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.
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 not exactly representative of your average US American - it’s a bunch of post-reddit dweebs obsessed with an extremely narrow understanding of politics as posting
Lemmy.world is full of extremely bad liberal takes and they get their panties in a twist if you call out the democrats bullshit re their so called “progressive” policies that are half baked and never implemented because they’re a spineless and ineffectual party who only cares about protecting the desires of their corporate donors.
lemmy.world is hitlerites, while the average Amerikkkan is a treatlerite.