Ethnocentrism and opportunism

According to people related to sociology, “ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own. The ethnocentric individuals will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinction and sub-division serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity.”


Ethnocentrism may also occur individually as it's a sort of cultural or ethnic discrimination, or rather, a sort of sub-estimation based on fame, wealth, social class, power and culture. Unfortunately, however, this societal approach is part of human interaction where education and/or instruction are the best way to reach cultural assimilation and enculturation through socialization, a way to prevent any sort of discrimination. Moreover, many people don't consider discrimination broader as they scarcely consider that social position or social stratification may lead to discrimination.

It is common to see ethnocentrism in parking lots where an employee's employment may be terminated if a customer desires so out of social opportunism. That's happened to me on the 12th of July while doing my job well. That day, Lanier Parking Solutions Senior General Manager Manuel Rodriguez terminated my employment due to a customer's complain upon an event in which I performed my duty accurately with irrefutability. The main reason why my improper employment termination occurred was because, according Manager Rodriguez, the customer put his complain in several locations on the web. That's the reason why, apart my decision to ventilate this issue in a civil court of law seeking fair arbitrage, I will make know this issue, including the facts that provoked my employment termination, publicly.

The facts: “On Monday the 11th of July, around 8 am, I saw a customer removing a red cone to park his car by himself. I approached him and told him that the area where he had parked already his car is available from 10 am, and that he should not do so (remove the cone without authorization). I told him that for that time, it was fine. Then, in an authoritarian manner, he told that the area must be open before 9am. I told him in a professional way that he should go to the office for further information because I was an employee. I thought that the issue was over when he said angrily that he would remove the cone any time. Then, I told him he should not. He told me not to yell at him. I told him I did not although I was sorry if I had, I said! That was all!

Afterwards, the customer whose name I do not know yet, he's been complaining everywhere and as a result, I've had an employment termination.

I do not know, fellow friends what you think about this issue, but I'm sure you know I love you all! I will fight for a safe and fair decision.

The bottom line is that it's too much noise for a single thing! The complaining customer is taking too much interest in having me out of my job through opportunism beneficiated by a social position based on in the cliché “The customer is right!”



With love and friendship,

Sincerely,

Angel R. Almagro

Renaissance

How assured does feel my heart

By a magnanimous conviction:

The King of Lords was fairly smart

As all he framed with fascination.

Was not the most attractive Rose

In the primeval settlement,

The one from who love arose

Forwarding sweet enchantment?

In the whole Garden of Eden,

It was a flower far unequal

Being from Earth to Heaven

Jolly, passionate and spiritual.

Ebony, copper or ivory,

Who knows how was our Eve,

Whom God far from irony

Daydreamed, as I do believe!

Peerless as well as bright,

Her figure splendidly fabulous,

Either day either night

She had Adam fall amorous.

So genius the Master yet stands

Wizard of each bird, butterfly and flower,

As of Eve as well, all through His hands,

When out of you, thus, He did found her!



Woman's regard

How our heart is plenty of happiness and peace when such eyes put their regard on us!

The Cuban Mulatta

The great contribution of the Spanish in Cuban culture and civilization was the appearance of this sort of woman. This is a mid white and mid black woman. In Yoruba culture, she is the image of Occhun, the female Deity of fecundity and sexuality. She is the Deity that makes mad other male Deities, like Chango, the male Deity of thunders and war. Every Cuban woman has inside the soul and sensuality of a Mulatta.  So, when you visited Cuba, you wanted to remain in it!

Christine

Cristina / Christine

This is what we call a classic beauty. I took this picture some decades ago when she was 18 years old. She was then my French student in Guanabo Beach, in Havana. It's nice when we have had so many female friends. Because of this, one of the poetic books I've written in French language is called “Femme” (Woman). As I could not find a photo of Cecile, the woman I once loved so much and lived with the most, in her youth a very beautiful woman, the Queen of Beauty in her town of Guanabacoa at that time, the mother of my youngest son, (by the way, the mother of my oldest son was also a Queen of Beauty in her town of Cotorro), I decided to use Christine's picture as title page of my book “Femme”.

Happy New 2011

All my Friends,

I pray the Supreme may all your dreams come true as you wish, and that in this new 2011 everything around you and your family be better than in 2010.


And thanks for your every day beauty, elegance, love, friendship and relationship, personality and work loving.


Angel,

May this Two Thousand Eleven

For all my friends be

On Earth as being in Heaven

Guided by the Almighty

Where happiness and health

Would be common award

Like everybody's wealth,

A simple thing to afford

Angel

« Beyond the Adventure: A beautiful love", a story within my family

Four French planes, F-60, type "Goliath", in Cuba, in 1921

Following the interest of Cuban millionaire Anibal de Mesa in developing his country on commercial aviation at the beginning of the XX e century, in 1919 some French nationals came to Cuba to create the Cuban Aviation Company using six French planes, two Farman F-60 planes, the “Goliath”, and four Farman F-40 planes. These latter F-40 planes had participated in the WWI, as these French nationals had too, who three of them, Lucien Coupet, Léon Coupet, and Camille Jousse, had even fought in the Battler of Verdun during World War I. They were the combatants who were members of the aerial unit “l'Escadrille F-25”. This French aerial escadrille played a great role from the beginning this war, mainly during the Battler of Verdun, and afterward.

The French national Guy de Roig with two Cubans  in Havana, Cuba, in 1921

Once WWI had ended, these French people, National Hero of the Republic of French, were part of a crew who had been considered dead, due to an aerial accident while they had been performing the first long distance flight of the Farman giant plane “Goliath” from Paris to Dakar. They spent two weeks lost in the Saharan desert without food and water.

Léon Coupet and Camille Jousse in Cuba

In Cuba, they remained a litter more than a year, and the most important location during their stay in the Cuban territory was the Aerodrome of Colombia de La Havana, which became a real aeronautic fair because of the presence of the French planes. For these French people, after the battlers of WWI and the testing flight of the “Goliath” to Dakar, all these events being done without any rest, their stay in Cuba was like an adventure which took place under relaxing and warming atmosphere plenty of affection and happiness.

Guy de Roig and Geneviève's son and daughter

A Cuban woman, who was the person charged to cook for these French pilots, was the most important woman in that aerodrome of Columbia. Her name was Genevieve. She was married to the owner of a little restaurant built within the aerodrome where the French pilots and other technicians used to eat. The owner of that littler restaurant was a black Cuban man, and his wife, Genevieve, a beautiful woman of mixed race. They had two sons, Gustavo and Amelia. They were black too. The name of Genevieve's husband was Gustavo, as well.

Geneviève

One of the French people, Leon Coupet, and Genevieve fell in love each other. As a result of this loving relation, a girl was born. She was not black. Unfortunately, she was born the 4th of September of 1921, after the French nationals had left from Cuba. She never met her father. Maybe, Léon never knew that he was the father of Rosa, Genevieve's daughter.