But at what cost?
Is the ministry of education in China a reliable source?
I’m going to go with yes. 97% isn’t an unreasonable literacy rate for a country, being similar to those of Greece, the Philippines, Turkey, and Chile. It would also make sense given the emphasis that has been put on education
Forgive me for being sceptical. I’ve worked with a lot of Chinese researchers who have said outright that I should never cite a paper from China unless it’s published in nature or I know the authors personally (because it’s so often falsified).
Even the CIA world fact book says 97% lmao
I’m not sure if I get that correctly but are you making fun of people protesting against homelessness? Besides: I’m not a native speak but the sign seems totally fine to me and the message totally valid.
Thanks for this insight which adds nothing to the conversation since OP already answered me and I agreed with them
I think the pictures were chosen to contrast the conditions the kids are in. Kids in China are in classrooms getting education while children in US are protesting homelessness.
literacy rates in socialist countries be like
I hate to rain on y’all’s parade, but the US measure of literacy is much more stringent than China’s. America is counting literacy as the ability to use print materials like brochures and manuals fluently, the rest of the world just bases literacy on the ability to read a handful of test sentences in a controlled testing context. That’s the reason that America appears to have gone down as well, they switched literacy measures. The 79% measure is people who are “at or below level 1 literacy”, meaning it counts people who met level 1, people who didn’t meet level 1, and people who couldn’t even take the test at all because of a language barrier or disability. https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179.pdf
I’m all for dunking on America but the apples to apples here would be comparing America’s 96% (just excluding those below level 1) to China’s 97%. Historical materialism requires a true material basis to work.
So what you’re saying is that this post is essentially misinformation? So many upvotes…
