American Culture Influence On Jorge Rodriguez

C. Victor Garcia, Marco’s grandfather, who was also an immigrant from Cuba shaped his interest in politics since he was a little kid.

Cuban grew up in the middle-class with a father supporting his family from the income of working at a car shop. Most people tend to think successful people often have successful family roots, but not Cuban. His first influence to become the business man he is today was from his grandfather. In order to support his family, Cuban’s grandfather was selling merchandise out of an old truck. Although his grandfather was showing what it was like to be an entrepreneur, the income he was making was nothing to brag about.

Born near Biran, Cuba on August 13th, 1926, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was the third child in his family out of six children. Castro grew up in an extremely wealthy environment, as his father was from Spain, and made much of his money off a sugar plantation that he owned. Growing up, Fidel was talented intellectually and attended El Colegio de Belen. However, as a young man, he was much more interested in sports than school. In high school, he was one of the pitchers for the baseball team. Fidel’s last name was changed from Ruz to Castro after being formally acknowledged by his father at age 17. Castro enrolled in law school at the University of Havana shortly after graduating from El Colegio de Belen in 1945. At the university, he became involved in politics and

Unlike other immigrants America's policy towards cuban immigration is a “wet foot, dry foot” policy meaning that those who are rescued in the water are transported back to Cuba unless they seek asylum. While those who make it to the US are not pushed away, and after a year have the option to apply for permanent residence. During the 1960’s United States and Cuba made a deal with cuba allowing for “freedom flights” for those wanting to resettle in America(Migration Policy Institute), this occurred just after Eyre's journey to the US. This lead to an unique view on the American dream for Cuabns  immigrants. Their main goal when leaving cuba is not the life they can achieve once in the US, but the act of safely getting to the US. However before the revolution people like Eire mentioned they were constantly bombarded with a vision of America as a sparkly fairy tale with sophisticated inventions that they didn't have. Once they arrived in the US they brought a unique culture of Cuban and merged American technologies. Today Cuabns have brought major aspects of cuban lifestyle to Florida, where many reside  in Little Havana , an area devoted to a safe, free  cuban

that she had to make were the hardest. Some of the things that she had to do affected the

Following the establishment of Fidel Castro’s Marxist-Leninist government on January 1, 1959, a mass influx of Cubans fled the country and made their way to the United States. Miami, Florida was the evident choice for many of those fleeing Cubans because it had a small, yet already-established population of Cubans that had resided there as political exiles of previous regimes, had fled during the wars for Cuban independence, or had escaped economic troubles (Levine & Asis, 3). Trying to settle in a new country with different customs, language, and laws is the similar challenge presented to new immigrants, and these Cubans were not the exception. The exceptional element of the Cuban immigrant experience is that within almost one generation, they were able to acquire economic stability and expand their political power in Miami (Grenier & Perez, 55). How were they able to achieve this sort of “success”? The answer lies beyond “Cuban exceptionalism” and the hard work of the immigrant group.

Castro was invited to visit the United States by the American Society of Newspaper Editors as stated before, in April 1959. Thomas E. Ruggiero the author of “When We Finish Our Job, We Will Cut Off Our Beards”: New York Times Coverage of Fidel Castro’s 1959 U.S. Visit” writes, “Between April 15h and 26th, 1959, Castro and a delegation of more than fifty industrial and international representatives visited the United States as guest” (Ruggiero Pg. 76). Castro’s visit was seen as a mere way to try and win over the American public and for the most part it worked. Many hadn’t heard much about this new leader and were egger to meet the new, young, and vibrant leader of Cuba.

After 2 years of prison Fidel and Raúl Castro both were released in 1955 with an amnesty deal with the Batista government(“Fidel”). Once they got out of jail they went to Mexico to further plan the revolution(“Fidel”). December 2nd Fidel and Raúl Castro returned to Cuba to continue the revolution on Cuban ground. From Mexico they brought weapons to fight Batista(“Fidel”).

She did not communicate with her family well, nor did she trust them. She ate, slept, and went to school.

Jorge still has family living in Mexico and maintains that being apart from them is what he misses most about his home country. Jorge maintains strong cultural connections to his home country and family. The transition into the American lifestyle for Jorge was “very, difficult, you don’t understand anything and you feel alone.” Something that may have contributed to his slow transition process was his inability to speak English at the time of migration. He learned English through his family and new job and later through a home course that he purchased. When asked if he would ever want to return to his birth country, Jorge responded, “I already have. Once I got my citizenship, that’s the first thing I did, but I’m planning on staying here. I just go visit.”

The US tightens its longstanding embargo on Cuba during 1992, extending restrictions on travel and trade with the Cuban Democracy Act. Fearing a collapse, Castro slowly begins to deregulate Cuba's economy, moving to allow limited individual private enterprise A boat rescue of a Cuban child, Elian Gonzalez, sparks a diplomatic row with the US. The six-year-old boy was picked up off the Florida coast after he and his mother attempted to flee Cuba. After a protracted court battle, he was

The Environment: I felt as though I was in the 1950’s as cherry red Thunderbirds and baby blue Chrysler's stormed by. (In Cuba the cars always have the right of way.) I remember street vendors, women, in big and colorful dresses asking if you wanted to take a picture with them (expecting 1 CUP or $1). I remember the tall 1940’s and 50’s era colorful buildings along the stone and wood streets. Cuba is something that simply has to be

There were several key events that led to Castro’s rise as a powerful leader and shaped him into the man who successfully led the Cuban revolution. First of all, although he benefited from a decent education and was exposed to the upper echelon of society at times, he also played with and grew up around the children of the migrant workers of the farm. He maintains that this conservative upbringing

She struggled. Her English classes were quite the challenge for her, she didn’t interpret the reading assignments the same way

The United States experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era, the first part of the