i've never seen so many americans excited about china and the chinese language. good stuff, folks

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[–] 98 points 2 years ago

If even .01% of the Americans joking about learning Chinese actually dip a toe into the language, culture, and (god forbid) history… mega self own from the us state

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As the redditors pissed about this love to cite... It's the Streisand Effect.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I finally started getting my verification codes. Like, hours later. It's an improvement.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    Whole lotta folks are gonna find out they have more in common with the FOREIGN ADVERSARY™'s citizens than with their own government

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Most Americans will just go to instagram/facebook/twitter unfortunately

    The great Satan won this round I’m afraid. Still though, I’m really curious to see some metrics (if those are even available anywhere)

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (19 children)

    I have a Chinese buddy who studied in America and now lives in Hong Kong. He tried to teach me how to pronounce stuff in Mandarin and oh my god its so hard.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    "how hard can it be if babies do it" is usually my mantra when I try learning languages

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Oh i bet the chinese users are stoooookkkeeddd about a bunch of yanks polluting their space

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    It's the internet, if regular people from different groups, especially Americans and Chinese, the former of whom's government and media has been fomenting a cold war and racist propaganda for decades, can get together and have regular interactions I see that as an absolute win.

    Luxemburg emphasized: “There can be no socialism outside the international solidarity of the proletariat.”

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    They don't care, and I'm have a feeling that the app will not put up with nonsense from foreigners. This is not a Meta subsidiary, don't forget.

    As an example (as others have mentioned on here) that your country (or province, if inside the PRC) is shown on your profile cause of all the trolling from the Taiwanese.

    If they need to ban Americans I'm sure they would, but why do that when you can just moderate them? At least give it a try...

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Found something a bit weird, on profiles it looks like it shows users’ “IP Address”? But also that’s not long enough to be an IP address, and it’s not even made up of numbers? Can someone who knows Chinese clarify what this is?

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    All major social media platforms in China were ordered by law to reveal IP location (just the cities) of their users since April 2022 because a lot of anti-Russia comments were made by Taiwanese trolls when the war in Ukraine started.

    Most Chinese people are Russia simps and the social media fights got really ugly flamed by trolls, so they decided to just reveal the IP location of the users instead.

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  • [–] [S] 31 points 2 years ago

    i can't help because the verification doesn't wori for me, but it's really cool to see

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    One of the first things I was served upon opening the app was a Frieran meme. China really pointed at me and said "weeb".

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Is there a trick to creating an account? I get errors whichever means of verification I try.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I tried to make an account months ago to practice Chinese, but it didn't work because of the verification texts. Let me know if someone has strats to make it more likely to go thru.

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Mark my words, if the Supreme Court finds out about this, they're overturning the Tiktok ban immediately.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It would be so fucking funny if this backfired so spectacularly that it resulted in the total collapse of the "China bad" narrative in the US.

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    [+] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    TinkTonk banned, users decided to use Chinese insta instead

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  • [+] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Cool to see!

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I downloaded the app but the UI is in Chinese

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