This episode is a reading of the most successful article I've ever written: Havana Is Not Your Hipster Playground. This message to non-Cuban Americans on how to travel to Cuban intentionally emerged from a simple epiphany I had one day: that non-Cuban Americans often lack the historical context endemic to a Cuban American upbringing.
This results in two very different paradigms through which each group views travel to Cuba, one rooted in the desire for meaningful development and the other manifested in the flawed attitude of “Let’s go to Cuba before it changes." This attitude is rooted in the fear that progress will ruin the beauty that well-intentioned non-Cuban Americans see in Cuba and in the resilient Cuban people.
This article is my best attempt to identify, understand, and ultimately reconcile these two paradigms by explaining that meaningful change & development will only bolster the beauty & culture of Cuba and its people, not denigrate it.
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