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Why There's an American High School in Communist Cuba
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Some corrections. Baskin Robbins no longer exists on the base and there are two high school football teams there. They just play against each other every game.
Steven Martukovich nice info
Yeah they used to be everywhere. They were actually the first American fast food joint to sign a contract with AAFES back in the 70s (Burger King was #2) so that they could operate on military bases but once Dunkin Brands bought them they pulled out. God I miss Pink Bubble Gum flavor. Guess they don’t make it anymore. Can never find it anywhere.
The KFC also closed, it's some weird off brand chicken place now in the bowling alley.
Alexander Evans I’m surprised they don’t have a Popeyes since they operate the chicken restaurants on all the other military bases world wide on an AAFES contract.
spins i think
I didn't know Guantanamo Bay had a smaller prison for kids.
LOL
It’s actually a crapy school 30ppl in my 8th grade class
Michael Opnv no no it’s not a kids prison.
It’s a shooting range just the kids are the targets
Michael Opnv it doesn’t I should know bc I live there
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Guys I just want to point out that the third song is an absolute banger
Half as Interesting nice
I would just like to point out that every school should be communist
Ok sam
Cmd56000
Then I would just like to point out that every student would be starving.
not going to give the name of the song anywhere?
:(
Ironically, it’s the safest high school in the USA
Uh
I mean, they’re protected by the military
@@stubblycuber2729 school shootings. he's talking about school shootings
@Comrade NB Well in American perspective, it's an American territory... so maybe?
@Comrade NBCuba did give it to the USA
0:14 "Waterboarding at Guantanamo bay sounds super rad if you don't know what either of those things are". LOL
Duuuude it was soo cool I could barely BREATHE
You stole my joke. I was gonna say that :(
I mean... they ain't wrong...
SPRING BREAK WHOOOOO!!!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂
"We need this all of American culture in this place!"
"Just build a McDonald's, a KFC and a Pizza Hut"
rip gtmo kfc it died in 2017
Karate Dragon ROGAN
hi
Still here
Rip GTMO pizza hut. It died in September 2018.
"american style high school"
I could make a really bad joke here
Kids, check
Teachers, check
Building, check
*Guns*, ...
Check
Ooh it's so easy
Yeah, because it's a military base.
Did you shoot down the idea of saying it?
Yea right? It's clearly a shooting range
"American style high school"
Good to have a school in a military base so that if the Americans are ever out of guns they can just borrow some from the students
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Epic
In Cuba they don't shoot up your school they shoot up *our* school
ÀmæN cuz comunism
@@jcasas7876 iz troo
Waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay sounds super rad if you don't know what either of those things are.
That's such a old thing
0:14 He litteraly has the exact same thing written in the video.
Context matters
Pansy WB is done by military interrogators around the world when confronting extremists who'd rather die than live. Like it or not, there are cases where it's the only option to get the story straight from these guys.
Cliff Matthews They were talking about the joke... the joke is old
It's not American unless it has a walmart.
Actually there is a military company version of walmart...look it up AAFES
onewhoisanonymous WHAT?!
onewhoisanonymous Thank you, I will look it up right now. Have a great say sir/ma'am.
Yeah it has the NEX, it's actually fairly large
There's a McDonalds
Went to WT Sampson from 2010-2011 for 10th and 11th grade.
Surprised that most of the info in this video is correct, aside from track and field being the rec center, and there wasn't a BR when I got there.
A couple of cool tidbits, there's actually a decent size paintball field, a free outdoor movie theater that airs 2 movies a night, and a large population of Fillipino and Jamacan international workers that do most of the contract work.
Living there was really interesting, they really try to make it little America.
ayyyyyyyy my boy i recently was there for 6th-8th grade and they got rid of the KFC and Taco bell
Karate Dragon sign a petition, bring in Chick fil a
Does birth in Guantanamo make you a US citizen?
I was too young to attend school, I was born on the base. Got a State Dept. Record of Birth and the late Fidel Castro considered me a citizen. I do remember feeding iguanas fries from the McDonald's though.
What was the climate like in high school if you don’t mind me asking? I just feel like there could’ve been a lot of social pressure, clicks, judging the “weird kid” since it seems like a small enough area. Or did it lack the typical drama an American high school has?
