Wondering what others think and quite prepared to be told I'm totally overreacting!
A few years ago I joined a gym and one of the classes was like a dance/zumba style thing. All good, until a section in the class where the teacher would put on different music from around the world and we all had to pretend to do that 'dance'. So we had an African track and we all had to jump around and pretend to be drumming, then an Indian one and we basically put our thumb and first finger together and made vaguely Indian classical dance moves. I think there was even an Egyptian style one with classic 80's movie style Egyptian dancing.
It all made me deeply uncomfortable to be honest. I used to different dance forms (mainly tap, jazz, modern) but I also have British friends in the UK who study Indian Classical dance. I know it's really meaningful and each move is very exacting.
Anyway, after a few tries I simply avoided that class, but I've moved gyms and there's another woman doing the same. Unfortunately this class is at a really good time for me, so I don't know whether to just suck it up, or if I'm totally overreacting in the first place.