Why does Japan have a higher literacy rate than America when they have to learn 3 scripts and thousands of kanji
>>217206353I’m guessing it’s because homeschooling and GDE are a thing in the US.
No child left behind
>>217206353zainichi blacks
>>217206353zainichi latinx
>>217206353They haven't conducted a national scale literacy test since like 1952 and also literacy means different things to different levels of education. Being college level literate is different than being primary or secondary school literate it doesn't have much to do with basic reading generally.
>>217206353zainichi natives
>>217206873Literate just means you can read and write. By your bizarre definition, someone can be simultaneously literate or illiterate depending on whether they’re familiar with some paper’s jargon.
>>217206913Not my definition that's how they conduct national literacy tests and why people say things like 'reading at university level' even colloquially. Most of the private statistics that people focus on reading levels for whatever reason, almost no one cites national level literary statistics because it's almost 100% across the board in virtually any country with an education system. The PIAAC puts US average at 272 and European average at 270. Neither matter because those are very close to being perfect scores at the lower levels. If you only count people at the lower levels of reading then almost every country would be 100%.https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/international_context.asp>The proficiency-level figures display some combined levels so that users can readily see broad patterns in the data. For example, in literacy and numeracy, the top category combines Levels 3, 4, and 5
>>217207138>can readily see broad patterns in the dataThat's literally analytic reasoning, not literacy.
Japanese government abolished most kanji as far as government documents go.
>>217207161They count it as literacy in the test, otherwise the rate of literacy is 100%. Even the NAAL doesn't count 'literacy' as just reading and they're the ones who do national surveys.> Recent data indicates that approximately 54% of U.S. adults read below a sixth-grade level, with about 45 million adults reading below a fifth-grade level (often referred to as functionally illiterate), according to www.nu.edu. You're functionally illiteracy if you can't read at a fifth-grade level and they make you read novels in like the fourth grade. Basically if you can't read a novel you count as illiterate.
>>217207257>they count X as Y in the testOk, great, opinion discarded.
>>217206353most of us have "readable, but can't remember how to write kanji" for example, if you ask random Japanese person that if you can read kanji 旅, 99.9% of Japanese can read it but some people are forgetting how to write.
no blacks, no hispanics
>>217207363Only if there was a phonetics based writing system where you could write any word you know without memorizing third world scriptsI wonder
>>217207458I think it's the same thing in English too. You can read diarrhea but some people are struggle to write it.
>>217207458In the Middle Ages Japanese nobles mocked hiragana for being too easy. Complexity is kind of the point.
>>217207500No, even people who can barely read Mother Goose can write.
>>217207590ok then it's different from kanji. we sometimes use smartphone to remember kanji when we suddenly have to write official paper.
>>217206353because thay are not retards, unlike americans
>>217206353it's their environment, reading is encouraged exactly because they have to remember a lot of kanji characters, that's not all there is to it, I mean, even in public spaces they keep quiet and try not to bother each other, in foreign countries like ours this is unheard of, people mock each other for reading and they are very noisy, I assume you can confirm
