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Taste of Freedom Not Enough
The Sun-Sentinel's Vanessa Bauza wrote an article yesterday on Cubans who managed to leave Cuba, but returned to the island after a short time in the United States.
It's a different twist to the stories you normally hear about: Cubans literally dying to come to the U.S. and making a decent life here. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work that way. Being homesick without family is too tough for some to handle. Working hard for a living is something that Cubans just aren't used to...check out this quote from the article:
"People here [in Cuba] think that in the United States planes fly overhead throwing dollars out the window," he said. "They don't know you have to work 16 hours a day for your money while they're here playing dominoes."
It would be easy for me to sit here and criticize that comment, but I have to remember that today's Cubans are brought up in a totally different system, one where hard work is not rewarded, therefore not necessary.
Read the entire story here.
It's a different twist to the stories you normally hear about: Cubans literally dying to come to the U.S. and making a decent life here. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work that way. Being homesick without family is too tough for some to handle. Working hard for a living is something that Cubans just aren't used to...check out this quote from the article:
"People here [in Cuba] think that in the United States planes fly overhead throwing dollars out the window," he said. "They don't know you have to work 16 hours a day for your money while they're here playing dominoes."
It would be easy for me to sit here and criticize that comment, but I have to remember that today's Cubans are brought up in a totally different system, one where hard work is not rewarded, therefore not necessary.
Read the entire story here.
posted by Robert at 9:31 AM
1 Comments:
Yes there are cases of botelleros that come here to vivir del cuento and end up going back. But everybody knows that's a tiny percentage. The 25th anniversary of Mariel was an incredible thing. A lot of people said the same kind of things about the Marielitos. Today those people are as established as the first wave of immigrants was when the Marielitos cam here.
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