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Cuba: Blogging Prejudice

Categories: Latin America, Cuba, Digital Activism, Ethnicity & Race, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Ideas, Politics, Technology, Women & Gender

Late one night, a Cuban taxi driver stops for Yoani Sanchez [1] because of the colour of her skin, but when he learns that she's a blogger, his unease reveals another kind of prejudice: “His spectrum of classification stigmatizes not only some shades of color, but also certain leanings of opinion…that also lead, on this Island, to displays of segregation and rejection.”