For some, life could literally become a cakewalk. In the days of enslaved labor, there were plantation songs & dances created by the slaves. One of these dances was the “cakewalk“. This was a lampoon of the European ballroom dances that their masters held. Every movement in the dance was overexaggerated in the slave’s simulation of [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘culture’
September 20, 2008
Female Circumcision Is Not Common Here
The fact that we can choose to circumcise our children is one reason to be happy you’re an American! Don’t you know that in some cultures the decision has already been made? I saw an interesting episode of “The Tyra Banks Show” that dealt with female mutilation & the victims of it. One young African [...]
