Cuban Culture Research Paper

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In researching the business culture of another foreign country for the use of an informational memo. I am letting my classmates, know what country has been chosen to research and share some of it's interesting facts on the country of Cuba.

How is that country's culture similar to or different from U.S. culture?

Despite the fact, of some of the ways Cuban culture can be similar to U.S. culture may be through the average family of the U.S. having 3.19 members, where the Cuban family average has 3.18 members.

Some of the differences of the U.S. and Cuba cultures are unambiguous. However, the Americans take for granted many luxuries, where as Cubans go without; nevertheless, one of the moral qualities of happiness cannot be built on what

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