Seriously who could have guessed? Sure it might not amount to much but even the fact that people are learning that what the US has been teaching it’s people about China has been mostly lies is amazing.
There is no way in hell this could have ever happened even when I was a kid. People were simply too racist. They still are, but the fact that even the slight reduction in racism we have in modern day is enough that Chinese people and Westerners are coming together and being cool with each other online is nothing short of a miracle.
No wonder the US hegemony hates teaching it’s people foreign languages, no wonder it encourages xenophobia, that barrier was so powerful in keeping people from learning first hand what Americas “enemies” are really like.
It’s nice and it reminds me of why I like the internet (in a similar way to how discovering chapo.chat/hexbear did years ago). When I was young, the internet opened up my world from just my little town to the entire world. At the time, I was talking to people from Europe when previously I had barely talked to someone from a different town than me. The connectivity of the internet can be a beautiful thing, despite everything.