Personally, I love Cuban music. There's a radio station in San Antonio, TX that streams a Latin Jazz show every weekend, that I listen to just about every Sunday morning.
Cuban food is pretty great, too.
As an American citizen, I would love to be able to visit a country and say, "I am not here to fight. I am here to EAT."
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Isn't it outdated/ not needed anymore. The cold war has need over for a long time.
It was out last resort.
Those are the pie rates of the Carribean.
Except the trade war with China (which is not nearly as existentially threatening) and Russia being friendly with Trump, in nearly four years of Trump administration, North Korea, Iran and Venezuela are basically the ones whose relations with US have teetered to heightened military tensions. Cuba seems to have been the remarkable exception with Trump only issuing travel restrictions to Cuba 1 2 and thereby also, in effect, de facto reimposing some economic sanctions to the country which the Cubans are already accustomed to.
Does Cuba have some sort of leverage to insulate themselves from further American influence, or is Cuba simply out of Trump's immediate concern?
Hey all, the title pretty much sums it up. Hoping for open discussion moreso than finding somebody who shares my exact life story.
I was born and raised in the Midwest (corn country, city of 200,000). Itβs just where my dad managed to land his residency when his Indian fellowship didnβt carry weight the US market. Very white city, sort of conservative. Even before I was at a stage when I realized all my friends were white, I just never took to culture - I was terrified of dancing, I hated Indian food, and I couldnβt sit still in the local temple. I became even more distant once I started trying to fit in (but unfortunately I didnβt fully become popular until I hit what could only be described as a dramatic second puberty in college).
In college, I was in a frat. Strangely enough, being in a frat and dating/pursuing/rejecting/getting-rejected-by girls is what made me more self aware and think harder about where I came from. Getting to intimately know people with diverse backgrounds (lacking in my hometown) made me think hard about my own background.
Today, Iβm not religious. I eat meat. My fiancΓ©e is Vietnamese. I was better at speaking Gujarati when I was 8 than I am today. After I finished my engineering degree and tried my hand at semi-prestigious jobs that made me question what my life is worth, I decided to get a social sciences PhD, so few people in the community relate to my career/life goals. Still hate dancing, but I made an exception for my siblingβs wedding. I do a couple of Indian things very well - Iβm a damn good cook and I love to entertain guests in the way an overly imposing Indian host likes to entertain. I love spending time in India, and I love the company of family who I canβt communicate with due to language.
I dunno where Iβm going with this - I guess Iβm just looking for encouragement and advice for how to develop a better connection to my culture without fundamentally changing who I am (I love my life 4 times out of 5). Also, like I said in the beginning, Iβd love to hear stories.
