As most of you know the US is probably gonna ban TikTok, and because of that many Americans are moving to China’s homegrown equivalent of Instagram: Xiaohongshu (literally: little red book)/ Rednote.
I think this is a good opportunity for us as communists to seize, because unlike TikTok, Xiaohongshu is one app for both China and the rest of the world. Thus it’s dominated by Mainland Chinese posters showing their lives, hobbies, etc, which are very similar (in terms of hobbies) or better (in terms of living conditions) than Americans, whereas that wouldn’t have been the case on TikTok as China and the rest of the world have separate apps.
For many already disillusioned Americans who may have had a negative view towards China (which is most Americans), this would shatter the illusion for some and potentially open their eyes to the success of socialism, and an alternative to the current capitalist system; spurring them on to radicalization.
Therefore I think that we should seize on this moment to jump on the bandwagon in order to educate Americans or just to show what China is really like. Especially because after a while the US will probably want to ban this app too. So there may not be a lot of time. What do you guys think?
By all means educate, but don’t violate 小红书’s apolitical community policy.
They want to do ‘show’ rather than ‘tell’. We should let China cook. It’s their kitchen.
The white man burden is too strong, its impossible to pass the urge to explain to Chinese people how China works.
But I wanna make jokes about white people to black people in the dmv how can I do that to a white and Chinese audience?
Therefore I think that we should seize on this moment to jump on the bandwagon in order to educate Americans or just to show what China is really like.
The only thing we can do is encourage people to download the app so they can interact with people from China. Its not like we can do a better job explaining China than the actual chinese citizens.
This is on the App Store today
#1 in social media
It’s a golden opportunity to educate USians. I’ve been trying to get in since yesterday but the message never comes 😔
We don’t even need to do anything xhs is more red than us. But yes we should participate.
Exactly, its just encourage people to try the app, the login process might be hard for the average person since the UI is in Mandarin as default so we should help on this regard.
i opened the play store and this is what i saw
word sure spreads fast
I need to learn Mandarin, but I have been greatly enjoying the media, both English speaking and not. Lots of solid memes, even some great Mandarin tutorials for basic words.
All right, I literally just asked about this on another post but I’m downloading that shit.
