“Q: Curt: What’s your explanation for why white people are (typically) terrible

–“Q: Curt: What’s your explanation for why white people are (typically) terrible dancers?”–

Historically, European dance was an extremely sophisticated ‘pseudo-sport’ that combined the potential for association, bonding, and romance between the sexes and couples with formal public ritual that limited vulgar expressions.
If you look at gymnastics and it’s ballet or circus forms, its europeans who invented everything of sophistication.
So the observation that ‘white people can’t dance’ is only true in the sense of impulse dancing.
White people have developed extraordinary impulse control – especially the males. The innate capacity for impulse dancing is the inverse of impulse regulation. This is obvious in the sexes, and often the classes, but it’s just as obvious with races that reflect our varying degrees of neotenic evolution.
Which probably has something to do with a combination of factors, from neoteny to five thousand years of the only reason for capital punishment being cowardice – which usually means some version of ‘breaking ranks’.
I’m reaching here for possible origins other than our combination of neoteny and self regulation. But at least the example gets the idea across.

Cheers
CD

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