The Cultural Significance of Breakdancing: A History and Response to Recent Events

So break dancing won’t be in the next Olympics. Thanks to this lady who was god awful. It was embarrassing. It was sad and she got a zero on her score. But Let’s I really don’t think it should be in the Olympics at all the period because first of all, it’s for it’s an American. That’s American art. Founded in the in the boogie down Bronx. I’m gonna tell you the history of it. It came from A mixture of cultures. It came from the island of Jamaica. DJ cool Herc is one of the founders of hip hop. He brought the speakers to the Bronx that brought the community together and he still DJs did his day. A lot of Puerto Ricans, a lot of Hispanics were in the area of the Bronx and a lot of black people were in the Bronx. So it created a fusion of cultures mixed together created hip hop. And that’s where break dancing came from. It actually it was a way to diffuse violence instead of fighting each other because there’s a lot of gangs. In that area, instead of fighting. They did break dancing to battle it out be boy and that actually created a lot of peace. That was the purpose of hip hop. The credit was to bring the community together of all walks of life. You didn’t matter where you came from. You’d be white, black Asian, whatever. It brought people together and people dance and whatever. So it kind of spread it from the Bronx from the late 70s early 80s to are now around the world. So when I seen this lady dancing. It was kind of embarrassing, but kind of shameful because if you’re going to do an art form like that actually master it and get great at it so we can respect it. But look like she was a leech and opportunist and somehow she got this opportunity and completely was embarrassing and shameful. Okay, it was funny, but quite sad. All right now. Now you know the history of it. Now I guess you can see why people are upset about it. Like if you’re going to do something that’s not within your culture. At least learn about it and perform it extremely well before you perform it because this was quite embarrassing.