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Black Cuban will call themselves Cubans. None of them will identify themselves as AFROCUBAN. I am pretty sure most of other black "latin" people will identify themselves also by their nationality, and not by their ancestry. In Latin-american countries where Africans were brought as slaves, the plantation system was as brutal, and even more cruel and murderous, than here in the US. I am no historian but I am an educated man, and I could tell you for sure that, at some point, in our common history we diverged. While in the United States black people needed, and rightfully so, to identify themselves as African american, or Afro-american, in the previously mentioned Latin-american countries, racial divide and racism, because there was and still there still blatant racism, never hindered the creation of a melting pot, and a sense of belonging to a specific culture or nationality, not related or identified specifically with a particular race, or ancestry. Cubans are Cubans no matter their race, there is flagrant racism in Cuba but that is forcing black Cubans to say that they are Afro-cubans. The artist in the video says that she is Afro-latina, and that term should only be understood in the context of US culture, or society. She probably needs to say that because she probably have more in common with Afro-americans regarding racial issues here in the United States than a similar woman back in the Latin-american countries. Probably she would have been discriminated back in our countries for being black, but I am sure that she will never use that term to fight racism. She would have said that she is Cuban, Puerto Rican, Colombian, etc , and would have demanded the same respect shown to other people of different races. So, my final words are, racism is universal, every country has racist people but the historic or social elements of that awful reality could be slightly different in each case. Don't extrapolate your experience to other's because it is not that simple, and it would only show how ignorant and stupid you could be.