garden_variety_jess on Nostr: GM 🌞 something I learned this week is that almost all Chinese children had to ...

GM 🌞 something I learned this week is that almost all Chinese children had to write a mock pen pal letter and sign it as “Li Hua” (basically our John/Jane Doe) to pass their English exams in school. So now that the Americans have shown up on Xiaohongshu, we have been writing “Dear Li Hua” replies to our new Chinese friends saying things like “sorry it took so long to receive your letters” and “as children we all dug holes to try to reach you”, and the response to this has been so precious, I can barely even describe it to you. It’s like our inner children reached across the Pacific Ocean and held hands with each other. 🥹😭 one of my replies said, “What happened in the past few days has given me some hope for the future of mankind. Although we are all ordinary people, the foundation of the future of mankind lies in ordinary people like us. Each of us has a little light in us. If these lights can be connected, the future will not be so dark.” 😭😭😭❤️‍🩹