A Not Very Smart Rejection / Fernando Dámaso

Fernando Damaso, 24 September 2016 — At the end of World War II, and after the capitualtion of imperial Japan, thousands of young Japanese of both sexes went to the United States to study, supported by scholarships granted by the US. This allowed them, once they graduated, to support the accelerated development of their nation, and to leave behind the secular backwardness in which they had lived.

The young Japanese of the time, who had suffered the horrors of the war, were able to forget about the indoctrination against the United States, “the enemy,” that they’d been subjected to for years. And they demonstrated that they could be modern without renouncing their roots or their national identity.

Today Cuban young people, indoctrinated in the “socialist idiotology,” through their “governmental student organizations — Young Communist League, Federation of University Students, Federation of Secondary Students, and others — and “counseled” by “retired agents” and “official spokespeople” well known for their histories of submission and political opportunism, reject “massively” — in public demonstrations — the scholarships offered to them by the United States, alleging that the only objective of this program is to convert them into “counterrevolutionary leaders.”

In reality, the ruling system in Cuba is, itself, the best school available for teaching students to be against it.

The young people of today who thoughtlessly reject the scholarships will regret this missed opportunity once this absurd era of failed “Messiahs” and even worse “disciples” passes, and they will lament the lost opportunity to support the development of their country in a healthy and normal situation, when civic responsibility takes precedence over politicking slogans.

The current backwardness of Cuba is not the fault of the embargo, but of the lack of ability among its leaders and of the “socialist idiotology” inculcated in its citizens.