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La técnica cubana, often abbreviated as técnica, is a form of Cuban contemporary dance that was founded by Ramiro Guerra Suarez in Cuba in 1959. [1] Unlike other forms of traditional Cuban dance, técnica fuses many different dance forms together, such as those from Africa, Europe, and North America. It is a highly expressive and robust dance ...
Chinese Language and Arts School (Escuela de la Lengua y Artes China) opened in 1993 and has grown since then, helping Chinese Cubans to strengthen their knowledge of the Chinese language. Today, Chinese Cubans tend to speak Mandarin , Cantonese , and Hakka in addition to Spanish and English and may speak in a mixture of Chinese and Spanish.
Danzón is the official musical genre and dance of Cuba. [3] It is also an active musical form in Mexico and is still beloved in Puerto Rico.The danzón evolved from the Cuban contradanza (also known as the habanera).
A typical Cuban sandwich. A Cuban sandwich (sometimes called a mixto, especially in Cuba [6] [7]) is a popular lunch item that grew out of the once-open flow of cigar workers between Cuba and Florida (specifically Key West and the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa) in the late 19th century and has since spread to other Cuban American communities.
Transcription into Chinese characters is the use of traditional or simplified Chinese characters to phonetically transcribe the sound of terms and names of foreign words to the Chinese language. Transcription is distinct from translation into Chinese whereby the meaning of a foreign word is communicated in
USSR postage stamp, 1972. The red scarf is a neckerchief worn by young pioneers of several socialist countries. In the Soviet Union, it was known as pionerskiy galstuk (пионерский галстук, i.e. 'pioneer's tie'), in Vietnam as khăn quàng đỏ ('red scarf'), in China as hóng lǐngjīn (simplified Chinese: 红领巾; traditional Chinese: 紅領巾, 'red scarf'), in Cuba as ...
Chinese Cuban cuisine stems from the earliest migration of Chinese migrants to Cuba in the mid-1800s. [1] Due to a labor shortage, close to 125,000 indentured or contract Chinese laborers arrived in Cuba between 1847 and 1874. [1] The laborers or coolies were almost exclusively male, and most worked on sugar plantations alongside enslaved ...
The guaracha (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaˈɾatʃa]) is a genre of music that originated in Cuba, of rapid tempo and comic or picaresque lyrics. [1] [2] The word has been used in this sense at least since the late 18th and early 19th century. [3]