Cuban Culture
Cuba
The definition of culture is as complex and intricate as the world itself. Culture is subjective and established through ones beliefs and experience’s in life. The Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Culture Center defines culture as a “dynamic social system,” containing the values, beliefs, behaviors, and norms of a specific group, organization, society or other collective that is learned, shared, and internalized by members of that society (Watson, 2010). Culture is not definite to humanity itself, for it is different based on the cumulative factors in which culture is based. These factors define the way the human race communicates, understands, learns, and evolves. Decisions made throughout history both good and bad all …show more content…
The need for labor and slavery in the early parts of its history is also a great contributor to the multiracial society of Cuba. The influence of the Atlantic Slave Trade greatly contributed to the aspects of culture that is true to Cuba today. According to The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean, slavery itself fed by the Atlantic Slave Trade, under which an estimated 600,000 African slaves were brought to Cuba in the nineteenth century (Collier, 1985). As a result, a multi-ethnic nation represents Cuba’s populace and society. By the twentieth century, according to one estimate, the population was 40 percent black, 30 percent white, and 30 percent mixed including Oriental and Indian (Skidmore, 1984). Because of the cumulative races, Cuban traditions are an outcome of those found all over the …show more content…
Being that Cuba’s economy greatly relied on its export of sugarcane into the U.S, the economy plummeted and had to revolutionize away from its agriculture norms. Consequently Cuban leaders decided to make a change from an economy built off agriculture, to one sustained of industrialization. This decision ultimately failed due to the forced economic embargo set forth on Cuba by the United States in 1960. The embargo made it difficult for the country to acquire the necessary raw materials needed for the change. Under the circumstances, Cuba turned to the Soviet Union for help. These turn of events further separated Cuba from the U.S, and further detached from its learned culture. In present day, Cuba has returned to its economy fed by its agricultural land. Tobacco is the lands most profitable amenity, accompanied by its coffee and
The definition of culture is as complex and intricate as the world itself. Culture is subjective and established through ones beliefs and experience’s in life. The Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Culture Center defines culture as a “dynamic social system,” containing the values, beliefs, behaviors, and norms of a specific group, organization, society or other collective that is learned, shared, and internalized by members of that society (Watson, 2010). Culture is not definite to humanity itself, for it is different based on the cumulative factors in which culture is based. These factors define the way the human race communicates, understands, learns, and evolves. Decisions made throughout history both good and bad all …show more content…
The need for labor and slavery in the early parts of its history is also a great contributor to the multiracial society of Cuba. The influence of the Atlantic Slave Trade greatly contributed to the aspects of culture that is true to Cuba today. According to The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean, slavery itself fed by the Atlantic Slave Trade, under which an estimated 600,000 African slaves were brought to Cuba in the nineteenth century (Collier, 1985). As a result, a multi-ethnic nation represents Cuba’s populace and society. By the twentieth century, according to one estimate, the population was 40 percent black, 30 percent white, and 30 percent mixed including Oriental and Indian (Skidmore, 1984). Because of the cumulative races, Cuban traditions are an outcome of those found all over the …show more content…
Being that Cuba’s economy greatly relied on its export of sugarcane into the U.S, the economy plummeted and had to revolutionize away from its agriculture norms. Consequently Cuban leaders decided to make a change from an economy built off agriculture, to one sustained of industrialization. This decision ultimately failed due to the forced economic embargo set forth on Cuba by the United States in 1960. The embargo made it difficult for the country to acquire the necessary raw materials needed for the change. Under the circumstances, Cuba turned to the Soviet Union for help. These turn of events further separated Cuba from the U.S, and further detached from its learned culture. In present day, Cuba has returned to its economy fed by its agricultural land. Tobacco is the lands most profitable amenity, accompanied by its coffee and