Cuban Americans

Armando Christian Pérez, Pitbull, and Joy Mangano Are Putting The Cleaning Industry on Notice With CleanBoss

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

America’s most celebrated female inventor and product creator, Joy Mangano, and international superstar, entrepreneur and motivational speaker, Mr. Worldwide himself Armando Christian Pérez, Pitbull, are now partners.

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  • America’s most celebrated female inventor and product creator, Joy Mangano, and international superstar, entrepreneur and motivational speaker, Mr. Worldwide himself Armando Christian Pérez, Pitbull, are now partners.
  • This fight is personal for Armando and he’s paying homage to his late mother as a co-owner of CleanBoss.
  • “I went from cleaning houses with my mom to partnering with Joy Mangano and CleanBoss for quality household cleaning products,” said Armando Christian Pérez, Pitbull.
  • Be part of the cleaning revolution now at ShopCleanBoss.com and join Joy and Armando on this mission to a cleaner clean.

3 myths about immigration in America

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Friday, June 30, 2023

Yet migration is an actively debated but poorly understood topic, and much of the conventional thinking and political rhetoric about migration are based on myths, rather than facts.

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  • Yet migration is an actively debated but poorly understood topic, and much of the conventional thinking and political rhetoric about migration are based on myths, rather than facts.
  • I often work with immigrant populations in my job as a family therapist and as an acculturation scholar.

1. Immigrants don’t want to learn English

    • While the U.S. population represents about 5% of the total world population, close to 20% of all global migrants reside there.
    • An overwhelming number of these immigrants are learning English, despite public perception to the contrary.
    • Immigrants and their children learn English today at the same rate as Italians, Germans and Eastern Europeans who emigrated in the early 19th century.
    • According to U.S. Census data, immigrant adults report having better English skills the longer they’ve lived in the U.S. And from 2009 to 2019, the percentage who could speak English “very well” increased from 57% to 62% among first-generation immigrants.

2. Immigrants are uneducated

    • Contrary to popular belief that immigrants moving to the U.S. have minimal education, many of them are well educated.
    • Over the past five years, 48% of arriving immigrants have been classified as highly skilled – that is, they have a bachelor’s degree or graduate degree.
    • Immigrants from these places tend to prioritize the virtue of the learning process and the joy that comes from attaining an educational milestone.
    • That doesn’t mean highly educated immigrants can easily slide into high-paying jobs.

3. The best way to adapt is to embrace US culture

    • Policymakers, therapists and educators who offered services to immigrants adhered to a narrow understanding of acculturation, which encouraged immigrants to adapt to their host country by severing themselves from the culture of their homelands.
    • Then, in 1987, psychologist John Berry proposed an acculturation model outlining new strategies.
    • According to Berry, immigrants should strive to retain elements of their original cultural identity while also adopting a new cultural identity that folds in American culture and values.
    • Technological advances have made it far easier for immigrants to maintain ties with their original culture.

Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida

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Monday, June 12, 2023

In Miami, however, they’ve become part of the local parlance.

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  • In Miami, however, they’ve become part of the local parlance.
  • According to my recently published research, these expressions – along with a host of others – form part of a new dialect taking shape in South Florida.
  • This language variety came about through sustained contact between Spanish and English speakers, particularly when speakers translated directly from Spanish.

When French collided with English

    • They’re all over English vocabulary: “pajamas” from Hindi; “gazelle” from Arabic, via French; and “tsunami” from Japanese.
    • During this period, more than 10,000 loanwords from French entered the English language, mostly in domains where the aristocracy held sway: the arts, military, medicine, law and religion.
    • Words that today seem basic, even fundamental, to English vocabulary were, just 800 years ago, borrowed from French: prince, government, administer, liberty, court, prayer, judge, justice, literature, music, poetry, to name just a few.

