What Does “The New Way To Work” Mean To You? To have a chance.

It was a winter day, one of those cold, gloomy days when the last thing you feel like doing is opening the front door and facing the inescapable chill. It was one of those moments when the mind comes into its own. Tacking the inspiration from the concentration techniques oriental philosophy is so fond of, it would be compelled to alleviate the perception of cold generated by the weather’s unrelentingly efforts. As a result, I felt my body gradually being enveloped by a soft, pleasant sensation of warmth at the almost tangible thought of a hot drink. There was no need to shut my eyes for a sequence of vivid images ran before them. My hands were clasped around a large, multicoloured mug, filled to the brim a dark velvety beverage, whose strong colours belied its soft albeit energetic contact with the palate and tongue. Wrapped in warmth borne by its taste, something akin to an embrace, this organ of taste became a formidable source as time ticked slowly on, capable of conveying heat a peasant sensation to the whole body using the mind as it vessel. I roused my self from those warm caresses. However, I began to thing that as harmonious journey go – venturing into one of the worlds encompassed by the numerous flavours of winter – this one had a piece missing. Hot drinks, especially chocolate, are loath to be drunk alone. They are only free to express all their potential when enjoyed in the company of others, during an engaging chat, seated huddled up on a sofa or on the floor on a thick rug, with feet swathed in a heavy warming socks, surrounded by soft fluffy cushions, perhaps hugging one to yourself. Their summer counterparts, not least a glass of a good wine, similarly crave the same circumstances to express their qualities, do they not? although the gentle wetting of the lips, sipping from the glass dancing between your hands, occurs in quite different surrounding and situations.

 

I was alone right then and I need something that would connect with the need to be enveloped by warmth, but whose flavours would also add a pungent pinch of cheer. Hence I gave in to the warming sensation that comes with being a couch potato and switched on the television. Not content, I sat down on the sofa with a large bowl brimming with oven-baked chips. My hope was that the tantalizing flavour of the chips would merge with the sensation of an enjoyable television programme, stimulating my sensory perception to the full. I was to be disappointed, because the images broadcast by the factory of unreality jarred with the fragrance of those small golden clouds of scrumptiousness. While my mouth indulged in the delight of a flavour fest, my eyes perceived the disgust of words, gestures and pictures. I switched off the television, put down the chips-laden bowl and decided to write a story inspired by a famous TV programme. The act of writing was to be my cure, even though at that point my needs leaned towards some creamy, energetic food that could purge the sourness I still tasted, giving me back the tingling sensation of good taste. What sprang to mind was some authentic handmade ice-cream. I abandoned the idea because I wanted to retain the taste of that unreal food so that I could put them down on paper, in the hope of restoring order to the confusion that the perceptions of culinary taste and distaste of my visual perception had aroused in me, blending in an unexpected and undesired union. As strange and as inappropriate as it my seem to unit taste bunds and external sensory perceptions of a different nature, even our facial gesticulation springs into action as soon as we taste the sparking vivacity of real flavours and those linked to the perceptions of our senses.

 

Take the eyelids, which gently close and remain shut for a while when, with practiced delicacy, the tongue pushes the harmony of soft, flavoursome food against the palate the face remains relaxed and smiling while the eyelids lift again, revealing to our eyes the reality of the flavours that the tongue harvests from our lips in a show, circular motion. Then we have the opposite scenario, the dumb show. An image of any kind, something of really bad taste though, appears before our eyes. Our eyelids close suddenly and stay firmly screwed shut, whist the face contorts to reveal clear lines that speak loudly of unwelcome flavours, and not just the kind that are received by the tongue in the form of food. I ceased my literary toils after a while. I decided to submit my work to the attention of the editors steering the vision programme from which I had taken my inspiration so that I might have it examined and also obtain some form of  approval for a possible future publication.

About two years had passed since the day I sent off the envelope containing the hardcopy and covering letter to the editors of the programme my work was about, and I had yet to receive anything bar indifference. So I decided to send a fax an email in the hope that someone would have the decency to send me a reply of some kind, of any kind. I’d decided to give up, but then, one day, the images churned out by the television transformed my features into a mask of revulsion. My eyelids and the grimace of disgust spread over my face. At the same time, my mind was being permeated by that sour taste typical of adulterated food cook without the loving touch of an artist of good cuisine. Almost all the programmes broadcast, including the news, consisted of nothing but a succession of information and pictures portraying the shameless exploits of being forged from nothing and with no redeeming features, at the same time reporting on inane scuffles between strange characters.

