Havana Cuba. – If you were to ask me right now what is, in my opinion, the most marked characteristic of Cubans today ―or at least one of them―, with infinite regret I would answer that it is inconsideration. Well, what do children who disturb the tranquility of the block playing in the street, their parents, people who play loud music and those who “improve” their home ruin the neighbor’s have in common? Quite simply, none of them cares in the slightest if or how you are harmed by their behavior.
And since in the largest of the Antilles there are no laws that force them to behave correctly (nor, for that matter, officials to enforce them), the abusers and rude do and undo as they please. On the other hand, it is those affected, if they dare to protest, who suffer the consequences of their actions.
It is not difficult to discern that it is from the continuous and effective exercise of social and moral values that the essential harmony is born for the proper functioning of society and daily life. Unfortunately, in our country since 1959, a number of fundamental values for peaceful coexistence, such as respect, decency, integrity, honor, courtesy, honesty, honesty, loyalty, fidelity, filial love , altruism, generosity, kindness, empathy, responsibility, punctuality, solidarity, tolerance, sincerity, gratitude, compassion, industriousness and sociability, among many others, have fallen into disuse, especially among the younger generations.
However, a loss of values of this nature does not occur spontaneously, and even less so in as short a period as 60 years in the history of a country. In our case, this responds to a strategy carefully planned and put into practice by Fidel Castro, and later continued by his successors. A transcendental tool to break the function of the family as a value-forming nucleus were those campaigns from school to the countryside (otherwise mandatory, unless one was willing to give up continuing their studies or even find a worthwhile job). , where so many adolescents of both genders in full hormonal turmoil were ripped from the family bosom to spend several weeks toiling in agricultural work as unpaid labor and living in mixed camps with no other supervision than the negligent surveillance of a few teachers.
At the same time, with the use of primary school students in acts of repudiation, it was in turn achieved that the new generations acquired the mistaken impression that insulting and attacking others for no reason was normal, even well seen by the elderly. Anyone who has ever tried to scold a child for doing something wrong will surely have seen how parents, instead of correcting the child and taking the opportunity to teach him to behave, attack the victim, thereby establishing himself, generation after generation. , bad behavior.
I wonder how many of those who are parents today were forced as children to chant insults against the “Yankee imperialists” or to throw stones at a neighbor who did not agree with the regime. So that when the time comes to train their children, they are not capable of transmitting anything other than what they have learned: exercising their will at the expense of the well-being of others; and whoever protests, prepare to receive insults, ridicule, and even the occasional stone thrown at his house or against himself. And while Cuban men and women wear ourselves out in quarrels between unfortunate brothers, our common enemy gains strength and gains time.
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