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Spain or some other European country, because my reality, that every day when I walk
the streets or ride the bus, is racial diversity
(whites, blacks, mulattoes, Chinese, and
others) of which we speak with pride, but

reflect too little. Our national poet, Nicolás
Guillén, defined this reality by saying “he
who has some Congo in him, has some Calabar,” but one does not see this on our television programming.

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