Chapotraphouse

Super real American anthropologist here. I have a degree on American culture, except don't ask to see it. The paper as well as the university that gave it to me fell into the ocean. I do not recall which ocean.

This here appears to be a form of trance that is induced by the consumption of an alcoholic concoction not too dissimilar to the baijiu we have in the civilised world (I believe they usually have something they call "Clamato" mixed with something they call "Natty Lite", but it can also be made with "Four Loko" and "V8 Vegetable Juice". The etymologies for all of these words are lost to time) during a coming-of-age ritual known as "hazing", believed to stem from getting into a drunken haze off of "moon shine" (also similar to baijiu) and shooting each other with flintlock pistols (which also produces a smoky haze) as a pastime in medieval America.

These men largely hail from villages and hamlets from the countryside (although not exclusively) and congregate around a "college" (which may be a loan word, it's uncertain if any education is mandated by these colleges, as the youth can simply threaten the shaman-tutor for being "woke" and "infringing on their beliefs" and automatically succeed in the class), whose main purpose is to produce (unpaid) athletes for the entertainment of the elders in a congregation called "March Madness", which I believe is an homage to an archaic custom where they forced their youth into the jungles of Vietnam and "march" forward into spike pits or develop "madness" from PTSD and the conscription.