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I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.

— Italo Calvino

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

— Daisy Fuentes

I'm Cuban. Both my parents are Cuban. My grandparents are, too. Although I have no idea where Fit comes from.

— Chrissie Fit

I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

— Oscar Nunez

I'm actually Cuban-born, born in 1956, the year Fidel Castro came into power, and my father moved my family to Miami a few years later when things were starting to look bad.

— Steven Bauer

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

— Ted Cruz

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

— Gio Gonzalez

I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

— Ted Cruz

✗Opposing Perspectives

Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything.

— Dominik Garcia-Lorido

Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.

— Marco Rubio