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I think a good chunk of America had their "Soviets seeing an American supermarket" moment on Red Note when they got to see what city life is actually like in Ch
by Spivak 2y ago
I think a good chunk of America had their "Soviets seeing an American supermarket" moment on Red Note when they got to see what city life is actually like in China from the perspective of regular people.
- throwawayq3423 2y agoRed Note is Instagram for rich kids. If China managed to frame their upper class as ordinary, good for them. Propaganda win for their regime. Not sure why we are making that mistake here.
- riehwvfbk 2y agoTry actually traveling outside the US. It's eye opening. The rest of the world has been developing and the US has been backsliding. It's impossible not to notice.
- throwawayq3423 2y agoKind of seems like you are avoiding my point, or throwing up a straw man to argue against instead (with a dig at US for good measure). Of course there are more rich people in China today than there were in decades past. That doesn't mean a rich kid of Red Note is good representation of the average Chinese, who is still poorer than the average Mexican, and trending in the wrong direction.
- Spivak 2y agoInstagram is Instagram for rich kids, I know. But like I am ostensibly also a rich kid (probably) by your metric. And I have a very nice looking aesthetic social profile, I know how it translates to what real life is. At this point, that's just basic media literacy.
- throwawayq3423 2y agoYou are missing my point. The average Red Note influencer is not the average Chinese citizen. I guess you could say the same for IG, but not one is holding up rich kids on IG as the typical American.