"The year of the decisive effort" was the name the Cuban Communists gave the year 1969.
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| @ElJull in 1969 "The Year of the Decisive Effort" |
Culture, simply explained, is the systematic way through which an individual or group of individuals interact within their context, in order to transform it in his/their own purposes. The understanding of the context is also part of the context and thereby part of the always contextual culture.
The structural culture of the institutionalization of Cubans manifests when the Cubans interact with their context by typifications and this behavior takes as "normal" and "normative" in the Castro-Cuban context. Anthropologically speaking, typification means here when Cubans, in Castro’s Cuba, acts as if they weren’t individuals with free will, like types/characters or roles in a play, according to how they had being defined by Castro´s regime.
For the Cuban government since 1959, a good Cuban is the revolutionary Cuban and the revolutionary Cuban the Cuban who love "The Homeland" and is capable to die and kill for “The Homeland” , while “The Homeland” is “The Revolution” and "The Revolution" is Castro's regime. How the Cuban people feel, in Castro’s Cuba, depends of how Castro’s regime perceives itself. Thereby the oppression of the people by the government in Castro’s Cuba is unlimited.
The structural culture of the institutionalization of Cubans manifests when the Cubans interact with their context by typifications and this behavior takes as "normal" and "normative" in the Castro-Cuban context. Anthropologically speaking, typification means here when Cubans, in Castro’s Cuba, acts as if they weren’t individuals with free will, like types/characters or roles in a play, according to how they had being defined by Castro´s regime.
For the Cuban government since 1959, a good Cuban is the revolutionary Cuban and the revolutionary Cuban the Cuban who love "The Homeland" and is capable to die and kill for “The Homeland” , while “The Homeland” is “The Revolution” and "The Revolution" is Castro's regime. How the Cuban people feel, in Castro’s Cuba, depends of how Castro’s regime perceives itself. Thereby the oppression of the people by the government in Castro’s Cuba is unlimited.
According to what Peter Berger and Thomas Luckman express in their book “The Social Construction of Reality”,there reality is always inherent to the human consciousness and assumes as constructed by words, Institutions by the very fact of their existence, control human conduct by setting up predefined patterns of conduct, which channel it in one direction as against the many other directions that would theoretically be possible.Institutionalization occurs whenever there is a reciprocal typification of habitualized actions by types of actors.
The contextual relation between “The Cadre of the Party” and the “Revolutionary Citizen” in the Castro-Cuba context is a clear example of institutionalization: “The Cadre of the Party”, dictate to “The Revolutionary Citizen” how to interpret and interact with the “Cuban history" and both types of Cubans identifies each other through the habitual actions of their types/roles.
Castro-Cuba is a nation of archetypes: “The Commandant”, “The Revolution”, “The Ideology”, “The Homeland”, “The Revolutionary”, “The Contra Revolutionary”, "The Worm", “The Imperialism”, “The Revolutionary People”, "The Traitor" etc. all of them with “Their unique roles” in “The unique history”.
Cubans in Castro’s society have major difficulties to transform their society, because the action of to transform Castro’s society isn’t exist in the unique manuscript of “The Revolutionary People”. According to the manuscript the task of “The Revolutionary People”isn’t to transform Castro’s society but maintain it. The institutions, composed by “The Revolutionary People”, but formed by “The Commandant” became unquestionable from the very first moment that the actors involved accepted to play the unique role of the “The Revolutionary People” with theirs unique tasks, under the direction of “The Commandant”, in this manner they became institutionalized, included “The Commander”.
In the Castro-Cuba context,Castro is neither free. From the dictator’s perspective he is “The One”, his views “The View” and his world “The World”. His functions are unquestionable, also for him. Fortunately Cuba hasn’t the geographical extension of USA, China, Brazil or Russia.
For many Cubans the Castro-Cuban society and their roles in it are as they should be. If the Cuban society transforms the Castro-Cubans also transforms. The problem is to what. “The Castro-Cubans”has being defined, since 1959, as absolute types with absolute typified rights and duties. To answer the question of what to be, the Castro-Cubans must think outside their types and beyond the play. Cubans must find themselves as independent characters.
But how to become an independent character when you have being deprived of your individuality under so long time, reborn and recreated as a non-independent character in an unquestionable play?
To respond these questions, another article is required.
Patria y Libertad
Julio César Soler Baró. Otro cubano en el exilio. OluwoOtura-Niko
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