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rednote is a great app. i never really got into tiktok but i love rednote.

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    She has a car and a house and lives a wealthy life in the city. From her fluent English, we can tell that she is a college-educated person.

    In China, a woman who can speak English and fluent Mandarin is definitely well educated. According to her education level, her income is not low.

    People need to make a note of this. This is the general userbase of XHS, it’s a microcosm of Chinese society, it’s not really representative of the average. As a general rule, anyone who comes from a non western/global south country whose lingua franca is not English, and can speak/communicate in English fluently (and not a dialect of English that’s learnt from TV/social media/videogames/using translation software), is generally wealthier than most people from their country. Don’t believe everything you see on the internet.

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      speak/communicate in English fluently is generally wealthier than most people from their country.

      This gets really obvious when talking to Venezuelans being reactionary. They’ll write English like a native speaker, then when you ask them what their family does, they’ll tell you they own their own company. And it’s like “Oh. So you hate socialism because the communists took away your rental properties.”

      The Venezuela stuff was making its rounds back in 2016ish when the US failed to do a coup. So a bunch of reactionaries who fled the country after failing were all over online lamenting about it.