Americans don’t realize how much of their internet experience is exclusively on American domains, owned by American media companies, and frequented almost entirely by Americans and Europeans. All others are the exception to the rule. White Americans in particular despise the idea of learning another language, so it’s unlikely they ever have to suffer through interacting with another culture.
The most powerful reddit post I ever saw before leaving that platform permanently was a massive post with citations detailing virtually every fictionalized aspect of Holodomor with links to sites for each claim.
At the bottom of the post, they put something like “Source: I lied. All of the links debunk this shit. Hopefully someone will accidentally use these in an argument and look dumb.”
It got removed by admins at some point.
Even the poster making the rebuttal is a little wrong. My friends and family in Mainland China are aware of the firewall and almost never mention it, let alone joke about it all the time. To them it is just a mild inconvenience but nothing that they care to really challenge. VPN usage has also risen but it is not as commonplace as this person seems to think it is. Not that it matters because China has the infrastructure to create its own social media ecosystem that satisfies its people.
Do these people not realise you can just talk to a Chinese person about these things?
I was curious about whether or not China had light displays for Christmas. I looked up on YouTube. There were a few walk around videos showing off Christmas lights in Chinese cities. ~5,000 views. Between two of the results was a video titled something like China CANCELS Christmas with some kkkracka in a poor fitting suit sitting at his dining room table with an awful looking green screen behind him. 50,000 views and comments like “YES SIR THANK YOU FOR KEEPING US INFORMED SIR.”
EDIT: the cancel video has 635K views now
Entirely anecdotal but when I was staying in China for a while the supermarket near me went absolutely all out for christmas, no place where I live in NA does that anymore. So if anything China is apart of the vanguard defending christmas or something.
Its ridiculous how much propaganda about China is obviously disproved from spending just a few hours there
there’s a genre of posts by western college students who talk to Chinese international students. They ask them about social credit and Winnie the Pooh and other weird shit, and they’re flabbergasted when the Chinese student has no idea what the hell they’re on about lol
Sadly, most of them use that as “proof” of their brainwashing. They’re “forced” to pretend to be ignorant to trick westerners.
The actual function of the great firewall isn’t keeping Chinese posters in but keeping Facebook out
