Some paper said shared activities like dancing help students form and maintain friendships. So I came up the idea of whether collaborative dancing could help people who haven’t met before to build friendship.
I messaged some course mates and invited them to the workshop, and when I got their reply for coming or not, I secretly asked the same amount (in fact is only 1) of my friends as the “stranger” to my course mate, to test whether dancing could engage cross-cultural people. However, as I said, I asked only one stranger (thanks to Arnold), which means I got only one course mate (thanks to Yung), unluckily, they both are Chinese.
Anyways, we had a good time during the workshop. It was also fun for me to instruct absolute beginner.
So the response for me from Yung was, he was afraid to dance with a stranger (especially I didn’t tell him about this before), but when they started to talk, he was not that nervous about stranger. And he thought the personalities of the people in the circumstance are quite important, because my friend Arnold was also outgoing as Yung, they can easily start to talk to each other.
And from the less response from my course mates, I think I set the target wrongly. My targets should be those who already love dancing but never trying to engage with people from different culture.
My next step is already planned, for this Thursday. I asked two of my dancing mates, one is Chinese and one is non-Chinese, and ask them to bring me some friends from their culture.