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美国女孩 (American Girl) - About Taiwanese girls that lived their early childhood in the US but their mom is bringing them back to Taiwan and the struggle they go through to adapt.
Kinda resonate with me as a Chinese American... I always wondered what (re-)visiting China would be like... but I kinda don't feel like going due to political reasons.
But then again I could visit Taiwan...
(Set in 2003 so it sort of changed my perspective on the whole Firewall of China thing...
In the movie, in Taiwan, their home internet doesnt work and had to use an internet cafe
So I thought about it...
Before the internet existed, its essentially a firewall that filtered 100% of everything (cuz non existence of internet is practically the same as having a firewall that blocks all traffic)
So a firewall doesn't even seem that crazy anymore considering I didn't even get internet up to 2010 when we emigrated from China... like you can still just smuggle in banned books and hope border agents don't check it... if one truely wishes to see the outside world, they could, the firewall is for normies, you can climb it if you're brave)