Cubans
Havana's native people
Cubans are people from Cuba, the Caribbean island nation south of Florida.
The term covers both citizens of Cuba and people of Cuban descent living elsewhere, particularly the large Cuban American community in Miami.
Cuban can also function as an adjective: Cuban music, Cuban cigars, the Cuban exile community.
Cuba's largest city
- CaribbeanTropical Atlantic region
- LatinAncient Roman language
- HispanicOf Spanish-speaking origin
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
exile · emigrant · refugee · immigrant · Miami · Florida · Little Havana · citizenship
Spicy tomato condiment
- rumbaAfro-Cuban partner dance
- sonMale child relation
- mamboFast Cuban ballroom dance
- cha-chaSyncopated Latin partner dance
Buena Vista · Celia Cruz · music · dancing · Santeria · literature · art · film
Prominent Cuban surname
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- communismCollective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
- embargoOfficial prohibition on trade
Batista · Bay of Pigs · dissidents · defectors · rafters · Mariel · asylum · exile
Filling between bread slices
- porkPig as food
- hamCured pig thigh
- Swiss cheeseHole-riddled dairy product
- mustardTangy seed-paste condiment
pickles · pressed · mojo · lechon · plantains · yuca · black beans · rice
Dried smoking leaf
- MontecristoCuban cigar brand
- BolivarSpanish surname meaning liberator
- hand-rolledFormed manually, not mechanically
- wrapperOuter protective layer
filler · binder · humidor · aficionado · stogie · corona · robusto · torpedo
Havana
Cuba's largest city
diaspora · exile · emigrant · refugee · immigrant · Miami · Florida · Little Havana · citizenship · passport
salsa
Spicy tomato condiment
cha-cha · Buena Vista · Celia Cruz · music · dancing · Santeria · literature · art · film · theater
Castro
Prominent Cuban surname
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- communismCollective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
embargo · Batista · Bay of Pigs · dissidents · defectors · rafters · Mariel · asylum · exile · opposition
sandwich
Filling between bread slices
- porkPig as food
- hamCured pig thigh
- Swiss cheeseHole-riddled dairy product
mustard · pickles · pressed · mojo · lechon · plantains · yuca · black beans · rice · flan
tobacco
Dried smoking leaf
- MontecristoCuban cigar brand
- BolivarSpanish surname meaning liberator
- hand-rolledFormed manually, not mechanically
wrapper · filler · binder · humidor · aficionado · stogie · corona · robusto · torpedo · smoke
- Islandersislander, Hawaiians, Hawaiian, Fijians, Jamaican
- peoplesAmericans, British, Chinese, French, Germans
- Caribbean peoplesJamaicans, Haitians, Barbadians, Trinidadians, Dominicans
- ethnic groupsJews, Arabs, Chinese, Irish, Greeks
- Hispanic WorldSpain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Peru
- populationspatients, inpatients, outpatients, elderly patients, stroke patients
CubansPuerto Ricans
People from a U.S. territory
Dominicans · Jamaicans · Haitians · Bahamians · Trinidadians
CubansAmericans
U.S. citizens
Cuban Americans · Taiwanese · capitalists · South Koreans · Soviets
CubansHaitians
Citizens of a Caribbean republic
Mexicans · Central Americans · undocumented immigrants · economic migrants · Guatemalans
- Cuban RevolutionCaribbean island's 1959 overthrow
- Cuban rumSugarcane spirit from island
- Cuban cigarTobacco roll from Havana
- Cuban sandwichPressed meat and pickle sub
- Cuban sandwichesPressed pork and ham melts
- Cuban coffeeSugar-whipped Caribbean espresso