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.

      • BGDelirium [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        yo look at big brains here, actually reading the article and shit

      • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        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.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          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.

          • Tervell [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I think former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevic was simply joking about how there's a ton more school shootings in the US

            • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              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.

              • Tervell [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                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

      • shiteyes2 [any]
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        3 years ago

        Yep you nailed it, it's a Karen cloud. Hazard to public health