On 27th Oct I had my 2nd dancing workshop with some cross-cultural people from China (mostly), India, Korea, Austria and Russia, ageing from 20 to 28.
Some of them know each other already, but some are not, so in order to avoid embarrassment, I put the formations closely but not that close, since the moves are quite simple (I changed another dance from last time).
One of my friends who is really talented in dancing was in the workshop, however, at first I asked him to hide his talent (actually he didn’t need to do so because the dance was so simple) and when we filmed the dance, at the end of the filming, he started doing his freestyle stuff and everyone was cheering for him.
I only got time to interview one people right after that workshop, so I asked a Korean guy who was growing up in India (because I think he is quite ‘cross-culture’). It was so nice for him to join this workshop, and he was interested about my project. He said, because he works in a multinational company, he believes that such a cross-cultural community can help people eliminate prejudice and better prevent intentional crimes due to racial discrimination.
But as I talked with my tutor in tutorial, some Chinese girls, especially the Chinese girls who met some colored(?) men for the first time, are polite on the surface, but in fact, I can see from their words and deeds that they distinguish themselves from these men in their hearts.
In fact, I can fully understand these kind of thing, because at the beginning, I met these people in the same way. But maybe there is a part of my personality that is boy, so in my long time with them, I may regard myself more as a boy, which will reduce some estrangement in my heart.
Another reason is that there are boy group dance and girl group dance in KPOP. The Chinese girls I mentioned above are generally girls who only dance girl group dance, while I am a girl who also dance boy group dance, so this may be the reason why I can get along better with these foreign guys.
At the same time, I also interviewed a Chinese girl who helped me film. She said that one of her girl friend kept her away from an Indian boy because he was too ‘warm’. “Most Chinese girls think he has a very flirty social style”, so that they became good friends six months after they met. This is indeed the case, because I have also told my new friends in London who can be friends and who should not be contacted. But the Chinese girl found that the Indian boy was a good friend in her later contact. In my opinion, this may also be why Chinese girls may prefer to make friends with gays.
