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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (45476)2/2/2004 2:10:33 PM
From: Seeker of Truth  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Hello Ms. Cluney,
To be sure it is more difficult to learn characters than to learn letters. But it is far less difficult than you are aware IF YOU GROW UP IN A CHARACTER ENVIRONMENT. If you grow up in China, for example, the common characters and the common building blocks of characters become quite familiar before you even learn to which spoken word they correspond. Naturally this is not the case in the countryside but the cities are growing and that's where the characters are everywhere. Practice makes perfect and one gradully acquires skill. The Chinese government has simplified many of the quite complicated characters, thereby making the task of learning to read and write them much easier. Remember also that the characters unite the vast country. There is a benefit to that. Imagine a market of more than one billion people! Not even the Eurozone can boast that.
Also there is a defensive benefit. Nobody sane will attempt to attack such a huge country. In due course, say 150-200 years when Chinese is pronounced the same way,in the dialect that I know of course :o), in every part of the country, sone kind of alphabet or syllabary will be created. But China will be prosperous long before that.
There already exists a country which has become highly industrialized while still using Chinese characters. That's Japan of course. A counterexample to your "straddled with a primitive language" idea.
Watch China.
Sincerely,
Malcolm
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