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Mya Green: Questions

1. What are the major differences between the school systems here and in Cuba?

2. How are men viewed in Cuban society? Are dating circumstances the same? Did these values apply to the males in your family growing up in Cuba?

3. Because most of Cuba is more than 50 years behind in technology, do you see that to any disadvantage for teachers and their teaching methods?

4. What would you say is the most popular music in Cuba?

5. Is it true that most of the schools in Cuba have no running water? Is there anything being done about it?

6. What do you think will happen when Fidel Castro dies?

7. How many academic colleges are in Cuba?

8. It is understood that many children while they are young are taught to hate Americans in school. If not in rhetoric, in social attitude. When you visited Cuba, did you sense any isolation?

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