4 Apr
2016
4 Apr
'16
4:10 p.m.
While I am relatively new to contra, and just called my first dance this
weekend, The Baby Rose... I'll have never considered gypsy a term related
to a race of people, nor did I know it was applied today to a group of
people called Romas.
However, my general position on terms that have both discriminatory and
non-discriminatory meanings is that the meaning needs to be derived by
context.
Before reading the discussions here, I had only considered the meaning of
gypsy as related to wandering dancers... Not a particular ethnic group.
Perhaps my view has been naive.
While I am sensitive to cultural issues, until someone comes up with a term
that captures not only the physics of the move, but also the flirtatious
nature of it, I will probably grimace any time someone uses a different
term. Orbit, no handed swing, whatever... Until something emphasizes the
flirtatious eye contact it will fall short in my mind. It is more than a
figure, it is a figure with an attitude. :)
I am not necessarily arguing for the use of gypsy, but I hope someone comes
up with a better term than what I have heard so far.
On Apr 4, 2016 11:36 AM, "Aahz Maruch via Callers" <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016, Michael Fuerst via Callers
wrote:
Ron Blechner:
You happen to be wrong about that. Any time you're tempted to use
"nobody" or "everyone" when talking about people, you're almost
certainly
wrong.
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3. That perhaps the use of "gypsy" as a term isn't as bad as non-Roma
self-identitying as "dance gypsies". Roma wander because they are
persecuted or can't find work. When we talk about "dance gypsies"
beig wandering from place to place, we're comparing our having fun
traveling to various dances to the widespread persecution of an
ethnicity (the worst being the Holocaust).
Maybe you do. No one else uses such bizarre logic.