What can be understood from this graph? Is there any reason why the dark green countries read more than the light green? My theories so far:
>1) Dark green cultures have stronger or more extant mythology, folklore, or oral tradition.
>2) Dark green cultures are not as work-obsessed and less likely to have digital technology everywhere for education, socialising, leisure, or work
>3) Dark green are not tainted as much by Hollywood and American culture
Thoughts?
>What can be understood from this graph? Is there any reason why the dark green countries read more than the light green? My theories so far:
>>1) Dark green cultures have stronger or more extant mythology, folklore, or oral tradition.
>>2) Dark green cultures are not as work-obsessed and less likely to have digital technology everywhere for education, socialising, leisure, or work
>>3) Dark green are not tainted as much by Hollywood and American culture
>Thoughts?
In India and China they probably reading for any Entrance Exam for a better collage.
>better college
>where the population reads less
Welp.
>>2) Dark green cultures are not as work-obsessed and less likely to have digital technology everywhere for education, socialising, leisure, or work
I don't know about thailand/philippines but India and China have some of the most work-obsessed cultures in the world.
I assumed like that there are probably a lot of people studying for exams or reading for school. I also might assume that in some of the countries with higher rates of poverty, more people read for entertainment (instead of tv/internet entertainment). This chart probably does not count manga as reading otherwise Japan/Korea would be a lot higher.
>This chart probably does not count manga as reading
Nor does anyone else on the planet.
>In India and China they probably reading for any Entrance Exam for a better collage.
This
A lot of Indians want to get into the civil services which requires a lot of reading
in china your social credit score goes down if you say you read less than 8 hours a week
Exactly. Never trust any data from China. Especially self reported data, but especially state data.
This
I think data from most dark green countries (exluding Sweden) has been inflated.
Not necessarily, countries who read most just happen to have more challenging and difficult educational system, (although not necessarily the best or at least standardized). Students have to grind harder and read a lot. This is true for China, India, or Philippines based on acccounts of people I've worked with. Western education is more efficient and advanced.
China baaad
Remember that country iq study showing china had the highest iq? China lied about and messed with their iq data.
All 3 are false for most of the dark green places though
>1
Indians literally believe in mythology about pagan gods; Thais still have a lot of myth and folklore, especially about certain demons and monsters in regional areas; China still believes in ancestor worship and their "history" is always mythologised, even when they make Mao a sort of legendary hero; Philippines is nearly all folklore and myth, since you can look it all up on Aswang Project; Egypt and Saudi Arabia have more folk and myth stories than in the 1001 Nights; Slavic countries still have a great deal of fairy tales, stuff about flying rugs, and even make movies about Slavic religions as part of national epics/heroism; Sweden's language is literally from the time of Vikings and their sagas, Eddas, and poetry never died with Christianity; Venezuela probably still has a lot of native myth and folklore; South Africa not so much though.
>2
The least read countries on that chart are Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, and U.K., which are all obsessed with working as hard as possible to make their capital cities the "next hub of the globalised market". Korea, Japan, and Taiwan are basically fully digitised now and have declining brith rates; that's because people are all online weirdos hooked up to entertainment in their few hours off so they can be numb and go work 'til death.
>3
With the exception of Saudi Arabia and Venezuala, they all have their own massive film industries and don't just consume Hollywood movies like they do in the Anglosphere. Most of those countries famously hate American culture, especially the Arab ones, China, Russia, India, and (most of all) France.
All of that was wrong. Well done
oh god, shut the frick up and take your meds.
armchair ethnologist
Anthropology is fake
Good morning sirs. Today I will be reading while shitting in the street.
I don't believe the average person reads 7 hours a week in say a Sweden.
Unless you consider reading websites and twitter as reading
>I don't believe the average person reads 7 hours a week in say a Sweden. Unless you consider reading websites and twitter as reading
anon, it´s in minutes.
Then why does it say hours?
And how do you even read 6 minutes a week?
Would take you a year to finish a book
It says hours right there in the first few words, moron
Are indians that well read?
No
If only Indians spent this much time building toilets...
>My country is a light green one
It's over
Your data is wrong, it's the whitest countries that read the most
Can you translate those countries to english? I can only make out some of them
really dude?
Finland
Germany
Netherlands
Estonia
Norway
Sweden
European Average
Belgium
Great Britain
France
Slovenia
Context clues and a cursory knowledge of the names of other countries in their own language
>Duitsland -> Deutschland -> Germany
should've made this simple for you
this anon is correct. The % of readers per country is pretty much the same as the original graph.
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>Finland
>white
>Finland
>?
>Netherlands
>?
>Norway
>Sweden
>?
>Belgium
>Great Britain
>?
>Slovenia or Slovakia
In Europe?
China ppl read like crazy. Mil & fil both reading those online novels about rebellious ceos and period dramas. Wife reads non stop. Colleagues reading in-between shifts and on subways. Only see the IT Dept playing vidyas (LoL). Chinese people read.
>I CAN'T REED
I spend at least 24 hours per week reading IQfy posts