Latin-American v. Anglophone-American Seduction Culture

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Well, yes, but just to, errr...,ummm....., improve my Spanish! Yes, that's it!

Really, I would never force myself to watch shows like Univision's Caliente

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnVUIYzVv80[/youtube]

unless it meant a chance to listen to a bit of Spanish. I would MUCH prefer to watch Morris dancing.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-f3pPy2njE[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRnS98In3XE[/youtube]

Watching Morris dancing results in fewer trips to the bathroom for me.

In the Philippines, though, you aren't going to see anyone dancing anything that comes close to the guaguancó, unless you go to a go-go bar, upon which Filipinos generally look down.

Here is their national dance: the Tinikling

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SqZRQWC6AQ[/youtube]

Sometimes I can't help but wonder whether ArrantPariah has some sort of special interest in Latino culture

^^^^^Can't really blame him,the ladies and men are hot!
My daughter was dating a man from Brazil,she said he was such a gentleman and that he would open doors for her and treated her with respect and how gracious he was.She was quite smitten by him.
I think AP wants an companera

How is it that you knew about this but I didn't?

http://www.dallasobserver.com/2001-05-3 ... -town/full

It is a VERY long drive from the Northern states.

It looks to be something of a tradition for Texas boys.

^^^^^It's not that far a drive from here.My ex told me about it,why I don't know.But I went to Nuevo Laredo on vacation as a kid,you just walked across the border and all of a sudden kids my age were selling cigarettes.I was on vacation with bio-mom,she took me to strange places for a kid.

The Chicago area has lots and lots of Mexicans, who, I think, are among the more Conservative latinos/hispanics.

You hear a lot of the Ranchera music.

Vicente Fernandez
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A2ksLiT55U[/youtube]

Los Tigres del Norte
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng-eYklcmEM[/youtube]

I think that their main dance is the Cumbia
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9u8cnk0At0[/youtube]

One the one hand, Mexican parents seem to be rather strict with their daughters. On the other hand, a lot of Mexican girls seem to have a tendency to become grandmothers by about the age of 30.

Mexican girls tend to be a bit on the chubby side. Some South American countries, like Colombia and Venezuela, dominate international beauty pageants.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkrKw8QQtqE[/youtube]

In North America, most of us consider beauty pageants to be silly--most of the audience for the Miss America shows is women. In some South American countries, they seem to take la belleza quite seriously.

Hey! Cumbia is a Colombian dance!

Vicente and los Tigres del Norte are kinda big with older people. Even I know some of the lyrics of some of their songs, and Tigres have an especially distinctive musical style and choice of topic for their lyrics. They aren't particularly sexy though.

They take beauty pageants seriously down here

I recently watched a movie called Whore's Glory

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhgpTrgLYt4[/youtube]

The last third of the movie deals with executive ejaculatory administrators in Reynosa--another Mexican border town, but I don't remember seeing any Gringos in that part of the movie.

My mistake.

This one is unmistakeably Mexican.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE6qVVffM1Q[/youtube]

Here is a Merengue

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4evP5tVhPsI[/youtube]

That originates in Colombia, doesn't it? (Yes, I know the dancers are Argentines).


And, here is Cuba's Azúcar lady, Celia Cruz, with "La Negra Tiene Tumbao."

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imeXSRNRMeg[/youtube]

Even when she was old, she exuded sexiness.

Is this a new special interest? NYC is close by with lots of lovely Puerto Rican girls.
Maybe a trip to Spanish Harlem?

Yes, I've seen West Side Story

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7PIyIcCro[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOqBwH9yLqU[/youtube]

Ok I am going to clean up some things here.

Dance Origins

Cuba: Rumba (yambú, guaguancó, and columbia), Son, Casino, Bolero, Cha-cha-cha, Danzón, Mambo (New York however was the place the style was really refined and evolved into what it is today)
Others danced there that originated elsewhere: Merengue, Bachata, Reggaeton.

Dominican Republic: Merengue, Bachata.
Others danced there that originated elsewhere: Casino, Cumbia, Reggaeton

Colombia: Cali, Cumbia, Vallenato, Rumba
Others danced there that originated elsewhere: Merengue, Reaggeton

Puerto Rico: Reggaeton, and they formed their own style of salsa also, Rumba.
Others danced there that originated elsewhere: Merengue, old timers might still know and remember Danzón.

Argentina: Milonga (known to the rest of the world as Tango)
Others danced there that originated elsewhere: Cumbia mostly as far as I know.

Brazil: Funk, Samba no pé, Samba de Gafieira, Forró, Lamaba (the old style and the new) and many forms of afro-Brazilian dance.
Others danced there: Cumbia and Casino - if you're lucky.

In Mexico, many Central American countries, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Chile and others you will find almost all have adopted Cumbia as one of their main dancing styles - hence why you can find videos of Mexicans dancing Cumbia - it is very popular there. Cumbia is probably the most widely danced style you can fine throughout Latin America.
Apart from that every country and state has separate dances, local and folklore, that are still practised on a region by region basis.
And please note this is a quick overview, not anything complete.

In the USA, we have Square Dances

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzV7lTwqN8E[/youtube]