Spanish meets English in Miami

    • Fast forward to today, where a similar form of language contact involving Spanish and English has been going on in Miami since the end of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
    • But the point is that there is a lot of Spanish – and a lot of English – being spoken in Miami.
    • First, people alternated between Spanish and English, sometimes within the same sentence or clause.
    • This set the stage for the enduring presence of Spanish vocabulary in South Florida, as well as the emergence of what some people refer to as “Spanglish.” Second, as people learned English, they tended to translate directly from Spanish.

A new lingo emerges

    • There were “literal lexical calques,” a direct, word-for-word translation.
    • In Spanish, “carne,” which translates as “meat,” can refer to both all meat, or to beef, a specific kind of meat.
    • “Thanks God,” a type of loan translation from “gracias a Dios,” is common in Miami.
    • In this case, speakers analogize the “s” sound at the end of “gracias” and apply it to the English form.

The Miami-born adopt the calques

    • But Miamians rated most of the local expressions significantly more favorably than folks from elsewhere.
    • But rarely do we pause to think about how these changes take place, or to ponder where dialects and words come from.
    • “Get down from the car,” just like “dandelion,” is a reminder that every word and every expression have a history.

'Get down from the car' is an expression you'll probably only hear in Miami. New research explains why

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Friday, May 12, 2023

If this expression doesn't sound familiar, you're probably not from Miami.

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  • If this expression doesn't sound familiar, you're probably not from Miami.
  • It's the result of a common phenomenon that happens in other regions of the world when two languages come into close contact.
  • In this case, Spanish sayings are being "borrowed" and directly translated into English — then passed down and used by generations who are bilingual.
  • "When we conduct research like this, it's a reminder there aren't 'real' words or 'pretend' words.

GARDEN STATE PARKWAY SERVICE AREA RENAMED AFTER HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE AND SALSA LEGEND CELIA CRUZ

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Garden State Parkway just got a little sweeter.

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  • The Forked River Service Area was officially dedicated to salsa legend and 2013 New Jersey Hall of Fame inductee Celia Cruz.
  • "We are pleased to officially dedicate the Celia Cruz Service Area," said New Jersey Hall of Fame Chairman Jon F. Hanson.
  • Like the rest of the service areas, this stop will also feature other New Jersey Hall of Fame inductees.
  • The Celia Cruz Service Area will feature inductees specifically related to the category of Public Service, including General Norman Schwarzkopf, Buzz Aldrin, and Clara Barton.

MAYRA VERONICA PAIRS HER VIBRANT NEW LATIN DANCE/POP SINGLE "VEN" WITH AN EMPOWERING, MULTI-IMAGE COVER PORTRAIT BY INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED POP ART VIRTUOSO LUCA VALENTINI

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Internationally renowned artist Luca Valentini does artistic rendition of singer Mayra Veronica's new song cover.

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  • Internationally renowned artist Luca Valentini does artistic rendition of singer Mayra Veronica's new song cover.
  • By design, its clever lyrics can also be interpreted as two lovers thinking about each other and longing to have a good time together.
  • Valentini has long had a knack for striking images of voluptuous feminine beauty, and he works wonders with Mayra's striking black hair, gorgeous face and curvaceous body.
  • "Ven" is being pitched as a potential candidate as the theme song for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Miami-Based Presidente Supermarkets' 2021 Expansion Includes 7 New Stores In Florida And The Launch Of A Wholesale Store Concept

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Friday, August 6, 2021

The new warehouse distributors concept, Omax Plaza Wholesale, will be housed in a 100,000-square-foot building on 24 acres in Kissimmee.

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  • The new warehouse distributors concept, Omax Plaza Wholesale, will be housed in a 100,000-square-foot building on 24 acres in Kissimmee.
  • Together the seven stores and Omax Plaza Wholesale will generate more than 500jobs and represents millions of dollars in economic investment, often in low-income neighborhoods.
  • The first store of 2021 opened in January at7653 S. Orange Blossom Trail, in Orlando, Florida.
  • Presidente Supermarkets will open three stores in Orlando, two in West Palm Beach, one in Pompano and one in Miami Gardens, plus the Omax Plaza Wholesale store.