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2016-07-13 09:46:11 Post No. 8273316
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2016-07-13 09:46:11
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Today while sitting in the library I asked a Chinese girl across from me how long it took her to read one of the manga books she was reading. I was sitting there reading a PKD novel I had already read while waiting for my Dad to finish browsing, and this girl had been reading them one after the other, going back and forth between her chair and the manga section, and I had only been there for twenty-odd minutes. She was too absorbed in her Chinese comic book to even notice my question. I walked away, feeling a little flabbergasted. Being immersed in a book I understand, but why do Chinese (and other Asian children) read nothing but picture-based junk? There's no literary substance to what they read, and their children (also their young adults) are encouraged to read trash. Why is this? Also, why does it seem like children's literature is dumbed down nowadays? It's all image-based. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Captain Underpants, the list goes on. Is it not a truth that children (especially Chinese and other Asian children, particularly in N. America) are becoming progressively dumber? What does /lit/ think?
