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...Similarly, last summer's hit show Dancing With the Stars served as a remedial lesson in the notion of danse a deux. To 21st century kids, pairs dancing must at first have seemed as bizarre and uncool an activity as synchronized swimming. For a couple of decades, dance has been self-expression, of an orgiastic, onanistic sort, not connection and communion with a partner of a different gender. Yet the show demonstrated, as Take the Lead does, the blend of precision and passion in an expert dance number. One girl in Take the Lead, watching a couple execute...
...incarnation as BoLoCo facilitated by pricey consultants will force me never to enter its doors again. “The Wrap” screamed fresh, healthy food. “BoLoCo” sounds like a Mexican bathroom cleaning product.4. Arrogant sports fans. It’s uncool to talk about SATs. We’re embarrassed to even say where we go to school when asked, instead trying for “oh, a school in Boston.” Yet at sporting events we have no problem chanting “safety school?...
...child growing up in Pennington, N.J., Fareha Ahmed watched Bollywood videos and enthusiastically attended the annual Pakistan Independence Day Parade in New York City. By middle school, though, her parents' Pakistani culture had become uncool. "I wanted to fit in so bad," Ahmed says. For her, that meant trying to be white. She dyed her hair blond, got hazel contact lenses and complained, "I'm going to smell," when her mom served fragrant dishes like lamb biryani for dinner. But at Villanova University in Philadelphia, Ahmed found friends from all different backgrounds who welcomed diversity and helped her, she says...
...assertion that "at many schools it is now profoundly uncool to be seen as anti-gay" is extremely misleading. Not a single day passes without my hearing "Dude, you're a fag" or some other gratuitous homophobic remark. America's schools are not gay-friendly...
...those grand, global dreams that motivated the '68ers? So uncool. "Environmental issues and all those big ideas just aren't as important anymore," says Birgit Gugath, 25, a political-science student in Berlin. "We have to take care of ourselves." For most young Germans the biggest worry is unemployment. "No matter how good your grades are," says Böttcher, "there is no guarantee that it will lead to a job. We've become a lot more flexible than our parents' generation. But we also live with a lot more insecurity." Last week, Gugath tuned into a favorite radio show...