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Local Customs: Chinese Neighbourhood: both languages
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  • At the Chinese neighbourhood, the streets name is written in both languages: Spanish and Chinese. Barcelona was the name of this one.
    En el Barrio chino, el nombre de las calles esta escrito en ambas lenguas, castellano y chino.

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    Local Customs: Cuban children
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  • Well, as everybody knows, Cuba is not a rich country. Its population suffer a lot of needs and restrictions. But there is an important difference with other Third World countries: children in Cuba are extremely well looked after, all of them go to school and this fact it is not usual at other countries. Cuba take care of their children and you can see them doing lots of activities. The ones at the picture were training Tai Chi with their teachers, near El Capitolio.
    Todo el mundo sabe que Cuba no es un pais rico. Su poblacion sufre muchas necesidades y restricciones. Pero hay un diferencia muy importante con respecto a otros paises del Tercer Mundo: los niños de Cuba estan extremadamente bien cuidados, todos estan escolarizados y esto es un hecho poco frecuente en otros paises. Cuba cuida de sus ninhos y puedes verles haciendo muchas actividades. Los de la foto estaban haciendo Tai Chi con sus entrenadores, cerca de El Capitolio

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    Local Customs: If you can read Spanish...
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  • Walking around Havana streets you can be easily amused because of a number of reasons. One of them is the almost surrealistic posters you find in the street. Apart from the political ones, which are peculiar enough, some of them hide a kind of contradiction, like the one in the photo: who has ever heard of urban agriculture?
    Paseando por las calles de la Habana, puedes entretenerte por una buena cantidad de razones. Una de ellas es los carteles casi surrealistas que te encuentras por la calle. Aparte de los politicos, que ya son bastante peculiares, algunos de ellos esconden una contradiccion como la de la foto: quien ha oido hablar alguna vez de agricultura urbana?

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    Comments for hojasdehierba about Havana
    penumbra Wed Oct 10, 2007 01:02 UTC
     I didn’t know that there was a Chinatown in Havana. Much of the rest looks like a step back in time to 1959.
    MalenaN Sat Nov 11, 2006 08:46 UTC
     Great tips and photos from Havana! I'd really like to go there one day, it looks like a beautiful city!
    Havaname Sat Oct 7, 2006 23:46 UTC
     Hola!! me encanto lo que escribiste, estoy totalmente de acuerdo, La habana es unica.
    budapest8 Fri Sep 29, 2006 16:33 UTC
     Enjoyed your pictures of buildings in Havana! Please do translate the texts as I would love to read what you wrote, even a short note..Tim
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