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Originally Posted by Oleg Bach
Just tossed the idea into the air. Macho walking even in Latin America is a sign of male insecurity. I was probably stereotyping regarding Americans. The dignified walk is one with the back straight..a casual gate but not to casual...and portraying subtle confidence. It's about how truly secure you are as a person that dictates your walk. If you have ever seen a small woman or man walk - they like to swing their arms out and take wide strides as if to create the illusion that they are taking up more physical space..that they are bigger than they are...It might be a natural thing.
Now the black ghetto walk is something else...It's a "I don't give a damn" gate...Then there is the gay walk that from a distance can give the impression of an approaching female...I guess that could be natural also seeing that they want the protection and privilege that females enjoy...It's all about predators - a blow fish will increase it's size by bloating up to fool predators...Humans do this also...The best walk takes a bit of skill...not to much of this and not to much of that. In some neighborhoods you have to do the "I did time in prison walk" even if you didn't....eyes forward and a quiet confidence.
I don't even think about how I walk, but I guess sub-consciously my walk reveals things about my inner character/mood.
You've seriously never heard the word swagger before? That's surprising to me, it's a very common English verb meaning to walk or strut with an arrogant, defiant or insolent air.
To walk with an air of conspicuous self-satisfaction, usually of masculine vanity. To behave in a blustering self-satisfied manner. To boast or to brag....showy or stylish. Bravado....To be a Swag....and then there is the "Swagger stick" It was a metal tipped cane carried by military to denote elegance and authority..Sounds kind of like a description for the classic American black pimp out of the 70s....This is rather odd that the British elite walked with a swagger and now some blacks have adopted a version of this strut.
Whites from what I have seen have forgotten the swagger. Of course there swagger is more fluid and has the cadence of a dance. Speaking of bravado or male vanity. Recently a street character that I knew was charged with threatening. He blurted out a threat against his wife's new husband. I attended court with him and quietly represented him. Language is powerful . I gave his a new word - "Bravado" I instructed him to tall the prosecutor that he did not threaten anyone - that he was simply full of Bravado...that word got the charges dropped...Then with great satisfaction I swaggered out of the court house...a polite toned down swagger.
Wow - talk about the death of the English language. It's not even an "English" term it is a common word that perhaps fell out of use only 30 years ago.
Since it was first coined by Mr. William Shakespeare, methinks it IS an English term!
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Originally Posted by Oleg Bach
...Pirates strut.
No, I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Pirates most definately swagger, since their ships are full of swag! Except for Capt. Jack Sparrow. God know what you'd call HIS loopy walk!
Since it was first coined by Mr. William Shakespeare, methinks it IS an English term!
No, I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Pirates most definately swagger, since their ships are full of swag! Except for Capt. Jack Sparrow. God know what you'd call HIS loopy walk!
Thanks for the morning laugh. The first time I heard the word swagger I was 17 and my girlfriend commented on my swagger. It was not a conscious walk it just happened. Probably because growing up in the sticks we as kids had absolutely no restrictions or supervision. We ran wild. The freedom contained in early life may have generated a type of confidence that manifested into a SWAGGER...YES and Obama is a SWAG...When he drapes his jacket over his shoulder and walks- he swaggers. I guess when you control the worlds most powerful nuclear arsenal you can strut your stuff? NOW- someone like old Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones ...can swagger without even moving...He is a total swag.
Thats bull**** americans come to the causeway in flocks every single year and the only way you will know that they are american is that they have the accent. And this nonsense about the dress code of shorts etc. Well I would say thats nonsense also because the americans that I have seen visiting Northern Ireland have not dressed like that, in-fact they have dressed smartly with dresses etc. Just like us.
actually its not...and I was reffering to the european continent not Northern Ireland..neophyte
I'd say from living in the USA all these years. That many wouldn't walk 1 block unless they absolutely had to. That doesn't mean the entire US population, but sadly the percentage is extremely high. So much so that it can seem like everyone here will not walk. Its drive and then drive some more type of mindset. Every day I am in awe at the amount of obese people in this country. It is very alarming to me and the amount of sweets people eat here is a disgrace. So I'm not sure how someone can identify the American by their walk. If so more power to them. They must have excellent instincts.
I'd say from living in the USA all these years. That many wouldn't walk 1 block unless they absolutely had to. That doesn't mean the entire US population, but sadly the percentage is extremely high. So much so that it can seem like everyone here will not walk. Its drive and then drive some more type of mindset. Every day I am in awe at the amount of obese people in this country. It is very alarming to me and the amount of sweets people eat here is a disgrace. So I'm not sure how someone can identify the American by their walk. If so more power to them. They must have excellent instincts.
I walked alot today, going from parking garage to work, walked to lunch, went to the mall did alot of walking in the mall. There was also alot of people i saw walking around today.
But who knows maybe in Arizona/Massachusetts everyone has segways and wheel chairs?
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