Check out this article from the BBC.
It claims that Cuba is the “6th happiest country in the world”.
There’s a caveat:
But, as we will show, this index doesn’t reflect with certainty the levels of happiness, but instead the degree to which each country has a system with the prerequisites for happiness.
Gee, I wonder what those prerequisites are.
Yes, people in Cuba are so happy that they line up outside the Spanish embassy to get a passport from that country so they can escape that land of happiness now that they only need to have one grandparent who was Spanish to qualify.
Yes, they are so happy that they turn their cars into boats so that they can escape.
Yes, they are so happy they register by the hundreds of thousands to obtain one of 20,000 U.S. visas available annually.
Yes, they are so happy that they will lash whatever they can together to make a raft and take their chances with the straits of Florida and the sharks to escape their happy land.
Yes, they are so happy that they get their relatives to spend thousands of dollars to smuggle them out of that happy land.
Cuba has a population of 11 million and there are close to two million Cubans spread throughout the world looking for happiness elsewhere. And if the doors were open for them to leave (Cuba violates the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights and prevents own people from leaving the country) many more would join them.
Yes, happiness indeed. In fact the BBC’s own Cuba correspondent was happily kicked out of the country a while back. Isn’t that just swell?
There is no way these BBC people can be so astronomically clueless or ignorant. This is either a sick joke or, more likely, a perverse attempt to whiten a sepulchre, as the Bible says. In other words, these bastards know perfectly well what goes on in Cuba, but they still choose to aid and abet the system responsible for the people’s misery. They deserve no better than to suffer as average Cubans on the island do. Actually, they deserve worse.
My God! Just when you think you’ve heard it all. What do this people do? Spend hours thinking about asinine ways to ingratiate themselves with the castros? F@#*ing unbelivable!
Firefly, I concur with you. That’s what it looks like, as if all they do is spend time trying to figure out how to ingratiate themselves with the castros, but I wonder how much of this is also racism? In other words, we are just [in their eyes] “third world people.” We don’t–in their prejudiced view– have the same expectations as a Brit or an American. Give us “free healthcare” a “free education”, a house [even if it is falling down on our heads] and some Rumba music to dance to and we’re happy! Sort of like a cow in a stall or a pig in a barn. Give one hay and the other slop and that’s enough!
Henry,
There is one fact and one fact alone which you mentioned here that should tell the whole world the truth that Cuba is not a “Paradise” by any means and is the fact that after Fidel Castro took over twenty percent of the Cuban population has left the country and spread all over the world.
Unfortunately we live in one of the weirdest and strangest times in history in which people’s common sense and intelligence seem to have evaporated; times in which the lies become truth and the truths become lies.
20% of today’s population. Consider that Cuba’s population pre-revolution was only six million. That means the number of Cubans in exile today is roughly a third the number of Cubans that lived under the previous dictator, one who didn’t restrict people from leaving.
You’re right, I was calculating twenty percent out of the 11 million.
Whether is twenty percent or a third of the population should be more than enough evidence to the whole world to prove that the “Robolution” has been a complete and utter failure and that something is extremely wrong if you have to live under the Castro brother’s tyranny.
Yet how often we hear from the MSM about how bad Cuba was before Castro that it makes us puke.