I vaguely remember a user debunking this claim but I cannot find that comment and I don’t remember what post it was on.

  • ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml
    132·
    1 year ago

    Good point but it wouldn’t explain why their literacy rates are higher than even the West who have been industrialized and given every advantage

      • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        I think the implied question is how they started behind the advanced capitalist nations and came to rival or better them. Part of the literacy drive in China, for example was to shift from traditional to simplified characters. I’m actually curious as to whether any other (capitalist) country has done or could do anything similar. And whether this could be achieved without exercising state authority.