what dance styles exhibit cultural appropriation?

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Cultural appropriation means to pick certain characteristics of the culture,while ignoring the original significance of it by belittling it as a trend.Its like taking parts of the culture ans using it for your own personal gains.For example,teaching bollywood style dancing without acknowledging the culture it has originated from.
Many hollywood singers have adopted twerking dance style to rebrand themselves and create engaging music videos.They keep using a culturally significant aspect of dance to popularize their identity and making it profitable for their own career.
Salsa is another dance style having roots in Caribbean and African cultures which has been used by many artists whether in movies or even dance classes,where it is only learnedand performed as another dance form by ignoring the history and origin of it to understand why this dance was performed by people belonging to that culture.It has become a trend to learn salsa,and people have been joining such classes,making it a profitable business.
Even hiphop dance style is so widely used in music videos for profitable gains,while ignoring its cultural significance.

Hayet Jeridi answered 1 week ago

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