A Pinoy activist from the 1960s pointed out how the Filipino Cultural Dance Association of Sacramento (FCDAS) is endangered. They perform less and less and do not have many new dancers.
A Herbert Spencer inspired reaction would be to point out that only the strong survive. If the FCDAS is irrelevant, then it would eventually disappear.
Other Filipino cultural dance troupes in other parts of the country are thriving. In Sacramento, hip hop dance groups are thriving, as well as Hawaiian halaus, Latin dance, ballroom dancing, Hmong cultural dance, etc. Somehow, Filipino dance is not experiencing that sort of success.
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