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* SpicyLatina: Subverted by the titular "Nina" from Argentina. She is an attractive young woman with suitors, but she absolutely hates dancing of all kinds, as well as, guitars, tropical palm trees, still lagoons and the Southern moon. In the end, the only man she consents to marry is a sailor with a wooden leg, precisely ''because'' he cannot dance.

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* SpicyLatina: Subverted by the titular "Nina" from Argentina. She is an attractive young woman with suitors, but she absolutely hates dancing of all kinds, as well as, guitars, as soft guitar music, tropical palm trees, still lagoons and the Southern moon. In the end, the only man she consents to marry is a sailor with a wooden leg, precisely ''because'' he cannot dance.
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* CulturalRebel: "Nina", a young Argentinean woman who ''hates'' all the romanticised "exotic" stereotypes of her culture, ''especially'' the dancing which she adamantly refuses to engage in.

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* CulturalRebel: "Nina", a young Argentinean woman who ''hates'' all the romanticised "exotic" stereotypes of her culture, ''especially'' the dancing which she adamantly refuses to engage in. She'd rather read a book, and that was that!

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* CulturalRebel: "Nina", a young Argentinean woman who ''hates'' all the romanticised "exotic" stereotypes of her culture, ''especially'' the dancing which she adamantly refuses to engage in.



* SpicyLatina: Subverted by the titular "Nina" from Argentina. She is an attractive young woman with suitors, but she absolutely hates all the romanticised "exotic" stereotypes of her culture, ''especially'' the dancing. In the end, the only man she consents to marry is a sailor with a wooden leg, precisely ''because'' he cannot dance.

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* ProneToSunburn: Invoked in the first verse of "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", but then subverted as English people, despite having paler skin than people of the other ethnicities listed, are depicted as being more willing to brave the tropical midday sun.
-->Because the sun is much too sultry
-->And one must avoid its ultry-violet ray.
* SpicyLatina: Subverted by the titular "Nina" from Argentina. She is an attractive young woman with suitors, but she absolutely hates dancing of all kinds, as well as, guitars, tropical palm trees, still lagoons and the romanticised "exotic" stereotypes of her culture, ''especially'' the dancing.Southern moon. In the end, the only man she consents to marry is a sailor with a wooden leg, precisely ''because'' he cannot dance.
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** "Nina" directly quotes and makes fun of Creator/ColePorter's "Begin the Beguine", as part of its satire on the tendency for Latin American culture to be portrayed as exotically romantic in films and popular songs of the Anglosphere.

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** "Nina" directly quotes and makes fun of Creator/ColePorter's Music/ColePorter's "Begin the Beguine", as part of its satire on the tendency for Latin American culture to be portrayed as exotically romantic in films and popular songs of the Anglosphere.

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