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This 8 page paper discusses Fernando Ortiz’s theories about the impact of sugar and tobacco on the life of Cubans, and the authors who had an impact on him. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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so doing, created an entirely new way of looking at culture. This paper discusses his theories in brief, and in particular, the impact others had on him. Discussion Ortizs book
Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar, focuses on the way these two crops are related to one another and what they tell a reader about life in Cuba. In fact, he
begins his book with a fable in which the characters are Don Tobacco and Dona Sugar; for it is in the "amazing contrasts I have observed in the two agricultural
products on which the economic history of Cuba rests" that Ortiz finds the history of the nation (3). Cuba is the only Communist country in the Western hemisphere, and
for that reason is often looked at with dismay, horror or fear by North Americans. But they should not be put off by the regime, which appears to be coming
to an end; the island nation is a fascinating study and perhaps a lesson in what can happen when people allow corporations to get control. With the latest Supreme Court
ruling (January 22, 2010) that corporations can spend as much money as they like on political campaigns, the United States may well be facing the same kind of horrific conditions
that plagued Cuba when the sugar manufacturers took over. At any rate, Ortiz writes that he wants to see the term "transculturation" substituted for "acculturation," which was currently in use
when he wrote (Ortiz 97). "Acculturation is used to describe the process of transition from one culture to another, and its manifold social repercussions" (Ortiz 98). But he prefers his
own term transculturation, which is his way to describe the "extremely complex transmutations of culture that have taken place here, and without a knowledge of which it is impossible to
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