“Culture is also a big part of Cuban Culture, especially in eastern Cuba. Haitian culture is very much celebrated in Cuba. With the arrival of Haitian immigrants in the 19th century Haitian culture and French and Haitian Creole languages, entered Cuba. Haiti was a French Colony and the final years of the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution brought a wave of French settlers fleeing with their Haitian slaves to Cuba.
Cubans feared a reply of the Haitian Revolution, which was not quelled by the current guerrilla warfare in Haiti, Haitians were stereotyped as being violent and rife with crime, that all change when Fidel Castro took power, since 1959 when he took over, this discrimination has stopped. After Spanish, Haitian Creole is the second most-spoken language in Cuba where over 300,000 recent Haitian immigrants speak it.
It is recognized as a language in Cuba and a considerable number of Cubans speak it fluently. Most of these speak have never been to Haiti and do not posses Haitian ancestry, but merely learned it in their communities.”