And the fact is that independently of the ways of thinking or of dressing the culture is what guarantees the perpetual unit between the men of the same soil. This way the Center of Studies on the Youth with the IVth National Survey that it realized to this population section in our country in 2012; 96 per cent of the interviewees expressed to feel proud of their culture.

At the risk of sounding a little ¨folclorista¨, tendency that does not recognize the transculturation or the hybridization about which the theoretical Argentinian Néstor García Canclini speaks to us, I join the anthropological conceptions to understand the culture as the outcomes of the finished way of life of a people. Because these ways of being, saying and doing that complement our daily existence is what, indisputably, defines us.

In a recent visit to another province my cousin did not understand that I was choosing between a big forms variety a key ring with the design of the Cuban ensign to bring to house like memory of the trip. That selection was summed up to the desire, till then unsatisfied, always of taking with me a symbol of my Homeland. And my argument, fortunately, convinced her and made her reflect.

We all have between 22 and 24 years old and we would die for the unattainable blouses or pullovers that corporations sell with the love message for Cuba. Also I know of those who have the flag hung on their bedrooms and of others who long to buy it in these establishments but they cannot. This way is great the youth of this island nation. But: why it is so difficult to feel and to breathe Cuba?

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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