Identidades in English No 4, December 2014 | Page 28

just as it is superficial to suggest that these abnormal waves of migration by Cuban provincial
dwellers actually fit within a common dynamic in
underdeveloped countries, in which the poor descend on the capital cities to improve their lot.
Such a view may be very convenient for the government but does not take into account that the
migration phenomenon in those other countries
does not cause the resentment, fear, and even notable aversion that it does among us.
It is incredibly unfair, sad, and dramatic: after
having been manipulated by the government to
the point of debacle, the people from Havana and
the East find themselves stuck with nonsensical
discrepancies and a worsening situation of clashing concepts which are old and ideological and
never really meant anything more than loss and
disunity for both groups. Of course, regionalism especially the childish controversy between residents of Havana and the Eastern Provinces