Seriously who could have guessed? Sure it might not amount to much but even the fact that people are learning that what the US has been teaching it’s people about China has been mostly lies is amazing.
There is no way in hell this could have ever happened even when I was a kid. People were simply too racist. They still are, but the fact that even the slight reduction in racism we have in modern day is enough that Chinese people and Westerners are coming together and being cool with each other online is nothing short of a miracle.
No wonder the US hegemony hates teaching it’s people foreign languages, no wonder it encourages xenophobia, that barrier was so powerful in keeping people from learning first hand what Americas “enemies” are really like.
Did people think Chinese people were ever evil? Videos of china on my feed are always positive
You’re probably a decent person and the algorithm put you in a bubble.
I asked on my group chat if people were thinking of switching over to xiaohongshu and received a response “why, so a Chinese steals my social security number?”
I think we still have a long way to go with this whole racism thing.
You’re very fortunate. Sinophobia is ‘baked into the cake’
as it were where I live. Chinese people are depicted as childlike, unscrupulous and brainwashed all at once as though they are ‘programmed’ by the CCP (CPC) to be spies for the country or rabid nationalists while still being shielded from the rest of the world behind the Great Firewall. Any basic normal day-to-day stuff, if done by a Chinese person, is instantly suspicious. Posting cute panda videos? It’s an insidious SoFt PoWeR pUsh. Buying infant formula? It’s China flexing its economic might to deprive western babies of nutrition. Highly coordinated dance? It’s brutal training to quash individualism (unless ofc its shenyun in which case it’s 4000 years of esoteric tradition and majesty…). Chinese people cannot exist or act in the west without being seen through the lense of the yellow peril.
I dunno what feed you mean because most westerners think China is an authoritarian dictatorship. There are a lot of people that won’t touch anything owned by Tencent simply because it’s Chinese. Youtube is flooded by social credit score and Winnie the Pooh Xi jokes. Outside of the internet the mainstream News is constantly harping on the “China Threat” and how it’s a threat to democracy. Those are just a handful of examples off the top of my head but even small stuff like all through my working life I’ve had co-workers used communism and Chinese as shorthand for bad. “Made in China” for example is shorthand for “badly made” when Westerners say it.
The flood of Chinese treats banned from the US being seen might unironically be the radicalisation trigger for the US.
We’ve had Treaterites but are you ready for Treatist-Leninists?
Cultural Marxist = ❌️
Treatist Leninist = ✅️
The dialectic really is ever in motion
considering “it’s chinese” is liberal for “it’s bad”, yeah I would say so
They think of them as scheming hordes incapable of independent thought or creativity.
I think most Americans barely think of them at all
Idk have you seen the Lemmy.world news feed. There’s at least one article on the Chinese threat per day.
lemmy.world is hitlerites, while the average Amerikkkan is a treatlerite.