The situation would be like if somebody helped you buy a house and then assumed they were allowed to live there, and started paying you rent despite the fact that you keep telling them to leave
More like if you took a morgage from a drug kingpin and then he set up meth lab in the basement and started to slip a few bucks under you bedroom door as rent and you where to scared to say anything about it.
Everyone there is a *_comrade_*
Yes Comrade
Indeed comrade!
KKOMRADE
Agreed, comrade
The Americans are poisoning the “comrades” 😤 😂
These skillshare promotions are as unexpected as a McDonald's in communist Cuba!
They're also a little inaccurate because you couldn't download the skillshare app in Cuba even if you wanted to, almost the entire app store is blocked there.
So, totally expected?
earthtoanouk
That’s why he’s almost always sponsored by nordvpn
Cuba isn't a communist country so yeah, pretty unexpected
“Welcome to Guantanamo High” would be a tv series i’d def watch
I actually go to school on ramstein, but I live in the village right outside it, since germany and the us have good relations
Wolfhide's oofergang K-Town’s better 😉
I was about to comment something similar to this, except for KTown😂
looks like I am outnumbered 2 to one, I don't really care too much for our school's rivalry tho
All the kids there better like Rammstein!
Sembach gang
Wonder how they teach about the Cold War there
Abrahan Cruz like any other American school would. It's US territory.
"Remember kids, comunism's bad, period. Mkay?"
Bird_Dog that’s pretty accurate
Bird_Dog it is
I hope you were joking because if not
Even if this was not "real communisim" then that makes it even more if a failure
When your beloved ideology cannot even be set up properly or be implemented on its first steps without ALWAYS fucking up then like I said it makes it more of failure than your "fake communisim" which lead to misery of millions
You would be advocating for something that has a very high chance if fucking things up
So progressive
ale Solis
What makes you think I'm advocating comunism?
It has proven to be pretty much unworkable. So advocating it would be kinda dumb, right?
My comment was a dig at the lack of nuance often seen among us-americans when it comes to comunism.
It's just "everything that smells even the faintest of comunism/socialism to me is bad, bad, bad and must be condemed to the deepest circle of hell!"
Some ideas the comunists have are actually quite sane and apealing. Like that wealth should not be concentrated in a small oligarchy, but instead shared fairly by everyone who is contributing to it.
A market economy is probably more effective in the majority of situations than a command economy. But I very much reject the laissez-faire approach of unrestricted, predatory free market.
Because it will only benefit the rich, and concentrate even more wealth in their pockets.
I went there! For elementary school in 2005. I only lived on the base for about 6 months so I remember very little of the school itself but it was definitely a standard American elementary school experience. My fondest memory was that the jungle gym at the playground was the most elaborate I've ever seen (but perhaps that's only from the perspective of a then 6 year old)
In Communist Cuba, student teach school.
FutureNow not a bad idea actually
Math learns you
Communist Russia: *_TRIGGERED_*
You watch wendover productions? Damn homie
Luke O'Brien Heck yeah. This is HAI, though.
I went to school on base at Ft. Meade, MD. Back then, I met up with a LOT of military brats who either grew up in Ramstein or were even born there. We'd always ask if they spoke German, they were like, "what? No, of course not!" What was it like in Germany? "Just like it is here!". But then we'd get German Foreign Exchange Students, and they'd be like, "so, what's the good club to go to here?" "uhhhh, America doesn't really do Under-18 clubs." "Wait, WHAT? WHY?"
Sounds like Russians in Baltics states they are here but dont know anything bout us lol
Sembach gang over here
"You can learn knife skills."
Oh cool!
[shows guy chopping celery]
Oh, nevermind.
"Water activities at Guantanamo Bay."
Sounds fun.
Student:
My school is surrounded by a massive anti-personel mine field
My former AP US History teacher used to work at that high school. He had some interesting stories to tell; one that sticks out is the one about the one clothing store they had. Sometimes they'd get a shipment with a new style of polo or something, and since it was the first new piece of clothing available for months, he'd of course buy it and wear it the next day. However, like half the boys in that class would be wearing that same shirt too.
Do not know if this best fits Hai or Wendover but my question is: Why does HSBC have its name on every walkway in a every commercial airport in the world?
"In communist Cuba"
Oh I see, I thought you meant the _other_ Cuba.
