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STEREOtypical. To check the typical one, wikipedia is the best source.

Wikipedia and ‘best source’ dont belong in the same sentence in positive context

English, for heavens sake please don't associate Scots with this in any way. It is beyond embarrassing.

@@ianmacewan9416 I got it; thank you for the correction.

From Coventry.

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Thank you, we are Germanic brothers

once? still is! those are some fierce techniques hidden in there

@@kevlarchicken hehe lol

Obviously no one has told them :-) completely oblivious as to how ridiculous this looks.

​@@ianmacewan9416 And do you know what? They couldn't give a toss as to what you or anyone else thinks.

@@Wotsitorlabart That's what I said. Obviously.

İt was in Birmingham it was NOt an event just a show

You expect them all to be grinning like idiots? It's bloody hard work. Perhaps you expect men running a marathon or sprinting over hurdles to be grinning too.

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Europa Sun .........Carolyn is the best on this subject

The English Folk Dance and Song Society.

England is the UK then?

An ancient English traditional dance form. It has various styles, this is North West complete with clogs. More info at morrisminors.wordpress.com/morris-history/ if you are interested. You can see the other styles on you tube too. Some styles have parallels with continental dances, especially the Basque, Spanish and Portuguese.

@@morrisminors9750 I find it unusual for a Midlands side to perform NW. Surely, Cotswold would be more authentic.

@@class87srule An interesting thought, Ian. The reality is that the styles, named for their areas of origin, are pretty well mixed up geographically these days - a bit like Yorkshire Terriers and Great Danes. We have plenty of people rapper dancing after a hard day down the Chelsea pit and folks doing Lancashire clog in Camden town, probably followed by a Danish pilsner and an Indian curry!

What came next was most likely a pub visit, LOL.

That happens in a different style of Morris Dancing.

It'd be a bit weird. The Haka is a war dance while Morris dancing is a ritual meant to celebrate and promote fertility in the crops and in women at the coming of Springtime (similar to a Maypole). It'd be like responding to a man with a gun by ploughing a field.

@@joshuabruce9599 Morris dancing has absolutely nothing to do with fertility in crops or women and neither does the Maypole.

If you want something to counter the Maori Haka, check out the Beltane Border Morris. They do Morris Dancing that's on steroids 😁

Good idea. The Kiwis would never get off their backs laughing.

Morris Dancing on steroids 😁

Well done, you're a conforming modernist

@@Dryhten1801 Where does all that ghoulish-looking stuff come from?

It’s called Morris Dancing, an ancient English dance. Not really done much anymore, nice to see people keeping the tradition alive though.

@@WomanOnTopOnline What? Not much done? A, next May Day (Covid-19 aside), go to Rochester, or Brighton, or Cerne Abbas, or Minehead, or -- a score of British towns -- and you'll see dozens of morris teams gathered from all over the country. We dance not just to keep tradition alive (some traditions are better dead) but because dancing is fun, sociable, energising and creative. More info on the websites of the Morris Ring, the Morris Federation and Open Morris. And tons of photos to prove my claim!

@@annhinchliffe8314 Yeah honestly I see morris dancing almost every time I go to a small town in summer - great in devon and cornwall too. I'm glad it's not dying out, and although some people laugh at it I think its beautiful that people can just get together and dance like this :)

No.

"Pull the other one" likely to have originated from court jesters costumes and their role. I think you will find that Morris was mentioned earlier in documents than before these wars.

Oh dearie me. Wee Nigel is green.

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Britain is England.

@@ianmacewan9416 Hi Ian, the home countries which comprise Great Britain and/or the united Kingdom which are two different definitions of the countries of these islands can be a bit confusing particularly when you take into account that before the 1900's people used to refer to Britain as England but since the rise of nationalist opinion in Scotland and Wales the demarcation has become more pronounced. To say "Britain is England" would upset quite a few Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish. From my point of view all I am concerned with is the loss of "English" as opposed to Scots and Welsh etc culture which is gradually dying out in our multicultural society. If you talk to children today they seem to know nothing of English country dancing as well as Morris and also English folk songs and jigs. I mention jigs because due to my own ignorance I always thought that jigs were entirely Irish in origin but I have discovered that the earliest mention of Jigs is from the 1400's and mentions English jigs. No offence was intended from me to those who associate themselves with being British only. Best wishes to you on your journey in life. Frank

@@frankblackwell3804 The word "Braitain" is what the Romans called the land they conquered South of their wall. The land North of that they named mostly Caledonia. This is a fact. The English establishment decided to call the whole island Great Britain about 300 years ago, in an attempt to swamp the national identity of Scots. This has worked on the more ignorant and brainwashed of those born in Scotland. It does not work on the majority of us. I don't care who gets upset at the truth and facts. If anyone born in Scotland accepts what a foreign people brand them, that is their problem but they are essentially calling themselves English and they might as well admit it.

@@frankblackwell3804 So you were correct. Morris dancing is English and British at the same time. It is only by default and English ethnocentrism that Scotland is associated with that name. We don't like the association one bit.

@@ianmacewan9416 Just a postscript. I think it brilliant that the Scots and the Welsh and Northern Irish are preserving their culture. I applaud it and wish we English would learn from it.

1)it’s fun and traditional, many people enjoy watching or being in the dances 2) this is a men’s only side, there are lots of women’s only sides and lots of mixed sides, it’s not just men 3) there dancing a very tiring and sometimes painful dance in the rain, they are also focusing so can’t be expected to smile constantly 4) im not sure what you mean by comedy value, this is north west, other styles have comedy value like some rapper or cotswold sides but this isn’t supposed to be funny and people don’t find it funny unless they are mocking it 5) it’s just a traditional dance, it’s not especially famous

@@quph0ria617 to be fair I understand what you say and I shouldn't have been so judgemental and negative. Thanks for helping me understand better.

There are many styles of Morris Dancing. This is rather a staid performance. Check out Beltane Border Morris for something more lively.

@@PLuMUK54Will do thanks for the recommendation!

@@PLuMUK54 disgusting

Interesting to hear..homophobia from a leftist.

​​@@Dryhten1801 And judging by the name and the term 'wee' he is of the Scotch persuasion. You know - one of those strange characters who live in that benighted land to the north of beautiful England. The men wear skirts and prance and ponce about over two pointy implements laid on the ground - all the time waving their limp wrists in the air. Absolutely hilarious!

No.

There are other Morris dancing groups that have more fun and they do it with a bit more gusto.With the meaning behind it, I do prefer it done that way!

​@@Bella-fz9fy Depends which form of morris they are dancing. This is North West morris which is more processional - less leaping around. I rather like it.

@@Wotsitorlabart Still prefer the faster,leaping kind,but fair enough!😆

Check out the Beltane Border Morris for Morris Dancing on Steroids 😁

Someone had to say this.

​@@vanfernandes292 And it had to be the idiot RelativeBadger. Which English traditional dance does he refer to? The various Morris dances of which the video is an example of the North West tradition? Yorkshire Longsword dances? NE Rapper sword dances? The Molly dances of East Anglia? Clog dancing? The English Country Dances that can be seen in just about any film adaptation of a Jane Austen novel - and which were enthusiastically taken up by the French, Scots, Irish and Americans? The English dance tradition is second to none.

Invent a new one. And no flowery hats please!

Jig Dancing has english origin . When Irish dance it is actually English dance

Check out Beltane Border Morris for a more lively performance.