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Why can’t white men dance
worrying this might be a bit racist or on a par with “White men can’t jump” …great escapist film by the way. So I asked Carmen, “but what about Justin Timberlake…” says Carmen…..I don’t mean someone who has had a choreographer, and a trainer and so on. I mean the ordinary white male and free style dancing to something at a party or a dance or rave.
Renowned as I am for dancing down the aisles of supermarkets and putting smiles on faces, I am no dancer.
Is it a cultural and ethnic thing, I mean is it just that our arses are too tight (metaphorically speaking), or is it the freedom of the dance. Most of our modern popular music is derived from black american culture, which itself has its roots in Africa, and of course slavery. These beats, rhythms and melodies owe much to Africa and the time of slavery and emancipation.
Look at the popularity of ballroom dancing on the TV recently or the increase in barn dancing/folk dances. I have always loved these i feel more comfortable in dancing where I know what is going to happen, or someone is calling the steps and moves. It Is this framework that makes me better, not that I am that great at dancing to steps either.
When I got married to my first wife we had a barn dance in the evening and people loved it, no emabarassing dances and everyone could join in, I remember feeling physically exhilerated by the dancing.
So I get older it becomes more and more difficult, and my wife to be claims I can’t dance but quite likes dancing with me as it puts a smile on her face, I may not be that great but I am relatively uninhibited.
Get on up like a sex machine, or take your partners by the hand,… as they say
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One Response to “Why can’t white men dance”
Perhaps your article should be called ‘why can’t *straight* white men dance?’ From experience gay blokes are, on the whole, better movers than us straights.
As to why we can’t dance, well I think an anecdote from my younger years might be of use. When I was about 13 one of my best mates started going to the local under 18s disco. To look good on the dance floor she and a few of the other girls used to practice in their bed rooms.
Lads my age were either playing footy or hunched in front of our Atari STs, Amigas, or Megadrives.
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