What does Aruba mean?

Happy Corner, often called Aluba in Taiwan Province, is a popular group game among male students in East Asia, which is used for abuse or joking.

"Play"

Many 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 called "con people" and "con victims", while in Taiwan Province they are "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 male dormitory student has a birthday, happy corner will be one of the ways to celebrate, plus singing for fun. The lyrics are adapted from English birthday songs, and the lyrics are "Happy corner to you" repeated four times.

In Taiwan Province, when students play Aruba, they usually bump the punished person's lower body into a tree trunk or any column, or tease the victim by rubbing around. Usually, the purpose of playing this game is not really to cause physical pain or injury to the person being played, but to bring into play a sense of community (to concentrate everyone's strength on the troublemakers who play the devil's advocate or say the wrong thing in the group), to teach the victims a lesson (in a joking manner), or simply to bully the weak.

In Guangdong, this game is called "grinding columns", which is mainly to knock the punished person's lower body into a corner and then rub it. Many times, too intense play will wear out or even wear pants, and the grinding column focuses on grinding, not bumping.

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 the Happy Birthday song, but the origin of the name "Aruba" used by Taiwan Province is somewhat tortuous.

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

At about the same time, a joke was circulated among students: "Two explorers were caught breaking into an island full of cannibals by mistake, and the patriarch of the tribe interrogated the two captured intruders and asked them to make a choice between execution and" playing the penis with a rubber band ". The first victim thought that there should be nothing worse than death in the world, so he chose to play the second child with a rubber band. The first victim was beaten to death, and the second victim saw such a terrible situation and asked for hope to die in order to get rid of it. Unexpectedly, the only way for the indigenous people to be executed was to play the second child with a rubber band until death. " Because this joke is similar to Aruba's game, it is gradually merged into one and the theory that Aruba is used to replace the rubber band for execution is spread. And because the joke mentioned the "island" and the pronunciation was similar, it was naturally associated with the Caribbean island Aruba (the Netherlands), but the reason originally derived from Arabic numerals was forgotten.

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

problems arising from happy corner culture

Happy corner culture was very popular in the tertiary sector in hong kong in the 199s, especially as an important activity in the 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 relevant behaviors. Some students give in because they can't resist peer pressure, causing psychological trauma. And college students in this era are also extremely open in sex. Some people correct 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 have written articles in newspapers to criticize this culture.

Due to the danger and sexual implication of this game, in January 25, the Ministry of Education of Taiwan Province issued a document to schools at all levels, demanding that students be prohibited from playing Aruba. In addition, as early as the beginning of 24, the Ministry of National Defense has ordered the prohibition of playing Aruba in the military.