South America’s New ‘Choke’ Dance, Disturbing?
According to a YouTube video posted in September, a new dance called the “Choke” is burning in South America. With nearly 300,000 total views, the dance is sparking a lively discussion on the Web.
The new South American dance craze appears to be the old school “bump” gone aggressive. The dance features a man dancing behind a woman (who willingly dances along), percussively pulling her toward him. The trouble is seemingly that the man assertively pulls the woman in the direction of his private area. The movement also shows the man pulling or “choking” her from his side, and at times, from his backside as well.
No information found on where exactly in South America the dance originates, or the reasoning behind the name “Choke.”
The “Choke” is sort of a hard case for hyper-masculine abuse of Black female bodies through dance, the not-so-shocking switch-up—the woman “choking” the man from the back is also shown in the video.
After a bit more online research, we found another video showing two men doing the “choke.”
The “choke” is certainly not the first sexually-suggestive dance ever invented. We’ve seen loads of youth movements stateside with bumping butts, gyrating genitalia, and shaking behinds. But has the “choke” taken it too far?
We’ll stop here and allow you to express your thoughts.
Is it a just an innocent dance or is it disturbing? Sound off!
Source: Cheryl Martin, The Insane Asylum
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I wasn’t disturbed by the dance but it is a bit unfair the girl has only one move to do, a bit boring.
This is NOT okay. Of course, there are people who will think it’s not problematic. Please…it’s got misogyny written all over it.
It was less disturbing than I thought it was, but I don’t find it completely misogynistic, I mean the dudes were going at it too. Did you watching the second video?? The dudes were going in AND switching places. I do think that the dance should possibly be done away with, but dances like these always come from the inner cities around the world usually. This is clearly in an inner city in some third world country, where some people lack the education and understanding that stuff like this isn’t ok. Am I the only one who peeped the first girl in pain after dancing with the guys?? She kept holding her back and behind…smh
… and I would appreciate people refered to developing countries instead of third world countries. That term is not used any more for obvious reasons.
Some developing countries have so much flavor that some developed countries’ people would never understand, in relation to that comment above.
That first video is in Buenaventura Colombia and I believe the dance is from there.
I see nothing wrong with this dance, although it is a little rough its not horrible. Got to have a little fun, and please don’t call it a third world country ew that sounds horrible!!!! Misogyny is a bad word to use, I see the girls having fun, there smiling yes the it might have hurt but its nothing too bad. Plus I see the girl bumps on the guy too lmao, its fun stop being to uptight people -___- shess y QUE VIVA COLOMBIA :D
“The “Choke” is sort of a hard case for hyper-masculine abuse of Black female bodies through dance, the not-so-shocking switch-up—the woman “choking” the man from the back is also shown in the video.” <– lmao you sound ridiculous ; honestly you should do your research better the "choke" mean bumping in spanish trust me i would know i speak fluent spanish. please don't make things sound worst than they really are!!!!!!!! one of the other user also stated the fact about grinding, now thats taking things to another level and even daggering, this video is simply bumping nothing more and having fun, oh and they are educated your making people from south america sound stupid oh i mean middle world -__- now that to me sounds more uneducated.
* third world, opps!!!
It is true.. People from ‘Developed’ countries think they are so much better, more educated… more this, and more that… they think they are much better all together and they forget that most of the ‘third world countries’ are in the list also of the MOST happiest countries in the world .. and this of course includes COLOMBIA which ranks in position no. 6 … and all of that is because people enjoy simple things… Choke isnt a dance for everybody, and until you haven’t tried it you will not discover that its actually fun … I did it in my recent visit to my city ‘CALI’ and against all my predictions about the dance, i laughted my a… off!!! All i will say is, if PLEASE open your mind and see further that your nose… The problem is not what this people do, it is what is in your MIND … and that has got nothing to do with EDUCATION, because for that we have better education all together in Developing countries, than they do in the rest of the world…
this looks like the Bump.(?)
Your story was really iofnrmaitve, thanks!