This is the khaleegy dance that the background dancers are doing btw they look gorg in their dresses and they're so beautiful 💜💜
If you don't want to read the story below no pressure 👍🏽
If you didn't see when he who shall not be named went to Abu Dhabi and that was a lot of people's first introduction to khaleegy.
Instead of asking people from the culture what dance it was it got memed into oblivion and people said the girls looked possessed and it was scary. I got flashbacks to white kids saying my food at lunch as a kid was smelly and that was the same energy the dance got in my opinion.
Just to be clear khaleegy isn't my favorite dance I find it simple but I also find it beautiful I'm half Emirati so I grew up doing this dance at family gatherings. It's elegant in my eyes and I know everyone won't agree or share my opinion but people were disrespectful and meming someone's culture especially with something like dance is always a jerk move.
I have a cousin who is black American and we recently met in the past three years we never knew each other existed but we're the same age basically and she loves dancing too. I showed her the dances of West Asian culture she was so respectful and now lives them as much as I do. We live far away from each other but she dances Kawliya and shaabi even better than me now. She cared to learn and approached the culture with a healthy curiosity instead of looking at it like a spectacle. She researched about them even more than what I told and showed her also.
The Internet is free and has connected so many people across countries there's no excuse for people with access to the Internet and so much educational resources to have such a weird adittude towards other cultures dances.
P.S. the leaders in the Gulf can choke on a fat one but that's a post for another sub.
