Let’s go!
But yea this is just a drop in the bucket. Every person I talk to in America has this warped view of China. The propaganda here is quite effective, cause even people who call themselves apolitical or barely know anything can recite anti-china talking points
That’s why direct interactions between people are so important. As soon as Americans start talking to the Chinese, they quickly realize that they’ve been fed bullshit their whole lives. And while it’s still a small number of people talking, I think it will grow because of networking effects. People will tell their friends, and they will get curious, and so on. I really think this is an incredibly important moment.
You can even track how effective it is over time. Negative views on china in the us and canada jumped 30% in like 15 years.
Americans realized China was serious about socialism and they weren’t going to fall into the same trap as the Soviets. IIRC it was around that time the CPC initiated a lot of purges and anti-corruption policies.
I thought MMOs and online gaming would do this when I was little, nah gamers can’t be helped.
Just about every game I’ve ever played has regional servers meaning that US players never get to interact with people from other countries, often not even English speaking Europe. There’s only a few exceptions to that like EVE Online and their large Russian communities, but even then the groups tend to self-segregate.
Things might be different if everyone was just always forced to play together.
What few Russian words I know are solely from staying up late and only finding Russians to play Left 4 Dead with lmao
