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I promise this livejournal is not turning into All Book Promotion All The Time. I just feel I must do my job.
On another front, I have a pile of Prague posts backordered due to the internet issues while I was there and being occupied with other things since I have returned. But expect posts on: "How (not) to eat like a Czech" (the secret is that Czechs don't eat that much Czech food), the Opera in the Forest, Hiking in the City, and how to choose what season to visit.
Also I may tackle topics I have no expertise on -- why not? everybody else does it -- like what the communist legacy is and isn't in Prague (I see a lot of people ascribing aspects of Czech life to communism, which were present before Marx was even born).
Also regular daily life, of course. Did I mention that it rained here the other day? Really. Very unusual for the time of year, and not just a drizzle. You should have seen how happy everybody was.
I promise this livejournal is not turning into All Book Promotion All The Time. I just feel I must do my job.
On another front, I have a pile of Prague posts backordered due to the internet issues while I was there and being occupied with other things since I have returned. But expect posts on: "How (not) to eat like a Czech" (the secret is that Czechs don't eat that much Czech food), the Opera in the Forest, Hiking in the City, and how to choose what season to visit.
Also I may tackle topics I have no expertise on -- why not? everybody else does it -- like what the communist legacy is and isn't in Prague (I see a lot of people ascribing aspects of Czech life to communism, which were present before Marx was even born).
Also regular daily life, of course. Did I mention that it rained here the other day? Really. Very unusual for the time of year, and not just a drizzle. You should have seen how happy everybody was.
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I've thought about this quite a bit, because of the time I spent in Cuba -- which included living within a fairly typical extended Cuban family, that includes all range of skin tones, and employment from the military to so-called manual labor, to someone like my 'sister,' who is now the president of UNIAC, Cuba's state arts agency.
The thing is, that in Cuba, there's a this deep and broad African layer, in which much is done communally, whether labor or sharing with the entire community, and certainly the extended family. This was something upon which Fidel's form of communism mapped easily and successfully -- particularly since the African-heritage populations were the ones who suffered the most under dictators like Batista and were always exploited and excluded. Thus the Revolution was very good for them, for people like my 'familia.' If you were a white, privileged political type, not so much.
Love, C.