I mean Guantanamo Bay, in a sense, IS the *other* Cuba.
Cuba has never been a communist country, nor will it ever be.
A “American” style high school on a military base.
*loads gun*
I’VE HAD EN-
They're not wrong it is very "American"
"[...] exactly like any high school within the US [...]"
minus the school shootings
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SRoFV does it have school waterboardings instead?
Well it's a challenge doing s shooting inside a military base. To much weapons to pick. Should i get a ship, a APM or a airplane? The choices you have to make.
Any particular school in the US is extremely unlikely to have a shooting. You may think otherwise because every school shooting that does occur gets media attention. That media attention is what motivates people who are otherwise just depressed and suicidal to shoot up schools or other places where self defense is highly restricted.
Dude....(/s) tag might've been necessary, it would seem.
"learn the things you want to learn on skillshare", like how to break out of prison....
Wait...
*GUANTANAMO BAY HAS NO CHICK FIL A OR DOMINO'S?!?*
*_N O B O J A N G L E S ! ? ! ? ! ?_*
Btw at 1:42 the person you zoomed in on isn't Castro. That was a different rebel leader. Castro was on the far left of the picture next to the guy wearing the suit.
While in UK Air Force bases (I've only been on RAF bases - I don't know about naval or army) we have Spar shops which makes you know that you are on an RAF base because there is no Spars outside
Oh yeah I forgot about Spar shops...
The base in Daegu, Korea even has the residences powered by 120v (whereas in the ROK it's 220) so the troops and their families do not require a converter. I've been to that base, it's fairly convincing. You can also see into it with good detail from Apsan with a pair of decent binoculars.
Also there's a golf course.
*Liberty Prime Online*
Justin Y. play bookworm
Justin Y. Do you comment in beauty videos because I can’t find you there
Justin Y. Hi
Can this get more likes then Justin y. 🤔
Justin Y. I see you everywhere...
Amazing as usual. I really enjoyed the subway and airport episodes and I would love to see you take on the geographic economic factors behind chosing a site and time for a space lunching
God these videos are getting better and better. You make me think things I’ve never thought about or care about are interesting and cool. Good work man
Sam, thank you for always saying "If you..." exactly the same near the end of the video, so I know when advertisment starts and when its time to quit
I actually watch these videos to see how they connect every topic with skillshare smoothly
This was actually super interesting and probably something I would have never known.
Also, that 30 second history lesson about the Spanish American War made so much more sense than reading about it back in school.
i lived there for a couple of years. i remember the beach sucking cause it was more gravel than sand & they had fences to keep the iguanas out.
Another great video as always 👍👍👍
ur mom thanks for telling me, I probably wouldn’t have even checked 😝
So this means those high-schoolers can use the hyperbole "school is like prison" and it won't seem weird at all, and they will graduate not knowing where Cuba or the USA is on a map or a globe.
Julian Parsons Our school ain’t prison bruh.. ik it looks like it but damn we mostly all born in the states
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If I am watching a video and see a HAI video in my recommended I just ditch whatever I am watching
This reminds me of how my grandparents give me cheques for Christmas instead of cash knowing I couldn’t be bothered to cash them in
I worked in Guantanamo Bay for 8 months last year. I loved the base and the people there. I would definitely go back if given the opportunity.
Steven Martukovich are you from military officer or ordinary civilian?
Jamaludin B civilian contractor
Spent a month at Guantanamo back in 1982. Very laid back place then. Completely opposite of what was depicted in "A Few Good Men." Interestingly we had three Cubans defect while I was there. I'm sure much of it has changed since then.
German and American houses look similar... these houses would also normally fit into Germany. 3:17
I wonder if there is a 1997 Lexus SC 300 in Cuba.
Do Skillshare have a course on escaping from Gitmo?
haddockman30 gtmo*
Really cool they build this American town and school so they wouldn't feel homesick but also, half the fun of living in another country is experiencing another culture.
His sponsorship transitions keep getting better and better
James Franco would make the best Fidel Castro, if there's ever a movie made on him that is.
He acts as though Spain might not have come back and attempted to re-establish control over Cuba. An independent Cuba at the beginning of the twentieth century would have been easy pickings for the Spanish. Were we supposed to defend Cuban sovereignty from American shores? That would have gone over well.
