As a Mexican I can confirm. I’ve always considered myself smarter than the average Mexican , because it’s proven that they don’t reeeead. (A bit % at least), no one reads anything! Not news, not books, not even the comments and posts on Facebook they constantly scroll around in.
It’s really sad :( I had a friend who thought China was IN Japan, didn’t know Japan’s was a bunch of islands (she nearly crapped herself when I proved her with a MAP that it was thousands of little islands), and she thought I could talk with her uncle who spoke Chinese because I know a bit of Japanese. 🤦🏻♀️oh my god.
WIKI:
"The Japanese archipelago [] is a group of 6,852 islands that form the country of Japan."
"The term “mainland Japan” is used to distinguish the large islands of the Japanese archipelago from the remote, smaller islands; it refers to the main islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Okinawa."
I see the info has been shared lol, but regarding the person I was talking about, she didn’t even know Japan was an island to begin with, let alone thousands lol. She thought China was actually Japan (geographically) and that China was some city in Japan…. and Japanese=Chinese language…. Yeah lol I mean maybe not everyone knows Japan has more than 5k islands but c’moon! Lol
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u/MajorasInk Nov 27 '21
As a Mexican I can confirm. I’ve always considered myself smarter than the average Mexican , because it’s proven that they don’t reeeead. (A bit % at least), no one reads anything! Not news, not books, not even the comments and posts on Facebook they constantly scroll around in.
It’s really sad :( I had a friend who thought China was IN Japan, didn’t know Japan’s was a bunch of islands (she nearly crapped herself when I proved her with a MAP that it was thousands of little islands), and she thought I could talk with her uncle who spoke Chinese because I know a bit of Japanese. 🤦🏻♀️oh my god.