Hispanic+Heritage+Essay

//**Cuban Essay**//

We should keep Hispanic heritage alive because of food, games, and religion. We could get ideas from food to create other types of food. We create games by games like dominoes and gold fish. Religion can be a huge part country. Religion can help other country create other religion. For an example Buddhism came from Hinduism.

First let's talk about food. Cubans put everything on their food. If they are hungry they will put food on top of food. The most popular food is rice with black beans. Some Cuban people like have some spice to their food. Second popular food banana when it is fry with water. They first smash it, then they fry it in oil. The third popular is Cuban Sandwich. The Cuban sandwich has muster, ham, roost beef, pickles, and last but not least they have bread. Hispanic people cook for four people instead they cook for ten people. There is holiday name good night in english. At good night feast they have a big pig.

Second let's talk about Cuban games. When baseball was in the Olympics the Cuban baseball team won gold and silver in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008. Baseball was brought to Cuba in the nineteenth century by the North American. When i went to Cuba to play a international soccer tournament. They will start the game by saying it Spanish " we are from Cuba and are team name is .... Then it go to the opponent turn and then they will say it in Spanish too. We said" we are from America and are team name is The American All-Stars. I was shocked when i read that Cubans are less interested in soccer. They love to play baseball. They also love to dominoes. For people that don't know what dominoes is, dominoes is just like playing gold fish. Cuba second favorite sport is boxing. They have always compete in international boxing 32 of 65 Cuba's 65 Olympics gold meddles come from boxing. Since 1959 Cuba, Cubans have won more than one hundred forty Olympics meddles. Basketball became popular in the mid-to-late 1960.

Last but least Cuba religion. The main religion in cuba catholic. The percentage of Cuban religion is sixty percent Roman Catholic, five percent Protestant, thirty five percent of the other religion. The communist government decide to banned religion. How ever Christmas was made a holiday again in 2007 when Pope John second visited Cuba, and Cubans were granted more religious freedom. I ask my grandpa what religion was he when he was in Cuba. He said " Roman Catholic". I ask what that was and he said " it is thing as Catholic but Roman Catholic is just more strict. The most strictest religion in Cuba is Roman Catholic. In the sixteen century there has a jewish community. One faith that has always been practiced in Cuba is called Santería (the way of the saints). It is a mixture of Catholic and African. Since 1992 the Communist Party has admitted as members persons who openly declare their religious faith. The Government does not permit religious education in public schools and does not permit the operation of private schools of any kind, including religious schools, although several international schools in Havana are given considerable leeway in setting their curricula.