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Q: Loud music on campus?
Teachers. Does your campus play exessively loud music ?
There is a kindergarten I pass often that has some childrens tunes blasting at a pretty nasty volume, I usually pass at a slight distance. However, recently I've started walking past a college. This morning at 7:15 walking down a sidewalk chatting with the dog. At some point there is a wall on one side of us, behind it is a college of some sorts. For 100 meters, I couldn't hear my iPod (at full volume with in ear buds) and I had a hard time hearing the cars honk on the street. Looking around there are residential buildings around this.... It seems that they do a mix of loud distorted music and loud distorted announcements. Do all schools have loud distorted PA systems at full blast ?
(is this a propaganda tool so it is possible to announce things to the public. I remember reading that in Korea, North, they have speakers in peoples homes in case fatty wants to tell the pathetic proles a thing or two about his cheese eating habits)
It's a form of communist control method, being so loud that people have no choice but to listen to you, it comes from the same logic used when displaying massive banners and other communist propaganda, thus occupying people's sight. Such methods are also used in capitalist systems, mostly by advertisers, the bigger ad the better
Another form of control used in communist countries that every foreigners working in China have to deal with is not telling anything in advance (e.g. holidays) and always waiting the last minute to do that, so that people can't plan meetings to conspire against the ruling party.
I was born in East Germany, your welcome.
Scandinavian:
I am shocked. East Berlin has always been portrayed as grey, silent, perhaps rainy in all (most) the spy movies. Just the odd noise from a Trabi racing past.
At least I don't recall movies with a kindergarten blaring one of Veronika Fischers hits into the bleeding ear drums of little kids.
tbh66:
explains the yelling at a mobile phone, even in quite confines
Yeah... it does seem to be a trend in China. I don't know how many more times I can handle that Xiaopingguo song.
I am wondering how many kids at kindergarten here will have damaged ear drums thanks to this stupid idea.
Scandinavian:
not important, they hearing will be damaged before they start in kindergarten as they have grandparents whose voice is at a db level comparable to a rock concert.
Lord_hanson:
Good point, after their grandparents have a phone conversation that is it they are screwed.
Eorthisio:
Peter Chao summed it well with humor in that old video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGI0jlz22Dg apparently it's only Mainland Chinese who are so loud, I observed that too, overseas Chinese whose families emigrated before the cultural revolution are usually very quiet people.
I am wondering how many kids at kindergarten here will have damaged ear drums thanks to this stupid idea.
My campus in Changsha started with the loud-speakers, without fail, at 6.30 every morning with the most random music you could think of at top volume. (for example, Dixie Chicks followed by Richard Clayderman)
every afternoon at about 5.00 pm they had a bizarre English language program where the students would talk about the most inane and tedious topics they pulled out of a hat.
at absolutely no time whatever was any FT asked to be involved. (thankfully)
they would go a bit like this:
A: I like X
B: i also like X, and you?
C: yes, I like X too
A: I like it because (random reason) and you?
B: that's a great reason. I like it because (insert another random reason)
C: wow, yes ! I think it is really awesome
and so on
Shining_brow:
That was the earlier version of the Audio-Lingual method - yes?? From about the 60's?
I live in the N. end of the Campus without any music or announcements.
There is a big parking lot in front with bus idling engine around 6:30 am, but that's all.
Can't complain about noise at my house
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All schools I've been to/taught at have had excessive noise from loudspeakers. It could likely be due to a general desensitization to noise. Chinese are less sensitive to loudness (when a Samsung phone plays that irritating whistle alert, I have never seen a Chinese bothered, nor do Chinese seem annoyed by fellow passengers playing movies or games with no headphones). There's the constant yelling and horn honking. All this means that Chinese just don't really perceive noise the same way non-Chiense do. In order to catch the attention of students, they need to make it exceptionally loud.
I live about 300 meters away from a middle school. Every Monday morning, like clockwork, the music comes on. 7:30 - 10:00. It's loud enough to wake me up and basically ruin my morning, and I'm several hundred meters away! Its not even songs, just the same stupid jingle over, and over, and over again. I swear I will have that tune in my head until the day I die......
