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Somebody had to say it. Stop making a distinction between Dominican #bachata and other forms of bachata. Bachata IS #Dominican 🇩🇴
🎯 Melanie Centeno
🎯 Melanie Centeno
@melanymovez: “MAKE BACHATA DOMINICAN AGAIN!!! 🇩🇴
CAUSE THIS IS NOT BACHATA!!
Nothing against these dancers because how they moved was absolutely beautiful. And they also are not aware of their participation of the white washing of our culture.”
CAUSE THIS IS NOT BACHATA!!
Nothing against these dancers because how they moved was absolutely beautiful. And they also are not aware of their participation of the white washing of our culture.”
“But I watched that video and I saw a fusion of about 4 or 5 different styles of Latin partnering with a Bachata basic here and there.
Can we vote on calling this something different?
Because Bachata is a cultural style that belongs to a people. DOMINICAN PEOPLE.”
Can we vote on calling this something different?
Because Bachata is a cultural style that belongs to a people. DOMINICAN PEOPLE.”
My former student Minlib Dallh, a #Dominican from #BurkinaFaso wrote an excellent dissertation on his fellow friar Serge de Beaureceuil and his mystical encounter over the ages with #Hanbali #Sufi of Herat Khwaja ‘Abdullah Ansari (d. 1089) 1/ 
This work was published a few years ago and stands in that excellent #Dominican tradition of theological and mystical engagement in fellowship with Islam and Muslims sunypress.edu/p-6431-the-suf… 2/
De Beaureceuil (1917-2005) had trained at the Dominican seminary at Saulchoir in Belgium (established in 1904) with major #Catholic thinkers such as Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895-1990) a significant influence on #VaticanII’s theology of religions 3/
Real interference in election:
#Lebanon, 1950s: CIA provided funds to support the campaigns of Camille Chamoun & selected parliamentary candidates; other funds were targeted against candidates who had shown less than total enchantment with US interference. williamblum.org/aer/read/156
#Lebanon, 1950s: CIA provided funds to support the campaigns of Camille Chamoun & selected parliamentary candidates; other funds were targeted against candidates who had shown less than total enchantment with US interference. williamblum.org/aer/read/156
Real interference in election campaigns:
#Indonesia, 1955:
A million dollars were dispensed by the CIA to a centrist coalition’s electoral campaign in a bid to cut into the support for President #Sukarno’s party and the Indonesian #Communist_Party. williamblum.org/aer/read/156
#Indonesia, 1955:
A million dollars were dispensed by the CIA to a centrist coalition’s electoral campaign in a bid to cut into the support for President #Sukarno’s party and the Indonesian #Communist_Party. williamblum.org/aer/read/156
#Vietnam, 1955:
The US was instrumental in South Vietnam canceling the elections scheduled to unify North and South because of the certainty that the North Vietnamese communist leader, Ho Chi Minh, would easily win. williamblum.org/aer/read/156
The US was instrumental in South Vietnam canceling the elections scheduled to unify North and South because of the certainty that the North Vietnamese communist leader, Ho Chi Minh, would easily win. williamblum.org/aer/read/156
