https://archive.md/2021.12.17-113002/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/17/china-dancing-grannies-noise/
Guangchangwu, or “square dancing,” dates back decades. The practice had its origins in collective public dances during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, and later in the economic reforms of the 1990s that left many city dwellers jobless and in need of low-cost entertainment.
Today, the "damas” or “big mothers” as the dancers are known, can be found dancing in the early mornings and evenings, blasting their stereos, waving fans and scarves, while jitterbugging, waltzing and jiving.
This seems like a perfectly sensible law that could be passed in any city or country, and probably has been. But when it happens in China, it's suddenly newsworthy and gets dressed in a language of "'Those who violate the regulations shall be persuaded and educated' by the relevant local government bodies 'to correct themselves' "
This. china complaints by the western press are almost always based in racism.
The fact that the picture for the article is of someone wearing headphones instead of blasting music seems to suggest that the jig is not, in fact, up.
I am going to be revisionist here. Sometimes societal ills are good for you. Your granma blasting awful oldies at the crack of down and getting jiggy with her homies should be a pain all should have to suffer
I dunno, I read the headline, and I'm pretty sure the author doesn't want me to read the article.
I read the headline, and I’m pretty sure the author doesn’t want me to read the article
What is 'Western Journalism in the 2020's', Alex
Shouldn't the Chinese government be focusing on something more important, like their constant school shootings? Because of communism and/or state capitalism I'm sure that's an even bigger problem in China than in the US.
Fuck, you just sent me down a rabbit hole on Chinese Christian cults. Did you know the first big one one (school stabbing) happened only 2 hours before Sandy Hook?
The guy who did it was from the Eastern Lighting church which is connected pretty heavily to doomsday cultism and you can trace their new age Christian lineage back to South Bend Indiana.
I think former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevic was simply joking about how there's a ton more school shootings in the US
I was joking. I hope China doesn't have a school shooting problem. I don't feel like having my worldview challenged on Friday evening.
Their gun regulation is incredibly strict, I think they even ban airsoft. So probably no school shootings, but as invalidusernamelol posted, there are stabbings. Definitely nowhere near as bad as the US though, it takes a lot of skill to fuck up your country to such a degree
Imagining a bunch of people line dancing in the city square
This bitch is the Beijing bureau chief and still does moronic straight translations of Chinese. Like "da ma" means older woman, or auntie, translating it as big mothers makes no fucking sense.
Like for sure she is one of those reporters who just reports on what racist expats in Beijing is talking about.
In China, everyone greeting Xi must say "you good". If they don't, they will be permanently banned from using a toothbrush.
I literally saw some "china light-news for foreigners" bullshit page on IG claim 大家好 means "big family good".
im not saying old people should all be instituionalized or living in SROs, im just saying we have moved too far in the opposite direction
Nobody here has had the opportunity to meet them but people of that age in China are like boomers on steroids, they had incredible prosperity handed to them and they shit even harder on millennials and younger than American boomers do. They are loathsome spoiled children with mega narcissism and I would camp them faster than you can say yakexi
With a little bit of tweaking that could be a really good The Onion article.
our dancing grannies are literally run over by motorists, but that's the price you gotta pay for FREEDOM
:side-eye-2: also definitely do not under any circumstances look at how America treats their street dancers
These ladies are really common in China. They end up in most Walk East videos I watch.
Still better than what happened to US dancing grannies
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