Īdditionally, many North American Indians living in Spanish missions in Georgia and Florida were evacuated to Spanish Cuba along with the fleeing Spanish settlers following the loss of Spanish Florida. According to a 2018 genome-wide data study, the eastern region of the island had an average Native American ancestry contribution of 10% as compared to an average of 5% in the rest of the island. Most, however, live on the eastern part of the island, notably in Granma, Guantánamo, and Las Tunas. Of the Taínos the number of people claiming descent have not been formally recorded. After the Industrial Revolution, many of these laborers stayed in Cuba because they could not afford return passage to China. The Chinese population in Cuba is descended mostly from indentured laborers who arrived in the 19th century to build railroads and work in mines. They are mostly of Chinese (especially Cantonese), Japanese or Korean origins. Main articles: Chinese Cubans and Filipino CubansĬubans of East Asian origins made up 1.02% of the population in the 2002 Census of Cuba. In Cuba, there is an Afro-Gypsy population. Īlthough Afro-Cubans can be found throughout Cuba, Eastern Cuba has a higher concentration of Blacks than other parts of the island, and Havana has the largest population of blacks of any city in Cuba. The matter is further complicated by the fact that a fair number of people still locate their origins in specific African ethnic groups or regions, particularly the Akan, Yoruba (or Lucumí), Igbo and Congo, but also Arará, Carabalí, Mandingo, Fula, Makua, and others.īased on genetic testing in 2014, the average African, European and Native American ancestry in those self-reporting to be "negro (Black)" was 65.5% "African", 29% "European" ancestry and 5.5% "Native American" or other ancestry. Thus a significant proportion of those living on the island affirm some sub-Saharan African ancestry. Just about 1.3 million Cubans described themselves as black. The Afro-Cuban population was 9.3% in the 2012 Census of Cuba. There is a small remnant of Jewish as well as Levantine peoples, mainly Lebanese, Palestinians and Syrians. Central and Eastern European influence was mostly during the Cold War years and immigration from the British Isles was mostly to Havana and Pinar del Rio Province. Europeans with lesser influx were Greeks, Portuguese, Romanians and Russians. Other European nationalities with significant influx include: English, French, Germans, Irish, Italians, Poles and Scots. During the 18th, 19th and early part of the 20th century especially, large waves of Canary Islanders, Galicians, Asturians and Catalans emigrated from Spain to Cuba. The majority of the European ancestry comes from Spain. Based on genetic testing (2014) in Cuba, the average European, African and Native American ancestry in those auto-reporting to be white were 86%, 6.7%, and 7.8%. In the 2012 Census of Cuba, 64.1% of the inhabitants self-identified as white. Main article: Spanish immigration to Cuba As a result, Cubans generally do not equate their ethnicity with nationality but with citizenship and their allegiance to Cuba. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic, religious and national backgrounds. Irreligion, Protestantism, Santería, Ifá, Judaism Ĭubans ( Spanish: Cubanos) are people born in Cuba and people with Cuban citizenship.
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