Cubans to Mexicans: Guava to Avocadoes If many Americans heard somebody speaking spanish, plenty would be inclined to believe the speaker is Mexican. Majority of America views both Cubans, Mexicans, and all Hispanics as Mexicans. Both are vastly different in relations of their history, cultures, and foods, yet most of America views them as the same.
Although both Cuba and Mexico have Spaniard influence that is the most they have in relation to each other historically. Not much of Cuba is known before the arrival of the Spaniards in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, upon arrival there were no indigenous peoples on the island. Where in Mexico there plenty of indigenous people from Aztecs, Mayans, to Tzotzil. When the Spaniards arrived in Mexico in 1529 there were natives roaming around everywhere. After the arrival of the Spaniards in Cuba, the island was being used as a slave stop before
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The first country that speaks spanish that a majority of Americans learned was Mexico. The reason being that it appears on almost every full map of the United States just below Texas. So many are imprinted at a young age (accidentally or not) that everyone who speaks spanish is Mexican. That belief is so far from the truth it is almost hurts to comprehend. Both races hate being labeled as anything they are not, yet many Americans make this mistake. Both races hate it so much that they started hating other spanish speaking races. Cubans don’t like Mexicans because they believe that Mexicans are lazy taco vendors, while the Cubans have to go make real jobs that not anyone can do just on a cooking ability. While Mexicans perceive Cubans as getting praised and special treatments from America’s government programs during Castro’s takeover while many were fleeing seeking refuge. Another reason Mexican’s hate Cubans is the dry leg policy where if you make one leg onto American land you won’t be
Mexican Americans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans and El Salvadorians are just to name few who are parts of the Hispanic group. Each and every one of these groups shares many part of their Hispanic culture with one another but also vary in distinct ways. They all share the Spanish language, though each has a different dialect and some words spelled and pronounced the
The biggest differences between Cuba and the United States are the government and economic status. The United States has a democracy where as Cuba has a dictatorship. Cuba is one of the poorest countries in the world and yet the U.S. is one of the most powerful countries in the world. The U.S. sets the standards for other industrial nations, however Cuba does all that it can with their national resources and aid from other countries.
To begin, it is important to know about the history of Cuba to fully comprehend how things came to be as they are today. Since the Conquest and Colonization Era (1492-1898), many of the prominent European countries and the powerful neighbor to the north of Cuba, the United States of America, have attempted to take control of the land. It first began with the Spanish conquistadors, specifically Diego Velázquez, who was the first to explore and settle the land. Up until the end of the 19th century, the Spanish monarch was the authoritative figure overseeing the land and
There are twenty Spanish speaking counties worldwide. Out of those twenty countries there are about 475 million Spanish speaking people. People often believe most Hispanics are very similar in these countries, but in fact they are very diverse. Some the differences are the foods, music, and history of the people. The two countries that show this are Peru and Mexico. These countries are from two distinct cultures and two different continents.
many Latinos are judged by the society they live in simply because they have a different shade of pigment in their skin, or because they have a last name that sounds foreign. At a young age I was not aware that just by simply being brown that I would have to carry the weight of the bad reputation bestowed upon all Latinos. As I grew more mature I came to accept my roots and be proud of my heritage and of my ancestors for every sacrifice that was made .
The history of Hispanic/Latino Americans extends the whole way back to 400 years ago and differs between the regions in the United States. Their existence is the second longest, right behind Native Americans. It is not unusual to hear Spanish being spoken while walking down the roads of an American city. Less than 4 million U.S. citizens were from Spanish-speaking countries in 1950. If we look at this number today, it has gone up to 45 million people. About 50 percent of Hispanics have backgrounds in Mexico, while the other 50 percent come from an assortment of countries. These countries include Colombia, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic. About 36 percent of Hispanics in the U.S. live in California. Many Hispanics populate states including
In 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba and claimed it for Spain. Over the years, Cuba became annoyed of Spain’s consistent harsh ruling. In 1868, Cuba began its first uprising due to this. After ten years of restless fighting, Spain eventually destroyed Cuba’s rebellion. However, they didn’t give up. In 1895, the Cubans tried a second uprising. Spain had began a policy of reconcentration, which was when they forced the Cubans into large detention camps.
The Cuban population consists of a variety of ethnic origins. In the early days before the Spanish inhabited Cuba the population was made up of 90% Taino speaking American Indians ho had displaced even earlier inhabitants. Shortly after came the Spanish conquest.
In conclusion, there are many stereotypes about hispanics. Negative stigma about hispanics should be diminished, it is not right to base your view of a group of people on one bad event or thing that happened within that group. Past events or details should not shape your outlook on hispanics, they should teach you to look forward and see that they are nothing like that now, maybe so, but most likely not. Stereotypes about hispanics are made based on the negative views that have been created by other people in the past and based on those negative views people will use them to drag down
The island of Cuba is located on the northern rim of the Caribbean Sea and was inhabited by Arawak and Ciboney Indians prior to colonization by the Spanish in 1511. This native population, due to the colonization of the Spanish, was ravaged by decease, enslavement and warfare which ultimately caused their extinction. Cuba received little attention throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries like most of Spain’s Caribbean colonies because Spain was concentrating attention on Central and South America, largely ignoring the island colonies.
America and Cuba have a very interesting history going back to the late 1800's. After the Spanish-American war ended, a peace treaty was signed and Spain had to give up Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam. However, the United States gave Cuba
has nearly 10 million immigrants living and settled into the country. Often when the problem of immigration is discussed, it included something to do with the U.S. because of the larger amounts of individuals who come from all around. Since long ago, the United States has been viewed from surrounding nations as a place to renew your life and have chances to be successful and this very reason is why many poor families emigrate here to flee their current circumstances. Cuba is completely the opposite and has been see as a country that is very poor and struggles to stay afloat. This is primarily the reason why it remains a country that has very little immigrants and those who do immigrant come from even poorer regions and cannot gain the resources/money to cover expenses to travel to the United States.
Cuba gained its independence from the United States in 1902 after the Treaty of Paris. Political, Cuba and the United States are different starting with the age of voting. In Cuba in order to vote you must be 16 years of age. However, in the United States the voting age
During the 1800’s expansion was taking place and many countries were trying to gain independence from colonies. This was a point in history when many countries wanted to gain to gain more land, resources, stronger militaries and overall power. At this time Cuba was controlled by Spain also known as the Spanish. Cubans wanted independence but the Spanish and their military forces were too powerful to defeat by themselves. The Spanish treated the Cubans very harsh by starting concentration camps. Many Cubans were severely dying of starvation, and other countries such as America became aware of this tragedy taking place in Cuba.
Three years prior to the Spanish-American war in 1898, Cuba was in the midsts of a war to gain independence from Spain; called the Cuban War of Independence. The United States were slightly involved in this conflict but on the outskirts of it. Economically and politically unstable