Honoring the Cultures of the World in Less than 5 Minutes

[Kahalachan]

With this little youtube :)

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Hope you like.

Dances in order of appearance:

1. Chinese dance performed by deaf girls
2. Traditional African dance
3. Hip Hop/Interpretive
4. Capoeira
5. Native American dance
6. Belly Dance
7. Moshing
8. Cheerleading/Dance Team
9. Fire Dancing
10. Hula
11. Kabuki/Noh Theatre
12. Modern clubbing
13. Swing

[bigred]

Way to leave out whitey. :thumbsup: ;)

[shadron]

Way to leave out whitey. :thumbsup: ;)

Ah, everyone knows us whites can't dance. :D

Not like that, anyway.

[Gagglegnash]

Hi

Well - as for the comment about, "whites can't dance..."

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:D We CAN, just... not WELL. :D

[Zep]

And I thought this would be about yoghurt across the globe...

[bigred]

Ah, everyone knows us whites can't dance. :D

Not like that, anyway.But that's not a racist attitude remember, because it's only dissin whites. That's what I'm talkin 'bout

It (the clip) is odd though in that regard when you consider how many colorful "white" cultures were omitted (esp given that hip hop "dancing" was included).

[Morrigan]

To be fair, the moshers and swing dancers were mostly white. But yeah, no polka or Russian dancing or anything more traditional like that?

What I find more distasteful (well, that's a bit strong, I don't care that much about the video... let's say, "lame" instead) about the video is that it uses some especially awful modern pop/dance music rather than simply having the actual music the people were dancing to. Especially considering the message at the end that tries to glorify music.... Fail. I'm sorry, but I really don't like it at all.

[Ateius]

What about the waltz? Where is the love for waltzes?

[bigred]

To be fair, the moshers and swing dancers were mostly white. But yeah, no polka or Russian dancing or anything more traditional like that?

What I find more distasteful (well, that's a bit strong, I don't care that much about the video... let's say, "lame" instead) about the video is that it uses some especially awful modern pop/dance music rather than simply having the actual music the people were dancing to. Especially considering the message at the end that tries to glorify music.... Fail. I'm sorry, but I really don't like it at all.
With you on all counts. Oh well.

[Foolmewunz]

Way to leave out whitey. :thumbsup: ;)

There's a whole lot worthy of criticizing in the video and the choices. Affirmative Action is not the place to make a stand, though. (Even with tongue in cheek.)

Four out of 13 are predominantly white. Moshing, Cheerleading, Clubbing and Swing.

That's actually a somewhat greater percentage than the white population to world population ratio. Admittedly, the video comes over so crappy on my laptop that the cheerleaders could be any color, as could the clubbers (and black do actually do both "dances").

Why single out hiphop in quotation marks, and not "moshing" or "cheerleading", which are far less worthy of the word "dance" IMHO.

If you want to pick on numerical misrepresentation, then the top two countries (consisting of numerous minorities, I'll grant you) in the world, population-wise, are China (1.4 billion) and India (1.1 billion). That's a quarter of the population of the earth. One Chinese "dance" (more of a series of great tricks than dance, this is a famous dance troupe - they are all deaf) and zero from the Indian sub-continent.

I don't care about the distribution of "tribute to skin color". I just find some of the choices (and the choice of music, as mentioned by Morrigan) to be quite off. The Chinese troupe, as mentioned, are interesting to watch, but it's more an optical illusion than dance. I don't cotton to belly dancing and would've rather seen some other (than swing) ballroom instead. The hip hop "interpretive" was far from a good example. Noh theatre? Noh Thanks. Fire Dancing and hula? Seems over-representation of polynesia. Etc....

Where's ballet? Tap? Polka? Cossack dancing? Samba? Rhumba? Mambo? The inimitable Tango? Any of the regional dances of India? Dancing white stallions? The All Blacks' Hakka? And what about Gene Kelly dancing with Jerry the Mouse, huh?

[bigred]

Fair enough, in fact well said. I did also find it to be odd/weak selections (regardless of "race"), on the whole. Personally I would add a Riverdancin group.

PS Indians can't dance for squat.





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[CFLarsen]

Ah, everyone knows us whites can't dance. :D

Not like that, anyway.

Very true. If you want a laugh, visit Copenhagen during the Carnival.

And no, I don't participate. I know my limits....

[Wolfman]

Way to leave out whitey. :thumbsup: ;)

Ah, everyone knows us whites can't dance. :D

Not like that, anyway.

Hi

Well - as for the comment about, "whites can't dance..."

:D We CAN, just... not WELL. :D
I take exception to these comments. Whites are excellent dancers. As this video (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/954240/how_to_dance_like_a_white_guy_comedy/) more than amply demonstrates.

[Hokulele]

10. Hula




Technically, that is a Tahitian ʻōteʻa rather than a hula.