 

Party to the quarrels were a series of individuals practically denying categorization who, with their expression typical of a person in the throws of madness, insulted each  other with all the class and intelligence of a myriad of cells at an advanced stage of decomposition. I tried switching channels, but the scene remained unchanged. The mass of known and lesser-known faces, which were mixed and reshuffled in almost all the programmes to make way for what had become the rampant monopoly of the “usual suspect”, continued to take possession of each image. It was at point that my taste buds began their dance of intolerance confronted with the bitter taste of the ignorance that pretends to be something it isn’t. I wondered why all that vulgarity and lack of good taste got so much airtime and visibility whist I who had submitted the fruit of my labours – unworthy perhaps, though nonetheless a concrete thing – was not even deserving of a reply. After all, all I was asking was to have my work looked at. That bitter taste of those ill-gotten gains prompted me to write a new email to those oh-so and professional people I wrote the editorial staff as though it were a physical person since I had no contact with any of its components. Firmly about politely, and without any offence I expressed my resentment. I asked a two year wait entitled me to a reply and to have my work analysed, especially since I was neither a mythomaniac or an adolescent going through an identity crisis – I was simply a person without any friends in high places who had submitted a piece of work to certain individuals who were supposed to be well trained and experienced by virtue of the delicate job they old.

 

A few days after the email, while I was enjoying the embracing taste of some excellent milk chocolate, the phone rang. On the other end of the line was the head of the editorial staff, who launched verbal assault, accusing me of offending her with the words contained in my email. I endeavoured to explain that, after two years of indifference, a little resentment might not be unjustified. Much to my amazement, the kind  of astonishment imbued with the sour taste of consternation, the courteous interlocutor proceeded to attack me with a vehemence and class rivalled only by that of a market stall holder touting for business, showing herself to be entirely unaware of my previous attempts to make contact. From the words shouted at random, I gathered that she was inviting me to send the manuscript again, should I still be interested in having it examined. I was tempted to answer her in the manner she doubtless deserved, but was stopped from doing so by that smoothly delicate, soothing and embracing taste of chocolate, which still coated my taste senses with a thin yet still effective film. In all probability, if the chocolate then provoking my taste buds had been of the more bitter, dark variety, with its aggressive, decisive flavour, the interlocutor would almost certainly have come-uppance in the form of a retort consistent with her manners. I sent the package with the typescript forthwith, attaching a parcel – a generous tray of with anyone on the editorial staff personally, and that I was merely miffed by the indifference continually perpetrated to detriment of those who have no “strings to pull”.

 

Another six month passed without a word. The television continued to broadcast the usual flood of  nothingness and vulgarity at all costs, left, right and centre. My sense of good taste, a trusted companion in every decision taken, had had enough. That editor, who I had learnt headed up the staff of many of the programmes dominated by the recycled “moving cut-outs” raked up again, was due for a lessons in style and good taste. I lost no time. I went to an elegant florist and sent my editor friend a wonderful composition with a complimentary note attached. With a sarcastic flow of words, I intended to express my gratitude to the person who had successfully established herself as master chef, blessed with a delicate touch and almost supernatural knowledge of the secret ingredient for each dish. I also wanted to tell her how much I admired the extraordinary class with which she managed to dish up stews, precooked and frozen foods smacking of genetic engineering. I finished off by advising her, before taking action, to try the sincere taste of a handmade cake. Her senses of taste, in this case, would certainly have guided her towards the execution of a simple action, which would have relieved her of any further annoyance. She would have been embraced by the sincere sensation of the flavour of old-fashioned handmade cuisine. Cooks espousing this culinary doctrine are ended artists who entrust their art to an essential ingredient, a pinch of heart, to add the secret touch to their dishes. Enfolded in such sensory ecstasy, the satisfied editor would write a simple email in reply. All she had to do was write the message: “We are not interested in your proposal, goodbye”. Do you suppose the fortune cookie with the reply was ever delivered?

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Words

We do not need words that guide us away from our hearts, they deceive the minds without us acting.

