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🗓️ 22 February 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Is it possible that a country’s policies can change the way people see themselves? How much of your identity is you — and how much of it is your country?
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0:00.0 | I just want to say like when did you know that you were going to be in the revolution. |
0:07.0 | I'm sitting on a comfy couch across from Louise. He's in his 80s, bald, and he's wearing a short sleeve button-down, plain white shirt. |
0:17.0 | The same shirt I swore I could have seen my father wearing. |
0:20.3 | But Louise is nothing like my father. |
0:23.0 | He spent his 20s armed, alongside Fidel Castro. |
0:28.0 | Yeah, what event was with your life? |
0:32.0 | I ask him, what event happened in your life to essentially make you join the |
0:36.4 | revolution. He says the fight started with all of us and then he goes on to tell me about |
0:46.9 | Cuban history but I'm more curious about him and his story so I pushed the question again. |
0:55.0 | Okay. |
0:56.0 | This event effect to her |
0:58.0 | to be a much. |
0:59.0 | Buchos, guanos, |
1:02.0 | is against the dictatorship, they were against Batista, but I want him to talk about himself. What did he think? How did he feel? |
1:15.0 | We go around like this over and over again. I ask him about himself, he tells me about Cubans, it's kind of frustrating. |
1:27.0 | And after an hour and a half, Hannah and I give up. |
1:31.0 | We leave the comfy couches without hearing Louis's personal story. |
1:35.7 | On another day we're leaving the house of an elderly woman. |
1:45.0 | Hannah was looking to interview her for a story. |
1:48.0 | The woman was polite but declined the offer. |
1:52.0 | She said her personal story wasn't really that interesting. |
1:55.2 | So things like that that it's like kind of refreshing because you're like, no you do have an |
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