To my sadness I often hear the expression, “and the worse part is that it had to be a Cuban.

Why? Many of us forget our roots and assimilate to foreign cultures, and try to look over the head to those who they think are less than them, dirtying their paths instead of feeling proud of their own people.

Nothing can hurt me more than listening to some people talking bad about our own, and even worse, if the one who is talking is one of us. Like the proverb says “there is no worse chip than the one that comes from the same tree.”

And I ask myself, why? Our wine might be sour, but it is our wine. We should work together to improve the situation not to destroy it. It is true that everywhere in the planet we are going to find goood and bad, but we should always try to make it better.

Let’s get together to improve our people, and to all of our own critics, let’s forget about destructive criticism and start loving more, and feeling prouder of our own.
We should teach our children to love their roots, just like we have learned to love this country which opened its arms to welcome us and which is also a part of us.