Break dancing is a term that derived from mainstream media due to their ignorance and naïveté during the 1900’s and was promoted as a lowly culture. With no accurate knowledge of the hip-hop diaspora but with an indelible need to define it for the nescient masses, hence the term break dancing was created. Nonetheless, once hip hop dancers gained the attention of the media they produced inaccurate terminology in an effort to present the urban dance practice to the masses by creating a Westernized ideal/twist to the originality of the culture. Society constructs an Eurocentric conception forming a gap between anthropologist and scholars that exists due to the incorrect use of terms, the tendency to treat dance left to right, and the limited knowledge of non-western dance forms (joann) This often transpires when the Western domain is introduced to foreign values, society tends to devalue those who do not fit into their Eurocentric realm of the westernized perception of beauty and grace. For example Ballet fits well into the ethno-aesthetics, in the form of clothing, body types and choreography – that Ballet ensues the strict sex binary construction and hence it is cherished as it respects the social structure of Westernized ideals (joann).
