Glad I wasn't talking out of my ass

(That data is from UNESCO if they ask)

They are always trying to question me and prove that China is the best and then get it turned around when they learn the truth

Then a bunch of excuses come out

And they don't trust the data

http://data.uis.unesco.org/

Saying they are racist against Chinese

word of warning tho : unesco is darn timesink with that dataportal

its almost worse than daytripping to wikipedia

Haha

there is data from "repeatters in primary education"

and same data as % and so on

https://lambda.sx/maSs.png

all that data

funfact "goverment expenditure on education as % of GPD" > china is just ------

on hong kong at least its reportted ~3%

@kaetaa The simplification for literacy thing seems pretty bullshit though. Taiwan's literacy rate is still greater than the mainland's iirc. The set of characters that are simplified (and used in day to day life) isn't that large to begin with and if you know trad. or simp., you could learn the other in pretty much no time.

basically, the problem is china

China didn't dumb down their writing system to increase literacy but to prevent information exchange with the ROC

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It's funny because mainland chinks I've spoken to can all read my traditional

granted, theyre probably not poor people

Educated ones, do. But, educated ones can also speak English and obtain an even wider amount of information

Can confirm that anyone over the age of 30 cannot even comprehend traditional

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might just be a tier 3 thing or would you say it's true for 2nd and 1st tier cities too? @kaetaa

then again, education was quite patchy up until several decades ago so i could believe it

Man in my 2nd tier city they had a hard time understanding simplified

People in China can hardly communicate with each other just speaking Mandarin

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Well, try to explain westeners that chinese isn't necessarly the same

most older people in guangdong can read traditional

if they struggle, they probably struggle with simplified

simplified is not really a lot simplier since you still end up just trying remembering the word the way it is

年青人都應該識讀，係咪？

younger people just never encounter it

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by now everyone younger than 30 would never practically used traditional

speaking Cantonese is slightly different

its a bit like Hakka language