VOA标准英语2013--Asian Americans Break Stereotypes Through Urban Dance
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2013年(六月)
Asian Americans Break Stereotypes 1 Through Urban Dance
Whether it's dancing freestyle in a cypher or dance circle, or a carefully choreographed 2 routine, when these dancers move their bodies, something magical happens, said Philippine urban dancer Michelle Salazar.
“My first mentor 3, he said dancing is like touching 4 the face of God. That’s just how I feel,” said Salazar.
Some call it hip 5 hop 6, others -- urban dance. It’s no longer just associated with African Americans or Latinos. Philippine American Arnel Calvario is one of the pioneers of Asian American urban dance. When he was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, he saw other Filipinos as well as African Americans and Latinos dancing in the streets of his neighborhood in southern California. In junior high, he said he surprised some African American girls who saw him dance.
“They’d verbally say that 'I’ve never seen an Asian guy dance like that,' you know. That was a pivotal moment for me. In one sense you can be kind of offended by that," explained Calvario. "It kind of felt like I needed to do something about that.”
In college, in the early 1990s, Calvario incorporated this uniquely American dance form into a Philippine culture show. He formed the dance company Kaba Modern and started a phenomenon where Asian American dance companies began emerging throughout universities in southern California.
“It quickly spread to the Chinese associations, the Japanese, Vietnamese...it was a really interesting time because within a year, it spread so fast,” he noted 7.
Lorenzo Perillo is teaching a class in hip hop dance at Cornell University this fall.
“It’s kind of like something that is seen as foreign to a particular culture and saying no, it’s not foreign, it’s actually something that we all do, we just don’t consider it; we just haven’t shifted our paradigm 8 yet,” he said.
African American Dineytra Lee’s paradigm shifted when she auditioned 10 for a hip hop dance crew.
“I go to the audition 9 and I see nothing but Asians and I’m like, 'what’s going on there.' It’s literally 11 a legitimate 12 culture shock,” she said.
What Asian Americans saw in their community for years was not represented on television until recently with dance competition TV shows where predominantly Asian American urban dancers exploded into mainstream 13 media.
“It was never so prominent as it is now. Now we’re all over," said Calvario. "And in these dance shows we did dominate.”
This not only breaks traditional American stereotypes of Asians being either martial 14 artists or nerds. Vietnamese Chinese American Kan Dang said the prominence 15 of Asian American urban dancers in the media helps older Asian immigrants see dance differently. “You normally wouldn’t tell your parents you dance cause they feel like it would be a distraction 16 from your studies, but now I think it’s accepted," Dang explained. "That it’s like a good stress reliever or a time to meet people in school.”
With social media, hip hop dance no longer belongs to any particular minority group. It has spread globally with dancers around the world expressing themselves through this form of movement.
- Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。
- It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调，我看了就讨厌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- There was some carefully choreographed flag-waving as the President drove by. 总统的车经过时，人们按精心编排的动作挥舞着旗帜。
- Achim had choreographed the dance in Act II himself. 阿希姆自己设计了第2幕的舞蹈动作。 来自辞典例句
- He fed on the great ideas of his mentor.他以他导师的伟大思想为支撑。
- He had mentored scores of younger doctors.他指导过许多更年轻的医生。
- The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
- The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
- The children had a competition to see who could hop the fastest.孩子们举行比赛，看谁单足跳跃最快。
- How long can you hop on your right foot?你用右脚能跳多远？
- The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
- Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
- He had become the paradigm of the successful man. 他已经成为成功人士的典范。
- Moreover,the results of this research can be the new learning paradigm for digital design studios.除此之外，本研究的研究成果也可以为数位设计课程建立一个新的学习范例。
- I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音，可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
- At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初，他们说他太小，但后来他们叫他去试听。
- None of the actresses we have auditioned is suitable. 我们试听的这些女演员都不合适。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- What is that, from some script you auditioned for in the '40s? 什么玩意儿是你40年代试的那些剧本吗？ 来自电影对白
- He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
- Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。
- Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.生病是请假的一个正当的理由。
- That's a perfectly legitimate fear.怀有这种恐惧完全在情理之中。
- Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
- Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。
- The sound of martial music is always inspiring.军乐声总是鼓舞人心的。
- The officer was convicted of desertion at a court martial.这名军官在军事法庭上被判犯了擅离职守罪。
- He came to prominence during the World Cup in Italy.他在意大利的世界杯赛中声名鹊起。
- This young fashion designer is rising to prominence.这位年轻的时装设计师的声望越来越高。
- Total concentration is required with no distractions.要全神贯注，不能有丝毫分神。
- Their national distraction is going to the disco.他们的全民消遣就是去蹦迪。