What do Aruba and Aluca mean respectively?

Happy Corner, commonly known as Aluba in Taiwan Province Province, is a popular group game among male students in East Asia, which is used for insulting or joking.

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A number of students lifted a boy and then played with his lower body with hard objects, including rubbing on the post. In Hongkong, these behaviors are usually referred to as "cheaters" and "victims of fraud", while in Taiwan Province Province they are referred to as "A" and "Bei A". There are also two people whose lower bodies collide with each other, which is called "X-con". In the student dormitory, when a student in a boy dormitory celebrates his birthday, the Happy Corner will be one of the ways to celebrate, plus singing for recreation. The lyrics are adapted from English birthday songs. The lyrics are "Happy corner to you" and repeated four times.

In Taiwan Province Province, when students play Aruba, they usually knock the punished person's lower body against a tree trunk or any column, or tease the victim by rubbing it around. Usually, the purpose of playing this kind of game is not to really cause physical pain or harm to the players, but to bring into play the group consciousness (focus everyone's strength on the troublemakers who play the devil's advocate or say the wrong thing in the group), teach the victims a lesson (in a joking way), or simply bully the weak.

In Guangdong, this game is called column grinding, which mainly knocks the punished person's lower body into an angle and then rubs it. A lot of times, if you play too hard, you will even wear pants. Grinding is the most important thing, not knocking.

The origin of the name

Among several different names of this game in different regions, the origin of "Happy Corner" is relatively uncontroversial. It is simply a variant of Happy Birthday, but the origin of the name "Aruba" used in Taiwan Province Province is somewhat tortuous.

In the early days, there were sporadic similar games among young students in Taiwan Province Province, but at that time, there was no clear name for the game, only a common name such as "bumping into a column" (Taiwanese meaning bumping into a column), or a name similar to climbing trees, climbing columns, climbing windows, drinking fountains or even hitting people according to the object tools used in the game. Later, before and after the martial law was lifted, the students of the high school affiliated to Taiwan Normal University shouted in Taiwanese: "Death (pronounced like" four "in Taiwanese)!" At that time, because one of the students had just learned that the Arabic word "four" was pronounced as "arba'atun", they called it, which became the code word of the students in their later games. This usage gradually spread and became the main meaning of the word "Aruba".

Almost at the same time, there was a joke among the students: "Two explorers were caught by mistake on an island full of cannibals, and the patriarch interrogated the two arrested intruders and asked them to choose between execution and" playing with penis with rubber bands ". The first victim thought that there should be nothing worse than death, so he chose to hit the second child with a rubber band. The first victim was killed, and the second victim saw such a terrible situation and asked for hope to die in order to get rid of hope. Unexpectedly, the only way for indigenous people to be executed is to beat their second child with a rubber band until they die. " Because this joke is similar to Aruba's game, it gradually merged into one, spreading the theory that Aruba is used to replace rubber bands. Moreover, because the joke mentioned "island" and its pronunciation was similar, it naturally associated with the Caribbean island Aruba (Netherlands), but the reason originally derived from Arabic numerals was forgotten.

However, in Aruba, a Caribbean island on the other side of the globe, there are no cannibals and similar executions. In fact, most students in Taiwan Province Province have never heard of the name Aruba, and their knowledge of this name is limited to this indecent game. So when people hear Aruba, they often mistake it for a fictional joke, which is a misunderstanding that needs to be refuted urgently.

Problems caused by happy corner culture

Happy Corner Culture was very popular in Hong Kong junior colleges in1990s, especially as an important activity of orientation camp. What is even more frightening is that a small number of people apply this game to two unfamiliar students of the opposite sex, which is similar to simulated sexual intercourse. Some students were criticized by their seniors as "uncooperative" and "bad attitude" because they refused to participate in related behaviors. Some students give in because they can't resist peer pressure, causing psychological trauma. Moreover, college students in this era are extremely open in sex. Someone corrected me because of this happy corner culture. Therefore, this kind of activity is criticized by some people, and it is said that it will affect their sexual ability. Some people write articles in the newspaper criticizing this culture.

Due to the danger and sexual implication of this game, the Ministry of Education of Taiwan Province Province issued a document to schools at all levels on June 5438+ 10, 2005, demanding that students be prohibited from playing Aruba. In addition, as early as the beginning of 2004, the Ministry of National Defense had ordered the prohibition of fighting Aruba in the military.