The Britannia coconut dancers date back to the 18th century and have blacked up in all that time,.www.coconutters.co.uk they do their own dances omititely not border. Witch doctors in the Amazon put white clay on their faces to frighten people, as do a lot of the African tribes. My fear is we are all getting too PC in this country and will end up doing nothing in the fear of offending someone.It may turn into a very grey and dull world. My friends from other parts of the world think it,s funny we take all this so seriously.What happened to respecting and accepting peoples cultures and traditions however different from our own and live and let live xx