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I don't have time to go through everything wrong with your post but I want to touch on Chinese vs American literacy rates for a moment
In America while the total population literacy rate is often cited at 99%, functional literacy (the ability to manage daily living and employment tasks) is lower, with estimates placing it between 65% and 85%.
China's literacy rate has grown from 79% in 1982 to 97% in 2020.
In 2018 PISA results,15-year-olds in China outperformed U.S. peers in reading, math, and science. Some analyses suggest about 20% of U.S. 15-year-olds do not read as well as they should by age 10.
In the 2018 PISA China ranked first globally in all subjects. The U.S. ranked roughly 13th in reading and 37th in math among 79 education systems
Youth literacy in the U.S. is facing a crisis, with 25% of 16-to-24-year-olds deemed functionally illiterate as of 2023, up from 16% in 2017. Roughly 60% of U.S. teens do not read at grade level, and 34% of fourth-graders perform below basic reading levels.
In 2020, youth (15–24) literacy in China reached 100%.
Nothing you said contradicts anything I wrote, so I'm struggling to understand why you started your comment this way. To say "everything wrong with my post" then address nothing I wrote... I'm not sure you should be quoting literacy at all.
You'll find I'm highly critical of both China and the US once we discuss further.
Lastly, there is no chance in hell China's literacy reached 97%, not will it as long as rural lifestyle continues with no need for it.
"That isn't true because I personally am incredulous about it!"
Very compelling argument.
Oh idk I lived in China and the US. Hope about you? Do you have any personal experience to go off?
"My personal incredulity isn't enough for you? Well I also have unverified personal anecdotes!"
Uhuh. You're also getting schooled by an actual Chinese person elsewhere
No see his 6 months is worth more than my multiple decades because I accurately called him out on being a chauvinist, orientalist and fascist pig while pointing out the MANY issues with his "ideas" and that makes me "emotional".
Yeah, but he's Le Rational Westerner, he's different from the inferior foreigner.
He's carrying the white man's burden he just needs to reeducate all us untermensch about our real history that only he knows.
He just tried to argue that we should take his word on how evil China is because he went there and "learned from natives about what is really going on."
Of course that means that he must be believed, the actual "natives" themselves are all brainwashed savages
I am leaning hard on this being bait but also a lot of people across the western internet seem to genuinely believe a lot of what he says so I'm far from certain.
Agreed, I would believe it to be bait if it wasn't for the fact that I've heard similar shit in real life.
The abortion skyscraper was a new one alongside Starbucks for abortions but outside of that if you told a chat bot to act as a sinophobic debate bro he's hitting all the old classics of Mao's big spoon and so on.
Yep, but I've heard similar bullshit like the PLA having mandatory suicide helmets and whatnot, so at this point I'm not even surprised by it.
I feel sad for people like this honestly. Not knowing how bad it truly is for them since they have an imagined untermensch to punch down on.
That's how cultural hegemony is maintained in the imperial core, after all. Can't have a successful alternative or the whole thing crumbles.
It's an incredibly well executed bit if it is one, and the platonic ideal is Poes Law if it isn't
You think this angry, name calling, emotional person is schooling me? I'm a progressive on paper, the Bernie Sanders kind and they're calling me a Nazi. I'm shocked people would give this type of person a second of thought.
Feel free to ask them about Mao "accidentally" killing 30-50 million people with STARVATION in the name of their oh so beautiful system.
What about throwing musicians and professors in prison for speaking out against the overbearing government?
How about Tiananmen Square?
Does this person even know what these events are? The government actively covers it up to this day. The millennial generation doesn't even know what these are because it's forbidden.
Correct. Are you pro genocide like Bernie too?
No. That's why I usually say I'm a progressive on paper, but no modern politician represents that definition despite what they may call themselves. I like that Bernie would invest in the environment and tax the shit out corporations and billionaires though.
Progressive on paper, right wing weirdo in practice got it.
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Whatever eats at you, I hope improves. We're all in this life together.
I know this dude is banned so it's weird for me to comment but does anyone else find the lib tactic of insinuating emotional instability and mental unwellness in people to be ableist cliche at this point?
It is, along with finding ways to try to call you the r-slur without technically saying the specific word.
Fuck off back to reddit with this debatebro crap. I'm under no obligation to be nice to your racist ass. And why would I be? Multiple people have tried talking to you in good faith and got dismissed them out of hand. I'm not here to debate you, I'm here to tell you to fuck off.
So, a capitalist. And you're expecting communists to give you props for that?
Lol. I can see why you say you're only progressive on paper. In practice you're a standard western Cold War Warrior, repeating far right claims word for word. What argument are you even trying to make? None I suppose, just vomiting out talking points.
Yes, you racist fucking vermin.
Bullshit
Go back to reddit, you fucking nerd