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.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    53·
    16 hours ago

    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.

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      I wrote a long, detailed dismantling of a the sundae cherry comment “the US sometimes behaves badly but isn’t genocidal like China” atop a lot of barely-disguised sinophobic posting on a [redacted professional industry I work in sometimes] news site the other day. In part because that particular comment was so blatently an inversion of reality and partly because I’d had enough of how pervasive and unchallenged it was.

    • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      12·
      1 hour ago

      I didn’t join tik tok for two reasons:

      1 addictiveness

      2 China has a more robust surveillance system than the US does and are further along in facial recognition tech. I don’t want them getting a scan of my face. It’s bad enough the US likely has one because of my drivers license, but our tech hasn’t caught up to chinas yet. Or at least the implementation of it. I fully expect the worst of Chinas social credit stuff to be implemented in America as well as America importing Israel’s surveillance tech that they’ve mastered in their genocide of Palestinians. Im off the major social networks now but im deeply uneasy about where the world is heading. I don’t want anyone to have my data anymore whether it’s a Chinese based or US based or any other country based company. The data will one day be used against me.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      41·
      13 hours ago

      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?