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Any good places for a tropical beach vacation that don't involve being complicit in colonial exploitation as in e.g. Hawaii? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by BeamBrain@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I have a passport, but aside from some half-remembered Spanish courses from high school, I'm completely monolingual.

Sadly, the US prohibits travel to Cuba for vacations, otherwise I'd gladly put some money into their economy.

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[–] sweet_pecan@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

like people are saying Cuba? thats so fucking insane? you think Cuba is free to control their economy free from us influences and exploitation. like Cuba would be WORSE you get that right. your country is literally embargoing them now a significant amount of their economy has to be dedicated to the indignant tourism industry. making your country a white playground is not liberatory, its a humiliation forced upon the Cuban people. you cannot delude yourself out of your privilege, you will never be on equal ground to these people your country is strangling.

also I'm going to Cuba next year for vaycay (gonna tell the gov we are visiting family shhhh) heart-sickle I'm just not under any delusions about not having to consider my actions.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I don’t get it. As I said, if you’re so concerned about not doing an imperialism, the mainland US has so much to offer in terms of natural beauty, there has to be a beach somewhere ffs.

Also, if this is actually such an important ethical problem for you, you literally can’t go outside the mainland without a guilty conscience.

[–] sweet_pecan@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

yeah i honestly feel like this idea leads to leftists acting like drunk/belligerent assclowns in cuba. and you're right, we have like every typeof environment you can want without leaving mainland America. mountains, canyons, beaches, wetlands, you literally never need to leave to see them all. save the money, travel domestically and donate to cuba aid if you want to do the most ethical thing.