Cuba has more then a few things going for it - namely relative cultural and linguistic homogeneity. My Spanish-speaking Mexican grandfather has a home in a hist

Cuba has more then a few things going for it - namely relative cultural and linguistic homogeneity. My Spanish-speaking Mexican grandfather has a home in a historically German suburban neighborhood full of English-speaking Polish people. There's just not a whole lot of context for community building. Interactions happen only when they're necessary, meaning mostly to resolve some kind of conflict, so there's rarely a positive context. People are just sort of averse to talking to each other and building any kind of neighborly relationship.