America's Unique Culture Fuels Minority Entrepreneurship

Carlos Gazitua is the owner of Sergio’s Restaurant in Miami. Carlos’s grandmother and mother founded Sergio’s after fleeing Fidel Castro’s Cuba and landing in America with nothing but the clothes on their backs and recipes for authentic Cuban food in their heads. Opening a restaurant was a way for the family to escape the factory floor and become financially independent.

Carlos pinpoints a major reason why this success is possible in America: the country’s culture of entrepreneurship. “There’s a culture in America of independence, freedom, and taking risk. There’s a culture that if you put your hard work in, your earnings are not to be shared.”