I'm traveling in Vietnam and the local friends that I've made all agree that the most liberalizing / westernizing force is Vietnamese-American Facebook friends.

I'm traveling in Vietnam and the local friends that I've made all agree that the most liberalizing / westernizing force is Vietnamese-American Facebook friends. It seems like just the passive influence of friends living in a different culture can have an impact. I wonder if the same thing would happen over time in China? As it stands it's kinda tough to maintain past friendships that I've made traveling in China. As soon as I stopped using WeChat, all those friendships died.