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Thread: Which is better? Simplified Chinese Character or Traditional Chinese?
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[quote=CHRISWAUGHBJ,231158]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. 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%...) The figures are for adult literacy, defined as "The percentage of people aged 15 and above who can, with understanding, both read and write a short, simple statement related to their everyday life." 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.[/quote]
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