We do not need words.
Swollen rivers rushing, overwhelming everything and drag debris.

We do not need words, which are not to be, but build a world of false pride and stupid lies.

Us, we need to be and act.

Only after a man will understand that people should not be, can talk.
Every word will be a sense of what has been, not the promise of what will never be.

The Love – a poem without a answer.

Dream, fly, shake, then rejoice and suffer.
Is this the love?

Wake up and in a reality of indifference and loneliness, being with the bitter taste of the dream that there is.
Is this the love?

And fly higher than the stars, and then plunge into the abyss and attempt to find a light, its light.
Is this the love?

Being a little puppy shivering, at the mercy of wind and frost. Standing in a corner waiting for the warmth of a hug.
Is this the love?

When she is, despite all the blows, wounds, heart rejoices is strong and thickens.
Is this the love?

Eyes staring into space, tears as heavy as boulders, words that tear the heart, gestures, silences sharper blades and also continue to hope.
Is this the love?

The love is a key, and perhaps finds its strength in that mystery untraced.

Rest – a poem from the voice of the heart.

Light

My heart is asking me now disappointed a little rest. 

They took him and then left.
They have taken him and abandoned.
They’ve pulled kicking, slapping and a few words was like a spit.

He who has given and yet, without asking to be returned.
He was pulsating with beats and cries, is strong and stands up.
He now asks his rest.
He asks to be left alone to beat.

Even if no one wants to love him, who does not try to do.
He seeks only to beat and the heat of his corner to stay.
As a puppy to sit lacquer wounds of a heart in love.

The diversity and the other from us – Following the discussion on racism – final part.

from part 2.

Complicating the issue even more difficult is the fact that many interactions now take place in situations of confrontation is not equal.   

Differences exponential resource management has led some groups to believe that we are holding a cultural and social organization than the other, this creates conflict and cognitive blindness.
The situation in Italy is not free from these problems, indeed, not yet attained the cognitive maturity and therefore, the inability to achieve a civilization, especially by those who occupy roles with power and organizational decision-making, make the encounter with the alien a source that generates problems in continuous evolution.   

 It is in this context, where it is necessary a departure from the literature of only notions, that the methodology of anthropological intervention suggests a practical and effective way. With this type of analysis for individuals leaving the world of theories and the like were observed in the real world, in which the responses of individuals must be accompanied by daily interactions with others, with the outside world and with the complex structures of contemporary societies.   

Instruments of intervention anthropology suggest that the aspects mentioned above, such as religion, beliefs, customs, costumes and other features as the social structure and culture of people  must be known, analyzed and studied for a possible target respecting the culture of a person. In this case, concerning  the issue of foreigners in Italy, these interventions would enable the preservation of local culture, addressing the interaction with foreigners through hard and sudden impacts, but also of the foreign that is continuously tested by complex issues and articulate.   

In that sense, it becomes the inescapable presence of figures who work with these tools in order to coordinate the intervention on the ground and beyond.   

The use of this methodology will enable you to move towards a natural expression of the progress of a civilization. In this process, to be clear, the term globalization it would not make any individual with a single form of thought, which presumes to be, and it requires as dominant, in which those who are wearing different sections, like the stranger, is inevitably a source of a threat to personal integrity and structure of native society.   

With changes that lead to the growth of nations, globalization is understood as a process of rapprochement among different ethnic groups. Into the mechanism of action of the cultural wealth of each nation would be intended to be enjoyed by everyone else. In this way each group, while retaining its own merits, would approach the other by sharing similar traits and harmonizing the traits of diversity.

The diversity and the other from us – Following the discussion on racism – part 2.

From part 1.

“The Other from us” is a rich melting pot of information and lessons from which they can extract lifeblood that nourish our knowledge and our experience when we have the opportunity to address the processes of direct interaction.    

The encounter with everything that shows itself as “Other from us” must not occur according to a movement to guide the two poles in a meeting-frontal.    

The path must be parallel, and interchange of knowledge, through which it becomes possible to fully understand the differences, thus enabling the inconsistencies of shrinking and not become a source of never fighting a rich unstoppable decline of civilization.    

