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.

  • godlessworm [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    301·
    13 hours ago

    i’m about to sound like a wet blanket but i gotta complain about the americans.

    i do like that chinese and americans are connecting, but what i did see that i don’t like is you have a bunch of thirsty ass dudes commenting on all of the women’s appearances, basically like virtual sexpats. i really wouldn’t doubt it if a lot of these men think “once this–i’m assuming very poor chinese lady sees ME, an american comment, she’ll come have sex with me thinking i’m rich and giving her american citizenship, which i also baselessly assume she is desperate to have, since china sucks so bad”.

    and then, i saw this one american woman just frankly being so fucking cringe and annoying. she had her phone held up so you could only see the top half of her face and head, looking like the mf las vegas dome, doing a super exaggeration yelling laugh immediately as the video starts playing, yelling “GUYS!!!”. then she did the yell/laugh thing through her whole video, and i was just like damn, this person is very unpleasant.

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      10 hours ago

      and then, i saw this one american woman just frankly being so fucking cringe and annoying. she had her phone held up so you could only see the top half of her face and head, looking like the mf las vegas dome, doing a super exaggeration yelling laugh immediately as the video starts playing, yelling “GUYS!!!”. then she did the yell/laugh thing through her whole video, and i was just like damn, this person is very unpleasant.

      That’s like half of TikTok. I don’t know why so many people decide to take video of their foreheads while their microphone peaks trying to pick up whatever background audio they’re trying to record a live reaction to.