My question is how these US folks DID NOT know all this. I dwelled in English medium Internet all my life until recently. I have known all of this waaaaaay before the ๅฐ็บขไนฆ (Little Red Book) wave. The Internet isn't walled for the Americans? And yet, the Chinese who are behind the Great Firewall knows more about American politicsโฆ. a mystery for the ages.
PS: There are folks from China who use VPN to access English social media.
#RedNote #Xiaohongshu #Tiktokban #TiktokRefugee
Dave Rahardja
in reply to Elizabeth Tai | ๆด็ง้ ๐ฒ๐พ • • •Sensitive content
As an ASEAN-born person who naturalized into the US, one thing I painfully notice is that there are a *ton* of โthought killer phrasesโ here that people use to prevent US citizens from criticizing their own country.
Things like โwe are the greatest country in the worldโ and โwe love freedomโ and โI earned what I ownโ and any number of other trite appeals to just leave things alone is SO embedded into our national psyche, that itโs almost impossible to have a discussion that doesnโt get zapped by one of these trip wires. Itโs more comfortable for people to withdraw into self-delusional circles where no one challenges the system, because youโll find a great number of friends who do nothing but agree with you.
Because we are unable to talk about our problems, we arenโt able to appreciate that we *have* problems. Itโs refreshing to see foreigners criticize the US on the Internet in a way that those short-circuit phrases cannot stop.