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From https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/14phpbq/how_is_it_possible_that_roughly_50_of_americans/

Question above is pretty blunt but was doing a study for a college course and came across that stat. How is that possible? My high school sucked but I was well equipped even with that sub standard level of education for college. Obviously income is a thing but to think 1 out of 5 American adults is categorized as illiterate is…astounding. Now poor media literacy I get, but not this. Edit: this was from a department of education report from 2022. Just incase people are curious where that comes from. It does also specify as literate in English so maybe not as grim as I thought.

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[-] Magister@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Same everywhere. I think 53% of people in Quebec are functional illiterate. There is an article today about French students being illiterates too.

The educational system wants this. I start to think it's by design.

[-] TooSoon@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

As in they’re literate in English but the government decided to stop offering services in English thereby making citizens functionally illiterate?

[-] penguin_knight@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

i'm guessing peobably the opposite? they're literate in french but the national test is in english.

[-] Magister@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No, nothing to do with language. Functional illiterate means you can read, you know how to read, but you don't really understand the meaning of what you are reading. Maybe Trump is a functional illiterate for instance :)

[-] benvoyondon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The same applies in the ROC (Rest of canada) when dealing with their French minority. Latest example is in New-Brunswick where the premier faces an onslaught by eliminating the French as a second language programme.

Alberta done that in the 1920’s without recriminations by closing down French only schools.

Ontario is not better underfunding French services.

[-] TooSoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t disagree.

[-] benvoyondon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

@toosoon You must be ill-informed, quite biased and in favour of Québec bashing. The government has English translations available for its minority in “La belle province”. Educate yourself. The information is out there.

http://www.education.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/site_web/documents/publications/DepStatAlpha_eng.pdf

[-] TooSoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

That’s all well and good, until you read about bill 96..

[-] benvoyondon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

I’m a frog, kiss me. Bill 96 is excellent as tabled . I don’t need to wait. If you’re not happy with it, do like me and GTFO . You are ROC material to light up the culture war. Join them and you will feel more at home. You must be too illiterate to be able to read between the line or fucking blind.

[-] TooSoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I’m sorry I genuinely could not follow most of that word salad. Care to try again, preferably in English this time?

[-] benvoyondon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Speak White, you say. Hmm… … bigot! That is why we will never cross the cultural divide between the two solitudes in canada if on either side we refuse to acknowledge our differences.

[-] TooSoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Feel free to speak in whatever ethnicity you want so long as type out a full sentence with at least a hint of what your point is trying to be.

The problem with your last comment isn’t slang words or grammar, it was a complete lack of logical flow and endless run-on sentences with no point to be found anywhere.

[-] benvoyondon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

I bet that the English cucumber in my French salad leaves you speechless. You’re killing me pointlessly with your words.

[-] TooSoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Are you translating french idioms into english and expecting it to make sense?

[-] benvoyondon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

No and it wouldn’t make any difference in any language anyhow. Even less in your neck of the woods.

[-] TooSoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Wait are you actually saying what you’ve typed doesn’t make sense in any language? I’m so confused.

[-] benvoyondon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
  • [ ] Not so fast. My colloquial digression from the subject of worldwide illiteracy followed your assumption that Québec educational policy was making anglophones illiterates which I do not agree with just so you could further your quite succinct crass political agenda to National governmental affairs in your next comment (Bill 96).
  • [ ] You cannot read between the lines because your biased intercultural approach is monolithic and exclusive.
  • [ ] I am exasperated by your sarcastic bullshit. So fuck off you bloody cunt!
[-] TooSoon@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

I swear to god I keep trying my damn hardest to understand the words that come out of your mouth but it just keeps sounding like you’re using a synonym generator like a 15 year old who just discovered the right click menu in microsoft word 2016 and thinks his homework sounds so sophisticated but it’s just a big ol’ word salad with absolutely no resemblance to a coherent point anywhere.

[-] benvoyondon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Well The Fuck. Keep believing in your "fairy tales" and swear by it all of your devoted lifetime if you like... ...Not too soon enough your tower of babel is showing untold signs of weakness from your troubled mind through your poisonous twisted tongue. Irrationality is your forte I can see.

[-] benvoyondon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Linux is my shepherd, I shall not want.

[-] TooSoon@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Okay I was actually able to follow that, you did a much better job of keeping one faint shred of coherent thought in there (barely).

Unfortunately that thought was you either being a troll or a dumbass (my money’s on troll). Either way, I’m out chief, enjoy the rest of your day.

[-] benvoyondon@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah enjoy your monocultural illiteracy. Keep farming

[-] TooSoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Lmao you clearly don’t even understand what that term means.

[-] benvoyondon@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

The term term is a term you never specified . In terms of clarity you’re the joke.

[-] benvoyondon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a frog, kiss me. Bill 96 is excellent as tabled . I don't need to wait. If you're not happy with it, do like me and GTFO. You are ROC material to light up the culture war. Join them and you will feel more at home. You must be too illiterate to be able to read between the line or fucking blind.

[-] Medster87@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not everywhere, in Saudi Arabia it's between 3% and 0.6% illiteracy amongst adults.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Functional illiteracy isn't the same thing as illiteracy.

[-] Medster87@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Just checked and apparently worldwide the average is around 15% functional illiteracy...

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