My family came from Ecuador.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always been more in touch with my Ecuadorian side. I speak Spanish.
My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.
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.
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.
Anybody who's been to Ecuador wants to go back because it's beautiful out there.
My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.
My family's from Eastern Europe.
My family were from Jamaica.
I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.