All Girls Belly Dancers

Nietzsche

Banned
Women belly dancers are actually supposed to be full-bodied, rather than the thin and muscular women we seem to associate with in the West.
Replace "muscular" with "boney".

^.^ thank you India & all other cultures who brought us full-figured belly dancers.


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Okay got one.... during WWII many service men brought back wives from Britain, what if this happened with men that were on garrison duty in Arabia? The PoD would be a victory at El Almain but defeat afterwards for the Panzers Britain sends troops to Arabia to help protect Oil in the region and voila....

Yeah, this is a pretty cool POD - if the US's main focus for a large part of the war is a Middle East one, then its going to have huge impacts afterwards

Mmm... Gotta get my hinking thap on now...

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Grey Wolf
 

Keenir

Banned
^.^ thank you India & all other cultures who brought us full-figured belly dancers.

....which provides the perfect divergence -

the mania for all things Egyptian (sweeping across Europe and America) slowly goes from focusing on mummies, to the cultural traditions, such as belly dancing.
 

hammo1j

Donor
Fergie of Black Eyed Peas reveals the secret of her perfect abs: it's all down to one hour of belly dancing every evening, rather than the OTL reason: "Loss of fat associated with excessive use of Crystal Meth."
 
OK, how about this.

In 1920, America decides to hold the World Fair to end all World Fairs, a celebration of the end of WW1 and an invitation for all the world to live in peace and harmony, make sure a horror like that never starts again yadda yadda yadda. Every nation is invited to send cultural teams over to New York to show the best attributes of their nations. Just to make a real success of it the US Government promises matching funds for said groups and the "new nations" formed under the Versailles Treaty get wholly subsidized by the US.

Good idea, but strangely close to fact if you really look back to the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago and the exotic dancer Little Egypt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Egypt_(dancer)
 
Fergie of Black Eyed Peas reveals the secret of her perfect abs: it's all down to one hour of belly dancing every evening, rather than the OTL reason: "Loss of fat associated with excessive use of Crystal Meth."

And of course the pissing-yourself-on-stage :D
 
What no pictures yet? Well this will definitely catch on.

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One possibility would be for musical movies from the Middle East and India to be exported to the US in a big way in the 1950s and 1960s. Just as Asian martial arts were largely popularized by cheap Hong Kong flicks, one could see girls flocking to the latest movie from Cairo and deciding to learn the moves. Before long self-styled belly dancing coaches would set up shop, many of them underqualified but as time goes by, they would be replaced by people with genuine credentials.

O god, women imitating Aishwarya Rai! :eek:
 
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