#favorite celebrity?

[wltsquareih]

Guess whose Birthday it is!!!

[cowgirls-blues]

Let me give you a hand.

[hood-ex]

All the Americans on RedNote/Xiaohongshu that are interacting with Chinese people for the first time and are realizing that our governments hate each other but that we can build community/friendship with Chinese people reminds me of a conversation I had with a student of mine.

For context, I taught kids from China how to speak English for 4 years. I had one student named Rain (his English name) from Guangzhou. He was about 9 years old, and I'd been teaching him since the very beginning of his English journey when he only knew very basic vocabulary like vegetables. He got to the point in his language learning where he could use simple words and sentences to talk about more complex subjects.

There was one class we had that I still think about to this day.

"What classes did you have at school today?" I asked. "Math? English? PE?"

"Math yes. English class yes. And... history," he said.

"Oh history? Nice," I said.

"Teacher, I don't like USA a little bit," he said.

"You don't like it? Why?" I asked.

"Because..." he tried to explain before realizing that he didn't have the words he needed to express himself. He switched to miming and drawing the USA fighting with/being mean to China.

"So you don't like the USA because the USA fights China? Hurts China?" I asked for clarification.

"Yes, yes, I don't like it a little bit," he nodded.

"Do you like USA people? I like people from China," I said.

"You like China people?" he asked.

"Yes, I love Chinese people," I said. "I don't like when the USA and China fight, but I love Chinese people."

"Me too!" he said. "Kind of don't like USA, but I like USA people."

In that moment, I was amazed that even with a language barrier, and even with our age difference, we could come to the same conclusion that we didn't like what our countries did to each other, but that didn't mean that he had to hate American people or that I had to hate Chinese people.

"USA people and Chinese people are kind of different," I said, referring to our cultural differences. "We are the same too."

"Yes, kind of the same," he agreed.

That's what many Americans on RedNote/Xiaohongshu are starting to understand better.

[anna-scribbles]

world’s normalest family wishes you a happy halloween!

bonus:

[disappointeddyke]

dyke bod

[crescentfool]

my longest friend and companion

[inkopolis-news-official]

to all of splatsville... happy holidays

[folklorefearlessts]

I can do it with a broken heart 🌚❤️

[httyd-art-requests]

2024/02/29

Happy Leap Day everyone! And...

Happy Birthday Hiccup!

[2aceofspades]

🖤 Happy Birthday EMD!! 🖤

Gah! I had so so SO much fun drawing the EMD boys again <3 <3

Y'all please go check out @evenmoreofadisaster 's 2 Year Dtiys here! -> ✨OG dtiys✨!!!

(:

[laurrelise]

one of my favorite parts about that scene in season 3 episode 7 of the umbrella academy is right after the umbrellas and sparrows “contained” the keugelblitz and celebrate by opening several bottles of alcohol and partying, because in every single shot ben is in, he’s either trying to get himself or five as wasted as possible

[stick-by-me]

What a time to be alive!

[iamjackstylerdurden]

i wonder if beatlemania people talked abt the beatles the same way people nowadays do. like was there a 15 year old girl in her bedroom in 1964 staring at a poster of paul mccartney saying “hes so cute i need to put him in a blender on high speed” while her friend nods excitedly

[shirmirart]

"but i’ve kissed your mouth, that corner, that place it goes, so many times now. i’ve memorized it. topography on the map of you, a world i’m still charting."

[kankuroplease]

Bad bug jokes with Shino and friends 🪲

Also featuring Boro’s girl, Reina~