Rennalls Case
Rennalls’ working for the company rather than for the Government in which his father held a prominent post was assumed to the effect of the company’s vigorous and liberal regionalization program which had produced eighteen Barracanians at the mid-management level. This is because the success of this timely regionalization policy had led to excellent relations with the government- a relationship which had been given an added importance when Barracania, three years later, became independent–an occasion which encouraged a critical and challenging attitude towards the role foreign interests would play in the new Barracania. Rennals has significant racial consciousness. This is based on his four years at London University. As soon as he returned home, he threw himself into politics on behalf of the United Action Party who were later to win the pre-independence elections and provide the country with its first Prime Minister. He assumes that Renalls’ ambitious did not lie in politics, for he saw that he could serve himself and country best by putting his engineering talent towards making Caribean Bauxite successful.
In the first storage, Baker just put some general sentences about the following conversation without directly address the point about Rennalls’ rudeness toward Europeans. Then, he saw Rennalls stiffen slightly in his chair and made some explanation to make Rennalls a little more comfortable, due to his racial conscientiousness toward Europeans. The explanation led Rennalls to consider the conversation maybe a friendly one at the beginning. Then Rennalls nodded and the conversation went on. Then Baker used an example before reaching the main point. So, without any judgment about the main point, Rennalls made no comment on the example. As soon as Baker finished the example, he firstly praised Rennalls’ excellent performance ever since. With Rennalls smiling back, Baker continued and addressed the point. Following by Rennals’ tense, Baker realized that if the conversation continued in this way, then nothing would gain from this conversation. Then Baker used another way to address the point. Still by first introducing an story, then the