Did Germany and Japan "agree," with quotes, to host American bases, since you brought them up? Or is this just grandstanding because you think we're somehow fascist?
Well, Germany and Japan DID agree to them voluntarily in a peace treaty after you know, WW2, when they were the fascists.
0:46 Wow, what's that map from? I love that sort of maps
that fucking transition was so smooth tho tbh
I´ve actually played basketball against the team of the American high school in Wiesbaden/Germany (It is the headquarters of United States Army in Europe (USAREUR)) with my Sunday league german club team.
They absolutely butchered us (we only scored once in the entire match and they tuned off the scoreboard at half time), but man they´ve got some REALLY GREAT sports facilities!
There is also one McDonald’s in “Cuba” or Guantanamo Bay....anndd while I was typing you explained it.
and you still posted the comment dafuq?
I can’t waste my thought. 😀
Maxwell Garcia So as to ensure it doesn’t die of loneliness??
Guantanamo's High School is surrounded by the top arsenal, navy ships, air force aircraft and a crap ton of people holding high caliber guns as well as other sorts of firearms.
Nothing wrong with that
You probably wouldn't make this mistake now but Guantanamo Bay isn't a US "territory" which has a specific legal meaning (Puerto Rico and Guam are territories); one of the reasons the W Bush administration chose it as a site for the infamous prison was that being under US control but the technical sovereignty of a hostile nation, Constitutional protections afforded to anyone who steps onto US soil didn't apply and neither did the possibility of offending an ally.
By "accidentally" I think you mean he realized that the whole Communism thing wasn't good for the economy so even he had to cash a check.
Ikreisrond Either way, all those governments seem to have a habit of not working. (Even if true communism has never been implemented yet then I doubt any potential future government will ever implement it in the future anyways)
Ikreisrond *"B- b- but that wasn't real communism"*
Look, if your beloved ideology can't even be set up in the first place, then it was even more of a failure than this supposed "fake communism" that killed millions.
Pinochet wasn’t any better
Ikreisrond I can appreciate you go to colloge
superdog logan nobody is saying he was but at least he was honest about it instead if selling this "utopia"idea
Ever wonder how Fidel Castro looks exactly like Justin Trudeau? 2:05 the similarity is uncanny. Really activates my almonds.
There's actually a theory that Trudeau's mother slept with Fidel Castro and cheated on Trudeau's father and Castro is Trudeau's father.
Asking for a friend of course but if you were born on the military base do you have dual citizenship Cuban/American? In case times have changed this would have been about 30 years ago...
I live in awe of your sponsorship transitions
"If you are ever invited to Guantanamo Bay, DONT GO" cracked me up
Well this was perfect for me since I’m Cuban. Thank god my relatives left for the US during the revolution!
I would not use a Cuban flag if you clearly so hate Cuba.
Otto Von SocialistUK I don't think he hates his home country. He hates the fuckwads who took it over and run it. I'm pretty sure if Cuba went back to normal, many Cubans would probably go back. After all, it's their home.
Otto Von SocialistUK they usually love Cuba but hate the totalitarian communist regime
Otto Von SocialistUK, the Cuban flag does NOT represent communism. It was created WAY before communism even made it to the Americas. It was created in NYC by Cuban exiles during the Spanish American War. It represents the fight for independence and a free Cuba from imperialist Spain. Not communism. The red represents the bloodshed of those who fought for independence. And our last sign of hope nowadays for a return to a democratic Cuba.
pokecrafter2201, yup I hate the regime.
Man..they could make a pretty good movie out of this concept
I lived there from '88-'90, and left in my senior year. While football was a terrible idea to play with the Sailors and Marines, you should have seen the soccer games...
your title is wrong...Cuba is not communist anymore..they recently changed their Constitution...
Summary: the US wanted to keep this small piece of land so they built a school for snot filled pokemon obsessed teenagers
Fun fact: Guantanamo Bay is home to *two* prisons!
- Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
- W.T. Sampson High School
My phone is listening to me, I just asked my history teacher about communist Cuba yesterday.
I for one am all for small children playing football against soldiers. If nothing else, It will teach them that life isn't fair and that sometimes in life you were just never meant to win.
