULTURE

CUBA CULTURE IS WHERE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS LANDED ONTHE ISLAND IN 1492  AND NAMED IT JUANA.  THE AREA IS 48,800 SQUARE MILES. WITH 1/3 OF THE ISLAND AS MOUNTAINOUS.  ABOUT 1/3 OF THE ISLANDS ARE MOUNTAINOUS.  ABOUT 1/3 OF THE ISLANDS THE ISLANDS ARE MOUNTAINOUS.  BETWEEN THESE MOUNTAIN SYSTEYMS.IS A LARGE PLAIN IN THE WESTERN PROVINCE.  THE BRITISH ASSIGNED THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE ISLAND TO MILITARY OPERATIONS.

CUBA HAS MOSTLY EUROPEANS AND AFRICANS., ANGLOS, AND CHINESE .  MOST ALL SPEAK SPANISH .  AS MOST COUNTRIES THEY HAVE HAD STRUGGLES.  AARAWAK AND COLUMBIAN FOLKS. WHEN SPAIN CAME HERE THEY ENSLAVED SOME INDIGENOUS FOLKS TO HELP WITH PROJECTS. THE INDIGENOUS FOLKS WERE LARGELY ABANDONED. THE FOLKS WERE BORN IN SPAIN. MANY LEFT AND OTHERS CAME FROM EUROPE AND AFRICA.

THE BRITISH OCCUPIED HAVANA IN 1952 AND AFRICAN SLAVES WERE ALMOST MOST OF THE POPULATION. BY 1868 THE EASTERN PLANTERS DECLARED WAR ON SPAIN. AND CALLED FOR COMPLETE FREEDOM AND THEY ENDED SLAVERYFTER THEIR REVOLUTION IN 1957, THEY BECAME TRUELY INDEPENDENT.  THEIR PRECOLUMBIAN  CULTURE HAD 112,000 ARAWAK FOLKS.   WHEN SPAIN CAME HERE THEY ENSLAVED SOME INDIGENOUS FOLKS TO HELP WITH THEIR DTHEIR PROJECTS.  THE INDIGENOUS FOLKS WERE ABANDONED.  FOLKS FROM SPAIN AND AFRICA WERE LEFT.

THE BRITISH OCCUPIED SAVANNAH IN 1952  AND AFRICAN SLAVES WERE MOST OF THE POPULATION.  BY 1868 THE EASTERN DECLARED WAR ON SPAIN CALLED FOR COMPLETE FREEDOM AND THEY ENDED SLAVERY.  BY 1906 CUBANS PROTESTED AGAINST THE THE US INTERVENTION.     THERE HAVE BEEN MANY COUNTRIES WHO WANTED TO TAKE OVER CUBA.  CUBANS NOW REJECT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.  SOME WEALTHY CUBANS FLED TO MIAMI.  CUBANS ARE NOW ACCUSTOMED TO BEING IN PRIVATE SPACE.  THEY ARE IN COSE CONTACT.  THIS IS GOOD SINCE HOUSING IS NOT ABUNDANT FOR CUBANS.  THEIR NORMAL DIET IN CUBA IS RICE, BEANS,  WITHPLANTAINS, TUBERS AND VEGETABLES.  THEY ALSO EAT PORK AND CHICKEN.  HISTORICALLY ABOUTR 1/2 OF THEIR INTAKE HAS BEEN IMPORTED  SINCE THEY HAVE HAD LITTLE TRADING NETWORK.  THEY  TYPICALLY EAT SWEETS.

BY 1959 FIDEL CASTRO ESTABLISHED A COMMUNIST PARTY THAT HAS EXISTED THERE EVER SINCE.

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