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littltimmy wrote:

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AlexDSSF wrote:

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Here's something that has been gnawing at me for as long as I have been watching DWTS: Many of the dances on DWTS are Spanish or Latin American in origin, such as the tango, the paso doble, the samba, the rumba, and the cha-cha-cha. But almost all of the pros who dance said dances on DWTS AREN'T Spanish or Latin American in origin. They're either Slavic or Anglo-Saxon in origin, and the only pros of color on DWTS are Cheryl Burke and Mark Ballas. Hell, I don't even know if there ARE any top-level Spanish or Latin American (or even Asian and African American) ballroom or Latin dancers. On SYTYCD, you have contemporary dancers of all races and hip-hop dancers of all races and ballroom/Latin dancers of all races. It's funny that the celebrities come from various ethnic backgrounds, but almost always the pros in any cycle are white.

Mark Ballas is of color now?

Anyway, most of the ballroom dancers on SYTYCD are also either eastern European or Mormon (Susie, Christina and Janette were salsa, and Karen was american rhythm, I think, so they don't count).

The only sytycd latin dancer who wasn't slavic or mormon, so far, has been Asuka.