Rajasthanis love to sing and dance, and they seem to be naturally good at it. During the first days of data collection, some of the girls invited us over to their hostel. I felt sort of bad because we were staying in a hotel that we hadn't thought was particularly nice at all until we saw their hostel. They had no AC, and given the heat, this seemed like an unendurable hardship. To escape the heat, the entire dorm would drag their mattresses up to the roof and sleep there. Their beds were really hard, but that wasn't very surprising considering that I had lived in China before and the beds are pretty hard there.
After they showed us their room, they wanted us to teach them "American Dancing" and "American songs". We tried to explain that the only dancing we know is the type you do in clubs. (I am sure they could not picture as I think they have a life that is nothing like out friends in Hyderabad; all we did was go clubbing there!) They showed us their dancing and it was pretty phenomenal. Some of them sang and clapped while two danced. I guess this was from a movie and they learned the dance.
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Love the Video! You have such great memories to look back on~
Tracy xo
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