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Oxy’s interest in diversity can hardly be debated and while I support its attempt to expose its students to various cultures, I found last Wednesday’s quad performance of Brazilian street dancers very uninformative. Not only was I initially unsure of which culture the barely clad women represented, but I also found the unchoreographed ass and boob shaking inappropriate. While watching the performance and talking with friends about what we learned from the show, my friend Victor half-jokingly stated “I want to buy a ticket to Belize.” The inaccuracy of his comment clearly indicated a void in the exhibitions attempt to increase cultural awareness of that particular country. While I appreciate the attempt at an entertainment component for diversity week, I do have an issue with Oxy spending its money, on performances of that nature without regard to the bigger picture. I’m not saying the unique approach to conveying diversity was itself inappropriate; however it was ineffective for anything other than a good show. As a student representing another event in the quad that same day, whose activities were obviously aimed at educating the student body, I felt the performance undermined the integrity of the college.
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