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 🙂