By Mark Alfonso
Havana, Cuba .- The Cuban has said it is unique. Also could be the Philippines, Switzerland, Inuit, Congolese, in short, everything is under the eye of which is mire.No chauvinism, I assure you.
But the personality of the native in this Island, and I apologize to the scientists, are enclosed genes came from other places, besides the natives, of course.
Don Fernando Ortiz called ajiaco our nationality (Indian, African, English ... a lesser extent English, American or French, not to include other nations that I believe contributed their bit to our intake genetics).
From the dress, dance, create, speak ... to lead their life. It's no secret: the Cuban in the moments of greatest tension, whatever they are, always have a joke or smile during sedation, even in death.
Sainete recall the Song of Posthumus, Rubén Martínez Villena, poem, portrays its wake, "spring up under the hilarious nonsense or the simple story full of perversion / and craved chocolate cups / will be Tasty breaks in the conversation. "
But what takes this comment is the arrival in my hands survey by a fellow living abroad and whose suggestive title: "Test of Cuban citizenship," while tasteful joke, we tested the knowledge of knowing exactly how much we know. Or, as some religious of African origin: We are or we are not! Start the quiz: What happened to Chacumbele?, "Who was the bidet?, Who knocked the mule, What happens to child who does not cry? Who walks like that? ... sausages and other questions to 67. In fact, according to the responses, we categorizados.Desde things then it is indigenous, and would typically unique to this land.
For example: Cuban does not dance, take a walk, yerba santa is used for throat cock Moron ran out of feathers and clucking, the woman is dame, man, type, and the child, chama. When someone does something good, or bad: it gave the leg to the beat! Bread with guava, is not so, but bread and timba. When you take a running shoe. Gray hair who, although young, are pure. The dead to the hole and the live chicken. Who pays the blame for everything? In Totí unhappy. When someone dies, hanging the sword, cherry Scale was tafia ...
Of course, the relaxation should be in order. How did it happen? It's up magicians and mediums. There could be thousands of explanations and treated to unlock the mystery. But as Melquiades sentenced in One Hundred Years of Solitude: "Science has eliminated distance." Now there are treatises on popular speech, idioms, proverbs, speeches and even nicknames that typify the idiosyncrasies of any people on the planet.
However, to sustain the initial concept of this sort of journalistic ajiaco: just ride by bus, visit any park and cultural or sporting rock, walk the neighborhoods of the city or go into the embers of families . There are the roots. The other, why, is just to have time and digging. For that we are also made of cubanos.Dígase Cuba, and talk of exclusivity and those who fill this unique island of poems and stories, universal line of generations of children who were born, over five centuries and some have written more stories, told or not, but inclusive of those seven letters that distinguish us.
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