Things I learned about China from 72 hours on Xiaohongshu:
-They do not pay property tax (and yes they do own their own homes - not state owned) which is partly why they have so few homeless people.
-They pay way less for groceries.
-They have beautiful Christmas markets.
-They enjoy freedom of religion but are not allowed to evangelize or go door to door preaching.
-They are appalled that we have to pay for ambulances here.
-They have their own cowboys and rancher subculture.
-Mandarin sentence structure is almost just like English (subject, verb, object).
-My name is 杰西卡 🙂
garden_variety_jess / Jessica Chasteen
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