Traumatic???
It was traumatic for him because he was so sad for the people of Cuba. It hurt him to those things that his countrymen didn’t have, and probably had never seen in their entire lives.
Raised in a rural small town I recall it was a big deal to travel 25 miles to go to a Pizza Restaurant...... And growing up I once traveled and saw for the first time a big dept store with an escalator.....I couldn't believe it! It's quite intimidating. One of the things people coming here see that's very hard is all the wasted food. You see they think of all those in their country that barely get by and often no food choices at all.
“Traumatic???”
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On several levels it could be traumatic?
Take yourself off the grid for about 5 years if you care to try it. Completely off, where someone actually brings you an extremely limited amount of food/products....no variety of any type, never giving you even exactly the bare minimum... and you cannot ask for more or you could get even LESS than they deigned you qualified to have.....
Then walk into a supermarket.