This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. So China enters the “Dama era” or “marijuana era.” “Marijuana” is now blocked on Weibo. I don’t want to live in the kneeling country.Ī phrase made by joining the nicknames for President Xi Jinping – Daddy Xi, or Xí Dàda in Chinese – and his wife, Peng Liyuan - Mama Peng or Péng Máma - to make the word for marijuana: dama. What is the difference then? Purses are fuller? Modernized? No human rights in the kneeling country. This term suggests that citizens now feel compelled to kneel to get things that should be theirs by ZJ: More than 170 years have passed, mob people are still mob people, the stupid masses are still stupid, and the kneeling country is still kneeling. This is a play on the similar-sounding term for “distinguished country” and mocks the idea that Chinese people these days feel they should kneel in front of government buildings to get their grievances heard. No matter who you are, you won’t be able to run away from it if you come across it. When power is not being supervised, it is inevitable that violence associated with official work would occur. What a magical Sigh! Death by seek-and-hide, death by taking a shower, is not news anymore. The “hide-and-seek incident” now refers to cover-ups of police Minghui: There is a place, a magical place where you can die by vomiting, die by having physical abnormalities, die by hide-and-seek, and by all kinds of magical ways. The police said Li died of a head injury suffered while playing hide-and-seek with other prisoners. It stems from the explanation offered by prison authorities after farmer Li Qiaoming died while in detention on charges of illegal logging in 2009. This euphemism has become shorthand for dying in police custody under suspicious circumstances. There’s a new way of dying in China: death by hide and seek. While others invented things to bring convenience to people, your country invented things to restrict people’s freedom! Your country invented the hukou system, the one-child policy, fees for choosing a school, limits on car plates, limits on house purchasing, etc. “Terms like ‘your country’ separate the Chinese Communist Party from the state, which are often conflated in official rhetoric,” the report says.Įxamples from The west invented the train, the car, airplane, bike, motorbike, electricity and all the appliances, among other things. But turning the saying on its head, liberal, pro-human rights netizens are using the phrase “your country” to refer to the nationalists running the country. Instead of saying “China,” it’s common here just to say “my country” (just as Japanese and Koreans use “my” or “our” country for theirs). Here are some of the terms added to this year’s lexicon. With slightly different inflections, the words that make up that character’s name sound like an insulting profanity that WorldViews will avoid spelling out to protect innocent eyeballs. One of the most famous Internet puns revolves around a character called the caonima, or grass-mud horse, the report says. Many of these metaphors describe the government, for obvious reasons, but they are also used to get around prudish censors. “Chinese netizens are still speaking in a heavily monitored environment, and so their demands for greater freedom of information and expression often find voice through coded language and metaphors that allow them to avoid outright censorship,” the authors write in the report. Among them, 198 million are active monthly users of Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, up a phenomenal 38 percent from the previous year.īut Weibo is tightly controlled, and social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are blocked. Article contentĪbout half of China’s 1.3 billion people were using the Internet at the end of last year, a statistic from the China Internet Network Information Center quoted in the report.
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