Life is a Fabulous Blend...
Saturday, May 29, 2004
  Getting Jiggy with it
Today was one of the most tiring days of my life consisting of 7 strait hours of dancing and over 700 situps. But the natural phenomenon of the lack of connection between the energy in my mind and the energy in my body is occuring so hence i find myself lonely and bored but too physically tired to do aynthing. How depressing. But let me say in no way do i regret spending nearly all of my day in a cramped studio with humidity higher than FLorida itself coated by the smell of strong calogne, BO, and loud enough music to rob me of my healthy, youthful hearing. I have to admit that hip-hop is not my key. It is a weird feeling to know you stick out because you are "the white girl getting funky" but somehow that was ok by me and by hour 3, i was over the fact and was up front making a fool of myself. Then i heard a very talently but socially retarded black girl say "you can tell he's braking it down (in lamens turms, explaining it in detail) for the crackers". This got me started on another...oh watch out this one is full steam ahead...TRAIN OF THOUGHT!!! Why is it that people who are exotic or ethnic in any way shape or form are better at hip-hop than the unfortunate caucasion? The question baffled me but then i decided to look beyond skin color and chromozones and genes, and i found the answer. Its not because of their body, but because of their cultural history! Think about it, hip-hop is the dancing style of pop culture, culture that flurishes in big cities that contain a variety of people. But more than that, it came from the people on the street. Now dont get me wrong, i am not racist in most circumstances, and i am not saying that because somebody is colored they are pooror belong on the streets, but i am not into altering my opinion just to be PC. ALl of the downtroden minorities were the ones who started hip-hop in the first place and it has become more of a cultural thing for them, breed into their blood and containing pieces of their ORIGINAL culture. So, there you have it. White people cant dance. We have all odds against us.For once i wish we were the oppressed race, maybe then i could be in a music video....until later
 
Comments:
And you can also trace it back even further. Like, if television is to be believed anyways, African tribes had a lot more rhytmic dance with lots of percussion in their homeland. Maybe children just learn and see the rhythm from their parents, unconciously. Futhermore, dance in Europe, for the most part, is more formal and ballroom dancing and whatnot. I dunno.

Oh, and hi Kara. :)
 
That makes sense about the european stuff because if you think about it, most ballerina's are white, thin frail and european. This is when being of anonymous race screws you. thanks for the post lenny
 
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