Steven W agree
Yeah teaching is only useful when they can use that lesson in real life. This wont teach them anything but injure them also making playing football pointless in the first place since soldiers doesnt win when they injure kids or win against them.
Risk:you get injured. And not like scraped knee injured. I mean like broken bones and torn ligaments injured.
Reward: They learn a lesson about fairness that they could have easily learned without the risk of injury.
Steven W I also want them to get brain damage and a shortened life span. That'll teach them that life is unfair.
hell yeah lets have some trained killers who likely also know gorilla warfare fight some scrawny high school students im down for this, netflix.
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Quarter as interesting
"There's even a Pizza Hut"
All hail to Gorbachev!
If I were an American soldier I would hate how our bases embrace bland kinda dystopian looking suburban "architecture" instead of local architecture, or something that looks aesthetically pleasing
It has a elementary and high school so what does the government do for middle school
Liam Rondelli take a guess
5th and 6th grade are probably considered elementary school on the base while 7th and 8th are high school. They do this in parts of asia and europe.
Light Yagami thx dude because in North America at least middle school is 6th, 7th and 8th grade also death note was amazing until Netflix butchered it with the live action movie they made
Liam Rondelli i agree whoever played me was trying to hard to be an edgelord teenager.
It’s all one school there making a new one for us
Do they have american style school shootings there too to give the kids the full American school experience? I mean they got lots of guns laying around.
the guns are heavily regulated
So almost every country has American-Accredited high schools in them - in fact, oftentimes there is more than one. In China, there are American schools in Beijing, Shanghai, etc. so if you consider China to still be communist technically Cuba isn’t the only one.
Why don't they have several sports houses with their own teams for various sports and kids are randomly assigned to a house when they enroll. This way there can be competitive sports teams. This system worked pretty well at the schools I went to, even though they also had school teams for the competitive sports made up of the best players in all the house teams. (this also allowed the house vs house season to serve as extended tryouts for the school team)
i thought people in there are weed high lmao
GTMO is the most boring place on earth!!!! The whole base is a prison lol
Daniel Weatherly Atleast the movie theatre is free.
Today kids, we learn the technique of drowning simulation, also known as water boarding.
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a comment saying justin y has actually more likes now than a comment by justin y
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CreeperPL justin.y is the timelord of TH-cam comments
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Abage well most TH-cam comments are already cancer so yea...
Please you people need to stop worshipping these people, all they really do is comment a lot.
Do they have school sho...oh nevermind, it is near a freakin Army naval base.
SeeASquared *military base
The transactions into the sponsor are so good. I thought the sponsor part was part of the video itself. Lmao
hey i lived at Kadena! base housing sucks there (luckily i lived off base). Ramstein is known for being really good at sports, in case you wanted to know. Lakenheath HS travels by bus to play them all the time. neat how we can have a whole american sports system within europe.
The sad thing is the students being taught in Cuban schools probably out-perform American kids.
FutureNow why is that sad?
then they go and live off 25 bucks a month
FutureNow out perform them in starving and being oppressed
coolguy3100 actually Cuba has one of the best medical schools in the world, and it's literacy rate is 100%...so yeah
Zweks Auz ackchyually the US dominates the rankings for schools in every category while Cuba isn’t even top 100 and we aren’t starving.
"Communist" Cuba, there has never been a communist society tho
what?
@@strafe9564 what?
That's background music is really distracting. It was hard to concentrate on what you were saying without focusing on the upbeat music. I think you need to pick a track that plays a simple melody instead, so it doesn't overpower the material you're delivering :)
And I (an American) went to primary school in the middle east. My dad was stationed in Saudi Arabia and I went to Primary school in a military base in the middle of the desert.
Why do i watch it? I am not an American.
wow already 1k views in 4 minutes
Implying that only Americans would watch a video on America .-.
Maybe you're a Cuban with a VPN.
wow y so many comments
+jezza neither am i a cuban
Cockmeat sandwich time
Fachri Maulana indeed
Best movie ever lollll
I wonder how it feels to go to school next to the most notorious and infamous prisons in the world.
Not everyone flies in. US. Navy ships come there to. And some of the houses used to be cement blocks.
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I just realized... The logo for this channel is the history channel logo turned diagonally.
Can you imagine how lit Veterans Day would be there
They aren’t veterans...yet.
As a military brat myself I can confirm that they are pretty tame