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decades of US propaganda undone in just a few days of Americans interacting with Chinese netizens on Xiaohongshu
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But yea this is just a drop in the bucket. Every person I talk to in America has this warped view of China. The propaganda here is quite effective, cause even people who call themselves apolitical or barely know anything can recite anti-china talking points
You can even track how effective it is over time. Negative views on china in the us and canada jumped 30% in like 15 years.
What happened in 2015/2016 (ish?) to have that dip?
I imagine reactionary libs shifting their position in response to Trump's anti-China rhetoric.
The libs also laughed at Mitt Romney for saying Russia was a huge threat, now all those libs think Russia is going to conquer all of Europe.
Americans realized China was serious about socialism and they weren't going to fall into the same trap as the Soviets. IIRC it was around that time the CPC initiated a lot of purges and anti-corruption policies.
And one of the biggest executions of CIA spies in history
That's why direct interactions between people are so important. As soon as Americans start talking to the Chinese, they quickly realize that they've been fed bullshit their whole lives. And while it's still a small number of people talking, I think it will grow because of networking effects. People will tell their friends, and they will get curious, and so on. I really think this is an incredibly important moment.
I thought MMOs and online gaming would do this when I was little, nah gamers can't be helped.
Just about every game I've ever played has regional servers meaning that US players never get to interact with people from other countries, often not even English speaking Europe. There's only a few exceptions to that like EVE Online and their large Russian communities, but even then the groups tend to self-segregate.
Things might be different if everyone was just always forced to play together.
In games I played I went off what hours I'm available. As a child I had bad insomnia and ended up playing with east Asian guilds a lot, as a very young adult for a bit the only time I could play was during Euro hours.
What few Russian words I know are solely from staying up late and only finding Russians to play Left 4 Dead with lmao
One of my fav experiences was in college playing with an international crew, we didn't understand each other much but we knew we had to beat the other team.