Cubans also have a issue w being too black esp here in america.i used to hate going to spanish functions growing up
i realized that all of us that are here in america (my entire family), we have all sought to not marry another cuban / hispanic for the mere fact that we were always too black. We wore braids and we didnt act spanish enough.
living in brooklyn my mom and her sisters did the next best thing they mixed in w other islanders.. my family is made up of cuban/ jamaicans, cuban/trini, cuban /bajan. I think also it was helpedby the fact that my gradfather used to travel to other island and taught them to speak island english while in cuba so they adapted to the climate in BK

I never had a latino bf ever just because I was not the typ. cuban girl and I embraced my black side.
to other men that were not hispanic i was just "ahem" a sexy cuban girl