Line Dancing is a Group Fitness activity just like Aerobics, Yoga and Tai Chi. there are so many bad line dance instructors out there teaching.... I am convinced that these teachers should have the expertise and training as do the Yoga and Tai Chi instructors, even if it means getting certified.

Sandra Balestracci, Fort Lauderdale, FL , USA

I'm sure line dancing is still done here in Texas, but it is largely passé. But I think it's fine that the French like it. And my guess is many of them like George Bush, too, since they have elected Monsieur Sarkozy. Love the French! But their government sounds like a hassle!

Betty, Dallas, USA

Seems like another way for government to make money from its citizens. Gov't should stick to regulating more important issues than dancing.

Mark, Seattle, USA

Hey Jay you must not be a NATIVE TEXAN because I line dance all the time.....and, GASP, I live here.
Regulating line-dancing is going a little too far if you ask me, I mean this is something I do when I go out partying and the French have to have a diploma to teach it?

Veronica, San Antonio, USA

There is little doubt for that those French line dancing “teachers” will be “carefully selected” among the ranks of the appointed “good citizen” whose obedience to the State and leftist commitment are irreproachable, so as not to let the wandering sheep yielding to the sirens of sinful consumerism..

Dominique R. Poirier, Southbridge, United States

In America, nobody tells us how to dance. Don't the French have something more important to regulate - like immigration?

PeggyU, Ferndale,

What rubbish! The popularity of line dancing has nothing to do with not touching people! It's about sharing, keeping fit, good for the memory and the moral.

A state diploma wont work, too expensive. Most instructors are amateurs and clubs are non-profit associations. Who's qualified to train 'em

Maureen Jessop, ROYAN, France

Correction, pardners: There is NO line dancing in Texas. Line dancing is for the Nashville types. That is all. Vote liberty always!!

Jay, Austin, USA

Guys: it's a socialist country! They do things differently! But the good news is, so do we!

Peter McGuigan, New York, NY, USA

I thought 'line dancing' was over in the late 90s?!

Fernandez, San Francisco,

This will start happening in the U.S. if we don't assert our freedom and liberty now! Both the Democrats and Republicans want to regulate more and spend more. I think it's time to forget the big 2 parties and vote 3rd party for real change we can all believe in.

Jim, Indianapolis,

I don't dance but if I did I can't see where it would need Government regulating! Does the Government need to be involved in everything over thier? And to think I thought we were over regulated here in the Good Ole USA!

Timothy, Carrollton KY, USA

I have sqaure danced and line danced for MANY, MANY, years! I LOVE both forms of dancing. I also traveled in France years ago, where some treated us American's like 'rubbish'. The OVER regulations put on teaching of line dancing sounds SO far fetched to us Americans!!! USA really is the BEST!!!!

Chris, San Jose, USA

And how is line dancing associated with "individualism"? You all look like a bunch of lemmings out there to me. And there is a high creep factor to men in tight wrangler jeans out there dancing buy themselves..yuck.

Raul Reddy, Lubbock, USA

France is a prime example of a country where the citizens are distracted by "sexual freedom" while their government steals the rest of their freedom. They can't even dance freely anymore.
Yet the loony left in the US thinks we should be more like France? Given me a break.

mark, dorado, PR

Oh dear! Being from the Mecca of country music, I don't know if even I would put line-dancing in the category of "American magic." Oh, and large numbers of people standing in rows replicating the exact predetermined steps in unison is a way to show "individualism?" Whatever, glad you're havin' fun!

Kerry, Nashville, USA

Line dancing is a sport? I suppose that they'll regulate anything that they can, in order to generate revenue to support the government. From an American point of view, that's just weird. All that it takes to dance here is the willingness to pay a cover charge in a bar. LOL

JR, USA,

"We love the American dream but we hate Americans"?

Well the American dream is no more Fwance.

Up yours, froggy.

atheling, Seattle, USA

Oh irony! While France is undergoing islamic invasion, they can think of nothing better to do than regulate behavior that comes from Western Democracy... Meanwhile, killing Jews, honor crimes, Burkas and Sharia law increasing in France - and no one blinks!

Teri, Essex County, NJ, USA

What is the French term for 'politician with not enough REAL work to do'?

Annie B, LA CA, USA

The French are avoiding physical contact? Mon Dieu, what is next? The American kiss?

Eugene, heidelberg, germany