r/cuba • u/nipsych • 17d ago

Ayuda i want to start learning about cuba

hello, i am from the united states. my biological father was cuban but dipped so i have only been raised with my white family. but now i really want to learn as much as i can about cuba!

im trying to learn spanish (need to get onto that again ive been slipping) and i have no clue where to start on learning about a whole country. should i start with the specific people that are important to cuba? do i start with the beginning of the timeline and work my way up? are there any sources or media i can read or watch that may help me understand the culture more?

unfortunately all i know is a little about che guvera, cigars, and communism 🫩 other than that i dont have much to work with. my mother doesnt want to help understand it either so im just on my own for this one lol.

id love to hear anything about cuba, and thank you for your time! ❤️

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u/Ok_Salamander_8436 17d ago

Ah yes, Florida cubans, definitivamente el mejor lugar para aprender una version no parcializada de la historia. Ya le dijiste que no lea propaganda de la dictadura, pero despues que lea la otra propaganda que te cae mejor 😂🫩

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u/TerribleSyntax Mayabeque 17d ago

Te guste o no la comunidad cubana de miami es la mas grande del mundo fuera de la isla, eso es simplemente un hecho. Y que propaganda? Las palabras de los cubanos que pueden hablar libremente? Que vaya a cuba tambien, a los barrios y poblados fuera del nido de clarias de miramar y el vedado, que le van a decir lo mismo. No me vengas a decir a mi que un cubano por haberse escapado de ese infierno es menos cubano.

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u/Illustrator_Moist 16d ago

Cubans in Cuba are very different from Cubans in Miami. Cubans in Cuba hate Trump, Cubans in Miami love Trump. I wonder why that is? Hmmm 🤔

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u/SomeDudesBro 14d ago

To be fair cubas extremely old population seems to be the only one to really hate trump , most younger people seem in favor of American Intervention

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u/Illustrator_Moist 14d ago

Uh... No lol. Id love to meet these people because all my cousins hate Trump (he's literally killing Cuban babies and not letting them have electricity? Also no one on this planet wants American intervention wtf lol)

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u/SomeDudesBro 14d ago

Says the cuban living in Florida , come here mate , see the REAL Cuba

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u/Illustrator_Moist 14d ago

Dale give me like a couple months. So real quick, do you think watching videos counts? If I showed you a video of someone saying something different from your narrative, does that have any value whatsoever? The only to know about what's happening in a country is to live there, right?

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u/SomeDudesBro 14d ago

Good point really , thing is we are talking about Cuba , the information about the current cuban situation can be manipulated by the Americans or by the PCC alike to fit whatever narrative

For example if you told me egg prices where high in the US I would believe you , but if I told you egg prices where high in cuba , it would be harder to prove in my opinion

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u/Illustrator_Moist 14d ago

Pero bro, if I show you a video of someone walking up to a random person in Cuba and asking their opinion, is it that easy to manipulate? The government just has people waiting by tourists so they can tell them how much they dislike Trump, just to do what? Support communism or whatever? Idk bro, this stuff is tough and I agree Im never going to have a shut and case opinion until I go in person by myself but bro Idk what to tell you. What do you think about Belly of the Beast YT channel?

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u/SomeDudesBro 14d ago

People tend to be scared to have their faces publically shown on social media as they talk bad about the country , take the guys in holguin who got arrested for having a YouTube channel where they talked about the governments problems , the "despingovery channel" where the guy would laugh at destroyed places in cuba , he was also arrested

Porque sigo hablando en Ingles?

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u/Illustrator_Moist 14d ago

Yo prefiero Spanglish lol. I'm not talking about people talking bad about the government, I'm literally saying I've seen videos of people walking around Cuba, asking people for their opinion on Trump, and they almost all dislike him. There are people who also didn't dislike him but it was a tiny minority. Compared to Miami Cubans Cuba Cubans are not even close. I've also seen people when they come from Cuba (my house was constantly filled with balseros coming in and out) and I've seen the process. Almost 100% of the time Cubans are very apolitical when they get here, they don't care about politics they're just poor and want to make more money. They the process begins where everyone tells them what they need to believe, and they slowly become Republican. This is what I've seen with my own eyes.

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u/Front-Hunt3757 12d ago

> "Yo prefiero Spanglish"

> no sabo
> repeats talking points from the Cuban gov on Reddit

checks out

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u/Illustrator_Moist 12d ago

No one will pass your purity test, so who cares?

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u/Illustrator_Moist 12d ago

Spanglish is not no sabo, I actually only spoke Spanish until I was 5. If you lived in Miami and knew any Cubans you know this is what half of us speak lol

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