[Tango-L] no religion -- reply to Ron

[Amaury de Siqueira]

Ron,

Your lengthy posting reinforces my point.  There are so many assumptions in your message that I feel discouraged as i am writing these few lines.  It suffice to say that your ideas affirms a single view of what constitutes to be an Argentine and a tango dancer. Such ideas seems to come from an outsider's view and reflect a position of dominance (it does not matter if you have been to Argentine a 1,000 times..  your ideas are still filtered by your experiences). 


The most dangerous part of your behavior is that you really do seems convinced that your construct of what count as being Argentine and a dancer is the "right" one and can be so simply reduced to a few lines in an email.

Amaury

-----Original Message-----
From: tango-l-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:tango-l-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Tango Society of Central Illinois
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 3:02 PM
To: tango-l
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Tango the Religion

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:59 PM, David Thorn <thorn-inside at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I too have puzzled over this religious fervor.  If one looks for example at Lindy Hop, another
> street dance with no ruling body, it passed through the "style wars" (Savoy vs. Hollywood vs. West
> Coast Swing vs. ..) in a matter of several years.


A 'milonga' is a place or event where tango social dancing occurs. The
origin of the tango and the milonga are in Buenos Aires. The terms
derive their meaning from the culture of their origin. Within the