It’s been nice to see ordinary Americans open up to life in China but everyone is acting blind to their censorship. Makes me thankful for the fediverse and being able to self host my own instance.
One of the most cringe things I’ve ever read.
You should move to China and stop posting in English comms if you feel this way.
the real name of this app in chinese is “Little Red Book”
surprised?
No, it’s an accurate translation. It just doesn’t mean what people think it means because they don’t know what the Chinese call the so-called “Little Red Book” of Mao’s quotations.
You’re right.
But also if you wanted to be a pedant you could argue that translation is not the mere act of literally converting the words from one language to another, but also concerns considering the cultural contexts of the languages and how best to convey the information such that the closest understanding is achieved. In this case you would want to avoid the linguistic connotation that exists in the target language but not the source language. So one could argue that “rednote” or possibly “red booklet” are maybe the most accurate translations.
I can read Chinese. Maoist thought and censoring of Mao should not be connected lol
In English, Mao’s book is called the “little red book” but that’s not the case in China. The direct translation of what they call it in China is “red treasure book”. As such, the name of the app only seems like a Mao reference to people who translated xiaohongshu into English.
I’ve noticed a very pro-China shift on Lemmy since Trump became president. Yeah, Trump is awful, but it’s not like that makes China or Russia better. It makes them all bad.
Pro or anti X nation state rhetoric is rarely helpful. I fully agree that blind support of another country just because it’s not the US is just silly. I don’t know what you mean by all bad. How’re you labeling all three of those countries?
Have you been to China? The thing that is affecting so many US users on xiaohongshu is waking up to how many aspects of Chinese daily life and society are actually better than the supposed best country in the world. This has been my experience on my most recent of many times in China. It shocking how many issues and stressors exist in America that don’t in China.
I don’t know what you mean by all bad. How’re you labeling all three of those countries?
Do you have your head under a rock? Over the past few years China has been putting the Uighur people in concentration camps while Russia has been invading and genociding Ukrainians.
No, China hasn’t. There has been no evidence.
We know how much information should get out of a state with complete control over the flow of information, via Palestine and Ukraine’s respective genocides. Instead of any of that, we have vague, contradictory accusations from Islamic extremists. The uighur people control Xinjiang, and thanks to investment it’s flourishing.
China killed Islamic extremism via education and improving material conditions; that’s not acceptable to the West, so they made up a story.
No, because I don’t fall for the propaganda. I’ve met one of the NYT reporters on that and their sources were three Ugyhurs and trust me. I’m guessing you don’t speak Chinese and have zero knowledge of it besides MSN?
The westerner that has never been to China and doesn’t speak a word of mandarin is gonna lecture us on China.
I think to each their own. My wife spent two weeks in China for work, and she’s still traumatized from it.
I think to each their own. My wife spent two weeks in China for work, and she’s still traumatized from it.
What
Edit: oh his wife just can’t handle new experiences.
You definitely need to tell us what happened with your wife. Can’t just write something like that and leave it hanging!
It shocking how many issues and stressors exist in America that don’t in China.
Youth unemployment, falling birth rates, spotty healthcare infrastructure, bad working conditions
Which ones does China not have?
Awwww, you poor thing.
They didn’t see you as a useful idiot so they leveraged their hatred for what you are and banished you.
Leopards are hungry on both sides of the line.
Well yeah, Mao Zedong is kinda like Chinese Muhammad or Chinese Charlemagne (not supporting the guy, but still). Were you not expecting to catch some passionate attention? I mean, I’d also ask that of everyone; China is kind of known for censoring things, like Italians and cheese or Icelanders and their elves, so it’s weird to see people think the equivalent of “I’m going to a flock of crows dressed up as an owl because it’s exercising freeeeeeeedom!”
I don’t “support” that from a Chinese government perspective, as their journey for power and reach, like a lot of territorial groups, involved lots of death and domination over things that couldn’t “ethically” be owned, but from a service owner’s perspective, I mean, if it’s rightfully the child of your own two hands, it’s just your right to ban as you wish.
