Culture
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Toronto Teaches West Coast Swing Five Days a Week, and One Site Maps It All
As an Amazon Associate, Raw POV earns from qualifying purchases made through links in this article.Toronto has group classes in…
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Live Performance Produces $54,204 Per Job, the Least in Canadian Culture
Statistics Canada splits culture into nine domains. Divide each one’s GDP by its jobs and the two at the bottom…
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Immigrants Report the Same Chronic Loneliness. The Gap Is All in the Occasional Kind.
Statistics Canada asks people how often they feel lonely, and the answers split three ways. Immigrants and non-immigrants report chronic…
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There’s Now an App for Toronto’s Latin Dance Nights
As an Amazon Associate, Raw POV earns from qualifying purchases made through links in this article.A web app called Realm…
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Toronto’s Busiest Brazilian Weekend of September
Three separate organizers, none coordinating, all pointed their events at the same September weekend in Toronto. Here is the full…
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Samba Reggae Workshop in Toronto for People Who Have Never Played
Tdot Batu has scheduled a beginner samba reggae workshop for Saturday, September 26 at 330 Geary Avenue: two hours, drums…
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UNESCO Lists Bachata, Merengue, Tango and Cuban Rumba. It Does Not List Salsa.
Four Latin American music and dance forms carry a UNESCO inscription: Dominican bachata, Dominican merengue, tango, and rumba in Cuba.…
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By the Fourth Generation, Half Still Identify as Hispanic
Latinos Lose Spanish by the Third Generation. Half Still Claim the Identity in the Fourth Somebody posts the question every…
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Chicano Was Chosen in 1969. Cholo Was Assigned in 1609.
The question comes up constantly, in classrooms, in comment threads and across kitchen tables: is cholo just another word for…
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Bolivia’s Indigenous Share Fell to 38.7 Percent. The Head Count Rose by 1.5 Million.
Bolivian dress is having its widest international run in decades, from a Paris art foundation to a skate collective in…