Havana Cuba. — What would Che Guevara, who aspired to the new man, have said if he, when he was writing Socialism and the man in Cuba Would you have seen seven-year-old girls dancing in your school what they call “the toletón”?
The new sicalíptica dance, similar to the “perreo”, is all the rage in Cuban schools, including primary schools.
On April 4, in the midst of the festivities for the anniversaries of the Union of Young Communists and the Union of Pioneers “José Martí”, parents and teachers happily filmed their daughters and students dogging, having fun and chanting the reggaeton rhythm from The Dance of the Toleton.
The use of very aggressive codes of marginal slang and explicit sexual allusions causes this music to be rejected by the national media and causes Abel Prieto to raise his discourse on “cultural colonialism”.
A few days ago, a journalist from rebel youthin an article titled Every music in its placeshowed a sanctimonious horror at the generalization of this type of dance in schools in Havana (and there is no reason to presume that this is not the case in the rest of the country as well).
Very good for the concern of the journalist. But have you wondered when and how the problem started? Is it just an ethical-aesthetic problem or does it bring previous moral considerations?
What would Petronius, arbitrator and judge of good taste in Nero’s Rome, think when he saw such impudence? He would surely show enthusiasm, because his era was one of pleasure and excess, bacchanalia, vulgar hedonism, decadence.
Difficult to insist on what is not. How to go against the moral deterioration suffered during sixty-four years of this regime that they call revolution?
In Havana, not only old buildings and houses collapse. In Havana and throughout Cuba, customs, manners, common sense and opportunities to be better are also collapsing.
It is not for nothing that a certain Cuban singer, recently arrived in exile, launched into social media with major obscenities against someone who objected to her first concert in Miami.
Girls dance the toleton at school because they do it at home, and they listen to that aggressive music in their personal and social spaces.
There is nothing strange. It is just a sample button of the decline of a society, where the designated president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, dismisses a speech asking for aché, says that criticism of his government slips, names the national baseball team Team Asere, and the Granma newspaper, the official organ of the Communist Party, dedicates a headline such as “Team Asere broke it.”
On San Miguel street, in Centro Habana, where I live, the students from a nearby junior high school pass by, yelling, cursing, offending each other with swear words. Sometimes, in a fight, even a knife has come to light.
Pedro, Estervina, Molécula and Tropicana de la Caridad, all over 50, were born and raised on a plot of land on this street. They always say good morning and good night.
Geña, 67, raised her three sons, washing for the street and cleaning the house, because her husband took off one morning after another woman. And woe to those boys if they dared to raise their voices to an older person.
The family is the first school of the citizen, where his personality and values are based. But the Cuban family is broken and can barely take care of their children’s education.
Let us not be surprised then because children and adolescents, victims of an impoverishing system and regime, utter curse words and wiggle to the beat of the toletón dance.
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