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Things I learned about China from 72 hours on Xiaohongshu:

-They do not pay property tax (and yes they do own their own homes - not state owned) which is partly why they have so few homeless people.

-They pay way less for groceries.

-They have beautiful Christmas markets.

-They enjoy freedom of religion but are not allowed to evangelize or go door to door preaching.

-They are appalled that we have to pay for ambulances here.

-They have their own cowboys and rancher subculture.

-Mandarin sentence structure is almost just like English (subject, verb, object).

-My name is 杰西卡 🙂

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Thekid.999 11mo ago

Bye go to china hahahahaha

There no place like America

Jessica Chasteen 11mo ago

Byyyyeeee

Jessica Chasteen 11mo ago

Oh and I forgot to mention: They are super nice! But I guess I already knew that from having met Chinese folks in real life.

ronniesamuel 11mo ago

nostr:npub1r8wdfruydenz84fxfespcswuhcvyatx6umtd5xguexup49u500xskf50hn , I would like to know what my name is. GM Jessica. 😂 🫂 💜 ☕️ 🌹

Jessica Chasteen 11mo ago

罗尼!

Romuna 11mo ago

Their humour was ✨scintillating ✨

Jessica Chasteen 11mo ago

The memes 🤣 in only 3 days time, millions of Americans were like: I’m learning Mandarin for these memes

Peter Alexander 11mo ago

That is great and I’ve been loving all the cultural interaction. If you have any further question on #China - or anyone else does - feel free to ask. I’ve been here (am American) for a long long time.

Jessica Chasteen 11mo ago

Oh cool! Yeah they’re already starting to kick the Americans back off Xiaohongshu, but they can’t unring millions of bells.

Peter Alexander 11mo ago

Completely agree. Have spent literal decades of time attempting to “explain” #China to America’s. Last weeks interactions did more than I could have ever hoped for.

I tell everyone that I’m in near full agreement with all critiques leveled at China. It is the fact that the critiques are woefully incomplete in how they are delivered. Thats what’s been my Sisyphean journey.

China isn’t “nuanced”. China is just different. On all fronts.

Jessica Chasteen 11mo ago

It has been so precious to see. And it might be a real moment of reckoning for the people who have pushed fear and propaganda onto us for so long. Perhaps we are entering the “finding out” stage after all.