Cuba

While studying Cuba i learned that you can’t take photos of military personnel, police officers, or airport personnel in Cuba, as this is illegal. I found this interesting because although it isn’t illegal here in America i connected it back to how when police are arresting or performing a form of police brutality they try to tell citizens to put the phone down or don’t record. Although different laws apply here in the USA and Cuba i found similarity in the police force trying to make situations extremely private. After learning about Cuba i learned that they were very controlled and couldn’t have a sense of freedom within theirselves. Until 2008, Cubans were not allowed to purchase their own computers or cellphones. Although technology wasn’t as popular back then. Here in the USA it was still used and growing, especially cellphones to communicate with family or friends. It must’ve been hard to live under those circumstances during that time period because expressing your own individually seemed impossible. In 2008 many Americans had a variety of flip phones .. etc to express who they are through the color of it , the designs they chose to have on their phone ..etc But in Cuba that wasn’t a reality until 2008 because they had a lot of strict rules that you couldn’t bend and had to follow.