There have been several American movies made about kids wanting to dance and conservative parents wanting the dance-crazed teens to stop...Footloose, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Breakin' 2 - Electric Bugaloo, How She Move, the list goes on and on...
What serves as entertainment to us, may be an actual struggle somewhere else. Women are not allowed to dance in public in the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Iran. Musicians from Myanmar, China, Somalia, and Cameroon have been imprisoned or killed because of their music.
Read these stories about the darker side of music and dancing around the world.
A. See Freemuse.org - a website dedicated to highlighting music censorship around the world
B. The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
C. The Dancing Girls of Pakistan
7 comments:
Thats wrong the guys can dance but the girls cant, but the girls can dance, but they said it is sexually abuse to do the dance.
I dont like this story because boys are taking other boy's to hotel rooms and sexual abusing them for two dollars and the kid Omid was letting other boys go in him jus for food i would just find a whole different to get food for my famuily but would never do what he was doing
I read the story about the dancing girls in Pakistan. I was amazed how they were getting murdered just because they were dancing and singing and dancing in public. It's sad how they murdered them girls. I think if you have talent and your not afaird to show it then who is anyone to tell you you can't, who is anyone to kill you. I wish I had some type of control or power to change that I will.
Afghanistan-
To me the story about the boys is so disturbing and makes me question everything that is going on and why people do what they do.
The story of Omid is so depressing and disgusting. It makes me sad because the mother don’t know what to do and is worrying about the next meal while her son is doing the only thing he know. It makes me sad just talking about and the fact they call it a tradition! And it is not trying to be stopped is senseless; they play like they don’t know that it is going on or know how to stop it. “If they really don’t know what is going on” it is because the boys are scared. I believe it’s a mistake started that is going to be hard to stop because this is how they make a living…
Pakistan-
I thought that was stupid for killing a girl because she dance and didn’t understand the "law" or whatever system it was. This make me realize that what seem okay to us is wrong in other parts of the world and apparently I would never understand what it is like for others but, just know how it is kike for me. I believe we take America for granted and I’m lucking I was born where i was because i would rather deal with what i have here than somewhere else...
The dancing boys of Afghanistan-
I think thats wrong to make boys dance for men in girls clothes. They say "everybody has their on hobby", I honestly think thats not a hobby at all, thats just nasty. Thats wrong that the police want do anything because they say it does'nt exsist. I also wonder why they make boys dance for men, why they cant make womens dance for men. This kind of tradition going on makes me think twice about moving of the U.S.A or even KC.
I read about the girls dancing in Pakistan. I would never ever think its right to kill peole period just for dancing. I really think its wrong becuase they kill the girls for dancing when mostly girls are known for dancing. i dont think it was right for them to murder them girls at all and if i could c hange it i would
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