"Muh literacy" was the same excuse for the invention of Bastardized Simplified Chinese. Entire words and ideas were wiped from existence, specifically ones the CCP found problematic.
Also, this mother tongue stuff is giving me serious Skull Face vibes. Destroy the language, destroy the people.
As to cultural erasure, look up how many German books (as well as others) the allies purged after winning. It's absolutely wild, and something I only learned about recently. Allies put the Nazis to shame, when it came to censorship.
They tried to use the excuse that it would improve literacy rates. But when they conducted a nation wide literacy test on Kanji, the average student scored 90%.
So they couldnt use "muh literacy rates" as an excuse either
John Pelzel of GHQ, based on the prejudice that "Japanese has many kanji characters, which makes it difficult to remember, and the literacy rate is slow to increase, which is delaying democratization
In August 1948 , the Ministry of Education's Educational Training and Research Institute (now the National Institute for Educational Policy Research ) conducted Japan's first nationwide survey, the "Survey on Literacy Ability of the Japanese People," targeting approximately 17,000 people between the ages of 15 and 64. The results showed that only 2.1% of people were unable to read or write kanji, proving the high literacy rate of the Japanese people.
After the test, Shibata was summoned by Perzel, who indirectly warned him that the results needed to show a low literacy rate. Shibata rebuffed, insisting that the results could not be compromised.
Kanji still ended up being simplified in the end anyways and the writing system was changed despite there being no reason to do so.
If you look into the Ottoman Empire, its collapse, and the rise of Atatürk you will see a similar story involving latinized writing, women's rights, and of course close ties with the Zionist west against Germany.
General MacArthur, who oversaw occupation and reconstruction, is generally well regarded in Japan due to his mercy and helpfulness, when vengeance would have been very easy. In fact, vengeance was expected as that was how imperial japan rolled.
Also replacing the alphabet doesn't even seem practical without absolute conquest - like murdering all teachers and shit. And as popular as the "america bad" narrative is, we were never that far gone.
Stalin was a dick, yes. Which makes a story of him in the early days of the Cold War stumbling into doing the right thing simply to fuck with his new enemies believable. Of course he didn't care about the Japs, but he had an opportunity to make things harder on us and apparently took it.
You don't believe it but its true. Look it up. They (John Pelzel a member of GHQ) even complained when they found out the literecy rates was high and told the guy who was responsible for setting up the Japanese litereacy test that it needed to show that it was low
Believe it or not Stalin even talked Mao out of romanizing the Chinese language also. Not quite sure why but its true. Look it up .
I'm not particularly fond of the Soviets, but I'm glad they opposed that.
I know a bit of Japanese (only the basics you'd get in a classroom), do you happen to know how/in what way they simplified the characters? Was it like the simplified Chinese deal where they removed meaningful components to simpler but meaningless strokes?
"Muh literacy" was the same excuse for the invention of
BastardizedSimplified Chinese. Entire words and ideas were wiped from existence, specifically ones the CCP found problematic.Control the language. Control the people.
I like to play Guess the Poster.
Telia.
I didn't even have to get to "Japanese."
Also, this mother tongue stuff is giving me serious Skull Face vibes. Destroy the language, destroy the people.
As to cultural erasure, look up how many German books (as well as others) the allies purged after winning. It's absolutely wild, and something I only learned about recently. Allies put the Nazis to shame, when it came to censorship.
They tried to use the excuse that it would improve literacy rates. But when they conducted a nation wide literacy test on Kanji, the average student scored 90%.
So they couldnt use "muh literacy rates" as an excuse either
John Pelzel of GHQ, based on the prejudice that "Japanese has many kanji characters, which makes it difficult to remember, and the literacy rate is slow to increase, which is delaying democratization
In August 1948 , the Ministry of Education's Educational Training and Research Institute (now the National Institute for Educational Policy Research ) conducted Japan's first nationwide survey, the "Survey on Literacy Ability of the Japanese People," targeting approximately 17,000 people between the ages of 15 and 64. The results showed that only 2.1% of people were unable to read or write kanji, proving the high literacy rate of the Japanese people.
After the test, Shibata was summoned by Perzel, who indirectly warned him that the results needed to show a low literacy rate. Shibata rebuffed, insisting that the results could not be compromised.
Kanji still ended up being simplified in the end anyways and the writing system was changed despite there being no reason to do so.
"Democratization" was simply a code word for "Destroying Individuality."
They really liked the "War Boom" in the US. They thought they could sustain it and export it to other nations. That fantasy lasted about 2 years.
If you look into the Ottoman Empire, its collapse, and the rise of Atatürk you will see a similar story involving latinized writing, women's rights, and of course close ties with the Zionist west against Germany.
I don't believe this.
General MacArthur, who oversaw occupation and reconstruction, is generally well regarded in Japan due to his mercy and helpfulness, when vengeance would have been very easy. In fact, vengeance was expected as that was how imperial japan rolled.
Also replacing the alphabet doesn't even seem practical without absolute conquest - like murdering all teachers and shit. And as popular as the "america bad" narrative is, we were never that far gone.
Also, Stalin is not really known as a champion of individual rights and cultural preservation. Notably, he did exactly what you are fucking trying to credit him with preventing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillisation_in_the_Soviet_Union
Stalin was a dick, yes. Which makes a story of him in the early days of the Cold War stumbling into doing the right thing simply to fuck with his new enemies believable. Of course he didn't care about the Japs, but he had an opportunity to make things harder on us and apparently took it.
You don't believe it but its true. Look it up. They (John Pelzel a member of GHQ) even complained when they found out the literecy rates was high and told the guy who was responsible for setting up the Japanese litereacy test that it needed to show that it was low
Believe it or not Stalin even talked Mao out of romanizing the Chinese language also. Not quite sure why but its true. Look it up .
SkullFace tirade was about all that?
Yeah, sounds like it was referencing this.
such a lust for usury! WHOOOO?!?!
I'm not particularly fond of the Soviets, but I'm glad they opposed that.
I know a bit of Japanese (only the basics you'd get in a classroom), do you happen to know how/in what way they simplified the characters? Was it like the simplified Chinese deal where they removed meaningful components to simpler but meaningless strokes?
...Am I being shadowbanned? With no account it says this post was deleted.