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Anonymous
Sup /trv/

I'm going to go and study overseas next year in Cuba for a couple months and probably get a melanin treatment as well. You guys got any advice?
>> Anonymous
take lots of pictures of government facilities
>> Anonymous
Don't bring anything too expensive or that you couldn't part with easily. Cubans poverty is a lot more desperate than other third world poverty you may have experienced. You will probably end up giving away most of your more useful consumer goods (watch, alarm clock, etc) to various people you befriend.
>> Anonymous
>>21575
have you been to cuba, srsly?
>> Anonymous
go quick, before it becomes yet another neo-liberal shithole with people eating each other...
>> Anonymous
>>21584

Yes. You?
>> Anonymous
>>21587
I have, and for some reason my observations weren't like that.

They were poor alright, but they seemed pretty content, and, I was never robbed or anything...
>> Anonymous
>>21594

Didn't say anything about being robbed. I think Cuba is one place where you won't have to worry quite so much about robbery. People live in fear of the police.

But if you were on a regular airline flight (not one of those vacation charters), perhaps you noticed all the people loaded up with toilet paper, soap, etc. There is a serious lack of everything on that island. Not saying you can't go there and leave unmolested, but if you befriend some locals during your several months, you can be sure they'll appreciate some household appliances or everyday tools you may have brought with you without a second thought.

In contrast, your typical study abroad program anywhere else will leave you exposed to middle class citizens who are accustomed to a standard of living similar to your own. There is no such middle class in Cuba.
>> Anonymous
>>21598

Oh and I already regret the references to the police state, but anyone with half a brain knows it is a police state, whether or not they agree with Castro, the embargo, etc. I guess it is inevitable that this thread degenerates into /n/ style political name calling and racism at some point...
>> Anonymous
>>21598
indeed, and you simply ignore the homeless people eating trash outside, and you think the country is wondrous, right?
>> Anonymous
>>21599

OP here.

From what I've heard, racism is practically nonexistant in Cuba.
>> Anonymous
>>21616

Yeah that's what they say. I would guess that it's more like "institutionalized racism is nonexistent in Cuba" (unlike, say, Mexico, or Bolivia, where it's practically an essential part of the national identity).

But I'll bet there are still plenty of white parents who won't let their precious daughters marry black men. That kind of racism is pretty hard to undo, no matter how much control you can exert over the economy.
>> Anonymous
>>21616
WRONG YOU FAG NIGGER
>> Anonymous
>>21616
Cuba is the least racist place in the world where people of different colours actually reside in.