Todays video is like watching synchronized swimming without the water, it is simply astounding the accuracy these men have. The video really got me at the 1:50 mark, and had me till the end.
From what I can summarize from the little Japanse I know and from the help of Google Translate, 'collective action' is sport similar to cheer leading in the United States. It is often conducted at school in the early years of physical education, and also in police academies.
Collective action or 集団行動 is the action carried out together in order to achieve the same collective goal.
A classic youtube video that has 1,500 + people preforming in unison is 'Thriller'. Michael Jackson's Thriller was preformed by inmates of CPDRC (Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines). However, as this video is more then 4 years old you should have already watched it by now. If you havent here is the link (http://youtu.be/hMnk7lh9M3o)
The inmates choose Michael Jackson because they believe:
Michael Jackson was a convicted man to the eyes of those who hated him. He would have been in imprisoned had it not been for settlement arrangements, they would say. Still Michael Jackson's frailty as a human being makes him like one of us -- whether one is a prisoner or not.
So it is no surprise that their latest video is also a Michael Jackson song 'This is it'. The main lines of the song are 'All I really know is that they don't really care about us'. I think the prisoners are trying to send us a message using dancing as a vessel.
So tell me, "what song would you dance to if you were in prison?" Leave your comments or creative responses below.
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