Thirty Days as a Cuban Article Review

THIRTY DAYS AS A CUBAN Article Review Based on Patrick Symmes article Thirty geezerhood as a Cuban, it seems as though the degree of ECONOMIC INEQUALITY (the extent of the economic difference between the rich and the poor) in Cuba is relatively low. While many people still make more than others, the vast majority of Cubans are significantly poor and suffer from starvation from day to day. Symmes eyeshade of the average life of a Cuban was interesting because I dont believe many people are aware of the suffrage going on in this country. I, for one, am a prime example of this.I had no idea that such a state existed in Cuba. The ration system and dictatorship of the country devote immensely to the degree of poverty. And in turn, poverty results in what we would label as DEVIANCE and CRIME (behavior that violates norms and arouses negative social & behavior that violates written laws, respectively). These people literally have no choice but to result to crime in order to survive. The communistic ways and schemes of the government do not really enable moral and ethical ways of making even a mere comfortable living.This suggests an inevitably low chance of VERTICAL MOBILITY (the movement up or down a through a societys stratification system) in the sense that while the Cuban government might like to think or utter people that movement up the vertical scale is possible, it really is not. Another suggest I found interesting is that the Cubans seem to be pretty rank CONSCIOUS (aware of their social class membership, the structural reasons for it, and the needs arising from such membership). They are 100% aware of where they stand in the social ladder, but there is almost little they can do about it.They are aware of what the government is doing giving them just adequate to get by, but, in reality, is not enough to survive. The problem in Cuba isnt food, or clothes. Its the total lack of civil liberty, and therefore of economic liberty, which is why you have to have the libreta in the first place. This quote validates my point exactly. The Cubans are very aware of their suppression, but in contrast to Karl Marxs theory that the oppressed would inevitably revolt if they had class consciousness, the Cubans cannot because of the dictatorship existing in their country.