For example, it will become logical to judge a person for committing actions and not his actions related to what an individual is, or what a child of artificial stigma the least hasty analysis can represent him.
The impact with the Other from us, often the bearer of cultural traits the opposite to those of cultures, it’s happened and continues to take place in a society now stifled by those characters of ethnocentrism and cognitive blindness that do not allow you to open a window, albeit least, to that civilization of the third millennium and longed so much desired by people of previous centuries.

The impulses that characterized invasive and continue to characterize migration flows take away both people, and those aliens from the knowledge of those cultural features that distinguish an ethnic group. It becomes inevitable, in this situation, the lack of knowledge leads not to take into account the religious beliefs, beliefs, customs, costumes and anything else is part of the culture of a person. All this feeds false standardization, favoring the emergence of rejection and contributing to the worsening of existing problems or even to create new situations of difficulty.    

In all cultures, the different spheres of life of the community, if not all, are more or less connected with double ring on the dogma dictated by religion, with beliefs, or charismatic figures.    

The multidimensionality of social organizations that make these aspects make out certain groups for certain characters reveal that the articulated harnessed the actions of the entire group, but also individuals.
This makes clear the complexity of the encounter between ethnic groups, which are often the opposite.

The diversity and the other from us – Following the discussion on racism in 3 parts.

Racism - Black or white

part 1.

In light of the claims in the previous paragraph is necessary to begin to redefine concepts.  

This framework is essential, in fact, the analysis of the concept of “different” and “other from us” that  lead to one of the things that we can consider the origin of problems related to the presence of foreigners in Italy and other countries, the lack an adequate knowledge on the part of individuals of the eso-cultures that affect the organization of subjective categories appropriate to address diversity.

It is good starting from its concept of diversity.  

This concept has lost its original meaning, to purchase one that gives a negative, almost derogatory.

In a society of the third millennium in the cultural decline, more and more ethnocentric, in which segregation is the only answer to those who do not take or do not blindly subject to standardization cleverly designed, even the words are often distorted and tend to take on different meanings the original etymology.    

Diversity, different, with these words it means someone or something that does not have the characteristics of the subject endomorfe agent.    

The definition would seem right if the provision of egocentric about the endeavor did not add a second part of the whole implied, in which the other does not present the characteristics of equality is not worthy to occupy the top step of a hypothetical hierarchical pyramid, and consequently, is moved in a lower floor.        

This definition ignores the fact that a person who is not one of its cultural or physical characteristics, it certainly would have other, different but no less value than those of the individual agent.
It would seem fairer,  in the present state of things, make use of the term “Other from us” when referring to someone who is in an exo-sphere, which refers to an endo-world different from ours.
The use of this concept allows us to refer to psychological processes lacking barriers or limitations of any kind.        

Speaking of “Other from us” means to assume, already in the development of cognitive categories, which deals with a level equal interaction with a world which presents a different multidimensionality.    

In this case, no analysis is attributed to the diversity of any value judgments.    

It is precisely this assumption that lies behind some of the original words and concepts. They were spoiled and changed the nature of the sudden imposing of a company that makes implicit value judgments, not, in any interaction with people who do not show characteristics consistent with the guidelines dictated by the dominant cultures alleged.

The meeting with “the other of us” – One article with a different point of departure – final part.

from part 2.

In reality, individuals do not have a category open knowledge with which to manage the many forms of diversity.  

What is different is, indeed, something “eso”, outside, or coming from an external agent to the subject. It opposed to everything that is “endo” is located on the inside, in other words, created in our field of knowledge.  

Everything that belongs to the sphere “endo” does not generate any kind of problem. When should one arise, the solution would be found at his own internal, because everything that is in this hypothetical sphere is bounded by individuals placed in a specific category. In the context of this hypothetical space clearly delineated, the object takes place takes the characters well-defined, recognizable and usable by the party to which categories.  

The problems arise when individuals come into contact with something that belongs to the sphere “eso”. What is in this area, we can consider the external agent to the subject, not an immediate accommodation in existing categories, is not recognized by the subject as something belonging to the sphere “endo” and rich elements of popular and useful.  

It is known that all the unknown, which is impossible  to attribute generates recognizable features in most cases, fear or derision.  

The derision is a reaction to the diversity generated by processes of ignorance or simply play value judgments easily observable, for example, at school, office colleagues or simply making the case to the comments that we ourselves do when we see who is around.  

Against the fear of generating more complex mechanisms, they give rise to reactions, which take place in several steps.  

