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Thread: Which is better? Simplified Chinese Character or Traditional Chinese?

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[quote=SANYACHINA,231309]"Sanyachina, the problem with your argument is that literacy rates in China, including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao where traditional characters are used, are actually pretty good."

Comparing with the time before the Revolution. Of course today is not so good, but at least people can use Pinyin, so it is some progress!

"On this table 
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2003/indicator/indic_2_1_1.html
Hong Kong has a literacy rate of 93.5%, China (meaning the Mainland, I guess) comes in at 85.8%, which is significantly better than many countries that use the phonetic systems of writing you seem to idolise (Algeria 67.8%, Iran 77.1%, Guatemala 69.2%, India 58%...)"

Excuse me, but I was talking about developed societies. Please do not give me examples with countries where people eat without spoon/chopsticks, living in the junngles, do not wash bodies often, etc.
At least I am glad you didn't mention Papua-New Guinea or Swaziland. :)
 Instead of this TELL ME what is easier:

a/ To learn 26 to 50+ letters

b/ To learn 8 000+ characters?

"It would seem that literacy has less to do with writing systems and more to do with access to quality education, and in that respect China is doing pretty well for itself, even with Chinese characters."

"EVEN" was the keyword !
 And anyway, TELL ME WHY:

a/ A 7 years old Russian boy can read every Russian text.
 b/ A 20 years old Chinese man sometimes can't read even "Renmin Ribao" without dictionary?[/quote]

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