From Colombia
Belly Dance
DOTD – 001 – Saidi
I know we have had dancers before, but I wanted to start a new category: (Dancer of the Day).
Bellydance School – Harlem Shuffle – Arica, Chile
I was a teenager once, so I won’t point out how inane this looks.
I will point out that this show of delightful silliness demonstrates that the Arabs in Chile have been thoroughly Westernized.
Fashion TV – Bolivia
From Bolivia – Apr 25, 2012
Again, Arab culture thoroughly penetrates Latin America.
Again, the Arabes are heavily Christian. Very little Muslims among them.
Bolivia, according to Wikipedia, has only about 2,000 Muslims, out of a population of 10 million. This is equivalent to 1 in 50,000 people. Or actually 0.02% Muslim.
I cannot get a good estimate for the number of Arabs in Bolivia, though obviously, they have affected the culture.
The one exception may be Argentina, but even Argentina’s Arabs are about 90% Christian; and the Muslims in the Arab Community are usually non-practicing.
Muslims in Argentina are about 1% of the population; and that may be exaggerated.
