Alex Christoforou
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What kind of grudge do British universities have against clapping? Roughly one year after the University of Manchester Student Union banned clapping at its events – choosing to instead ask audiences to use ‘jazz hands’ to show their appreciation for a performance – students at the University of Oxford are working to “replace clapping” because it could “trigger anxiety.”
Like their peers in Manchester, they will ask audiences to use silent hand-wave motion called “jazz hands”.
The motion to “mandate the encouragement of silent clapping” successfully passed in a vote taken by the school’s Student Union during their first meeting of the new school year.
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Millennials have crazy ideas. Jazz hands? WTF?
Clapping was considered too macho for them
Bizarre and not a little creepy.
Nothing to do with clapping. It’s Oxford’s, much like Yale’s and Harvard’s (et. al.) incessant propagandizing and manipulation of its students’ perceptions of the world at large that creates that anxiety, when it directly conflicts with emerging facts to the contrary.
The problem with ‘jazz hands’ is that it infers some sense of rhythm to properly perform, something inherently rare in the British genome. So that concept of ‘waving’ runs a high risk of creating anxiety itself, by the potential disunity of thousands of hands waving out of synch. 😉
Sorry native Brits, I know there are exceptions but in general and apart from coordinating your moves with US intelligence agencies, you ain’t got no rhythm.