Atlantic Council Poll: majority of Americans support normalizing US/Cuba relations

[Mika]

The Atlantic Council just released a poll which found
that a majority of Americans, Floridians and Latinos
support normalizing US relations with Cuba.

US-Cuba: A New Public Survey Supports Policy Change (PDF document)
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/2014cubapoll/US-CubaPoll.pdf

[sabrina 1]

1. The rest of the world has passed us by. It's ludicrous that Americans' travel to other nations is

still restricted. Citizens of a free society should be able to go where they please. What is the US Govt afraid of? Still living in the past. It's a shame.

[Mika]

2. They're afraid of Americans having contact w/the evil Cubans on the evil island of Dr Castro ...

... and the realization that the Castro brothers don't do everything there. The Cuban people do.

[sabrina 1]

3. It's getting harder to demonize entire societies in this Global World we now live in. Younger people

have far more interaction with people from other parts of the world. This country has been very isolated from other cultures, receiving only propaganda about them from our government. But people of other regions of the world travel a lot more, and are less inclined to believe the 'evil' label we seem to apply to entire cultures when it suits the government.

Eg, I have friends in Europe who can't fathom why the US hates Cuba so much. Many of them have been there and absolutely love the country, the people and are puzzled by the attitude here towards such a tiny country. It seems so petty.

My feeling is that if you are the one who seems to have enemies everywhere, while everyone else seems to be able to get along, maybe it's time to start looking at yourself.

Not to mention that some of our close 'friends' make Cuba like a paradise in terms of human rights.