Fear is generated when the interaction with what we send a different input that we cannot  put in any of these categories.  

This shows not that we do not have any knowledge about this input.  

Lack of knowledge, or rather like the Latin we have ignorance, puts us to assume attitudes hostile, as this puts something unknown in any sort of action mechanism of defense, lead by the expulsion and exclusion “over the subject “, if not its elimination.  

The mechanisms put in motion by fear are not easily recognizable at the time of onset, but the subject to guide actions and obvious connotations cataloged second well defined.  

This happens because the alleged category open to diversity, in which place eso-input and considers a source of knowledge, does not exist. Rather, exists only in a theoretical stage mendacious, avoid direct contact and experience.

The meeting with “the other of us” – One article with a different point of departure – part 2.

from part 1.

Through a careful method of intervention to the multidimensionality of human groups as you can demonstrate the interaction between different groups can and should be through knowledge of procedures and alignment and non-invasive techniques.

It is clear, at least necessary that the knowledge to mold is complemented by anthropological knowledge that comes from other disciplines in the head to which we are sure that those of sociology and psychology studies.

Let’s refer to the figure of concentric circles in exchange cited above, and proceed to an analysis that starts from the smallest of the circles, in other words the individual. The intent is to show the ability to take a road different from the ones shown so far to tackle the meeting between foreign and native, but also to the internal relations of the native groups where some subgroups are likely to become foreign.

In accordance with the above, this analysis attempts to depart from what is considered the point of origin of the whole issue, even to be faithful to the technique of anthropological intervention that is rooted in his speeches a methodology of analysis that seeks deep aspects and is not limited to issues that appear on the surface concealing the true source of the problems.

We start from a concrete example that will help us better tackle the trail.

Most individuals when addressing issues in which we talk to foreigners seeking to show that they are free from any thought or action based on standardized models.

All this happens only in a phase that can be considered theoretical, because the information that reaches us from the daily show that the actions of individuals differ greatly from what was expressed at the time of theoretical outsource.

The core of the matter is placed in the belief that individuals have to have a cognitive category in which to place all that is perceived as different.

Certainly, a stranger is something different.

The meeting with “the other of us” – One article with a different point of departure – in 3 parts.

Racist, a word that scares pronounces, even more afraid of being called racist, so that to prove not to be, a person of black skin, we call color. Whites, mulattos, Indians, people of olive skin color, are not of color?

Belong to a deeply racist country like Italy where being ignorant that they can barely read and write, have difficulty guessing a simple and logical thinking that ooze their shamelessly silly Nazi ideology, are appointed ministers, who are allowed to form political parties, to formulate and present laws, is something that leaves you thinking.

This piece will not speak of racism in the usual way, will try, but, to address the topic from an anthropological point of view.

In recent years, we have witnessed sudden and forced changes in the geography of the people. It has led individuals to a process of interaction with multiracial movements that have contributed to the implementation of strong and sudden impacts. These processes have been articulated by massive flows of tax and non-diluted and as movements of slow amalgam.  

The groups are rapidly transforming their organizations, creating a multi-ethnic society which will inevitably generate a new type of issues not only communication but covering all areas of daily life.
This new scenario, which affects the organization of large and small groups, it inserts itself in a context of already existing problems. These issues are the result of the osmotic process that exists between individuals, the subgroup and the group to which they belong.

As in a game of imaginary concentric circles starting from the smallest of the circles and through a process of continuous exchange and influences it comes to looking for bigger and subgroups such as ethnic groups, without forgetting that it is dynamic in motion and especially not operating in one direction only.
The key to reading this new information to which individuals do not seem to be prepared, is located right in the subjective multidimensionality of individuals, even more in what you generate when they come into contact with others to form complex social organizations.  

Dissolve the nodes of this that the appearance may seem like a skein is a cumbersome task that requires careful analysis and accurate.  

The method of intervention that has shown it can perform this task is certainly anthropology, with its instruments is, in fact, can penetrate deep into a culture, bringing to light all that remains hidden to any superficial analysis or at least linked to solutions purely quantitative.  

By working so close you can come to the knowledge of the distinctive features, but also affinity, characterizing and in some ways approaching the various social groups.  

They shape a person and can create insurmountable barriers, whether or underestimated superficially analyzed.