Tom Stermitz wrote: > Valerie, > > What you say may be true for you and your community, but there are > other places in the US where it works fine. Therefore, you can't > generalize across North America. You also can't claim it is a cultural > issue (ever been to a singles bar?) And, culturally, in North America > it is normal and common for people to nod to say hello. >
Tom and Megan are missing the point of the complaint. Unless cabaceo usage is used virtually exclusively, women cannot use it to politely _avoid_ dancing with people. This is because men will simply assume the lady does not get cabaceo, and walk up to ask. A proportion of people using cabaceo is not sufficient for this feature to work. _Everyone_ needs to be using it, and not using it needs to be commonly accepted as being rude or unthinkable. Myk, in Canberra _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
