After dicking around on Little Red Book (apologies because I keep forgetting the phonetic spelling but obv its name isn’t English) i can say that as far as im seeing all of the Americans are being really respectful and eager to learn and all of the Chinese are super welcoming and happy to have us over there and genuinely this might be the start of the end of anti-Chinese racism at least in a portion of the internet community because everyone is having a really sweet time together just talking to each other. Idk it just makes me happy
Things that are happening on xhs (xiaohongshu) (Little Red Book) as of today:
- the cat tax is real and THIS specific image keeps getting posted in the comments of American posts
- everyone keeps making Chinese spy jokes on both sides of the language barrier and everyone thinks it’s hilarious
- something like half my explore page is beginner mandarin classes
- there’s a culture amongst the Americans forming of “do NOT fuck this one up guys, we are in their house and we will be POLITE” which I really love
- in the same vein, im seeing posts go around of people encouraging each other to google translate their posts to mandarin so the app natives don’t have to translate it themselves, again as a sort of “you guys were here first and we don’t want to make things more inconvenient”
- a lot of people very unironically being like “wow I didn’t know we all had so much in common and you guys are super based” (from both sides) is going on
-the amount of English homework getting passed over to us to do is insane
- Americans are bad at English homework and keep accidentally giving the wrong answers
- this:
pretty well encompasses the vibe of the American TikTok refugee side of xhs right now
-at this point it’s mildly unusable for me because I don’t have convenient access to google translate on my phone and Americans are so good about translating to mandarin that they aren’t even putting the English version in their posts anymore. which is epic ngl
