Cuban Culture
The Cuban culture is a crucible where cultural declarations of 3 continents are melted: Europe, Africa and Asia what has given him this dimension of universality which enjoys. Of allende the conquerors came the Sea Ocean from Spain in his ships and since consequence of this exploit - not bloodless - the natives eliminated in only 40 years, victims of illnesses known till then, of ill-treatment and of the fire of the arcabuces and the blow of the swords. Later they came, also in ships, the African slaves brought to attend to the increasing economy of plantations and already in the XIXth century Chineses came culíes, French colonists from Haiti fleeing of the hosts of Toussaint L'Ouverture and later there kept on coming Spanish of Canary Isles, Galicia and other regions of the Iberian Peninsula and North Americans, Swedishes, Japanese came also, Jews and from all this diversity there arose the unity, a proper culture that grew throughout the centuries and that is a product of the biggest of the crossbreedings. Fernando Ortiz, an eminent Cuban wise person, studied this process and called him transculturación.
The Cuban culture has been bountiful in personalities in all the cultural genres and has given to the world both musical declarations and the sound - precursor of such a popular sauce - and the chachachá as writers and poets of the height of José Maria Heredia, José Martí, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Dulce Maria Loynaz, Alejo Carpentier, José Lezama Lima, Nicolás Guillén or Eliseo Diego, or painters of international reputation recognized as{like} Wilfredo Lam, René Portocarrero or Tomás Valdés, or exponents of the dance as the National Ballet of Cuba.
The most dissimilar cultural declarations develop his activities in Cuba. The literature and the fine arts, the cinema, the ballet, the modern dance, the theater, the music, have given names of international relevancy. The cultural Cuban infrastructure consists of theater, museums, galleries of art and cinemas, in which there appear not only samples of the national undivided assets of all the times, but also of the world art. It is a head office of important international events like they are the Festival of Ballet, the Biennial ones of Plastic Arts, Festivals of Popular Musician and the Festival of the New Latin-American Cinema, and others.