The other day, I was at my friend’s house and happened to noticed that she had an email open in her inbox, the title of which was “Holy Shit! Midgets! We’re totally going to Kunming!!!”
I didn’t really want to pry.
But! It turns out that there is a real life dwarf commune in Kunming, China.
More Evidence
Apparently, the citizens of said commune live in little mushroom-shaped houses and dress up to perform for tourists. Either this is Chinese kitsch reaching new and horrifying heights, or a really sly stab at irony.
Is this an actual refuge for little people? A blatant tourist trap? A backwards attempt to glorify vertically-challenged Chinese while actually kind of exploiting them? Totally weird? Something that would probably only happen in China?
Yes.
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