The admiral Christopher Columbus asked to a native of that place, if was mainland or island, and he answer it was infinite land, whom nobody has seen the end, but was an island.
Our culture is a mixture of Spanish tradition of our conquistadors, of the black slaves from Africa, and from many Chinese immigrants. The mixture of the Spanish guitar and the African drum give to the Cuban music his most distinctive forms, "la Rumba" and "el Son"

Cuban fauna

Cubans use many animal names in our daily conversation, for us a stupid person is a donkey. A strong man is a bull or a horse. The intruder is a frog. The coward is a rat, a roach, or a hen. Gays are call duck, bird or butterfly. A troublemaker is called a fighting cock. If the time is cold we say “the monkey is singing”, persons who mimic another one is also called a monkey.

The Cuban president José Miguel Gómez was called Shark. Another president, Machado , was called donkey with claws. The Cubans who live the country are called worms, A popular Havana neighborhood is called snake, To the whistle blowers are called goats. A pretty woman is called chicken. And when somebody bothers to much is a bug.

When somebody is a god swimmer, we say “is a fish”. Kids use to play a game called “the little blind hen”, There is people who work like a mule, or speak like a parrot. If somebody mistreats us, we say the treat us like a dog. There is people who eat like a pick. There is people who walk like a turtle. Who just pretend to be a god person is called a fox. We say in a closed mouth flies do not enter. Who don’t prosper “goes back like the crab”. A fool Is called donkey. A man in a dress suit is dressed “like a penguin”. A god friend is said to be more valuable that a “couple of oxen”. Very smart people are said to “know more that the roaches”.

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