Japanese voting patterns by age group
(media.scored.co)
what do "conservatives" in japan even conserve?
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This key is shit. How fucking hard would it have been to replace the Japanese text with English text? Or at the very least, if you were gonna just slap a translation key on top, reference the colors instead of the Japanese characters. I've never learned to distinguish any Japanese characters, so this key is just a game of match the squiggly symbols for me.
And hilariously enough, it's not much better for young native Japanese speakers either, since one thing I do know about Japanese is that the complex symbolic characters borrowed from Chinese (as opposed to the simpler phonetic characters) are becoming increasingly obscure and few students are getting a solid grasp of them. So the fact that many of these political parties' names are written entirely in these characters means native Japanese don't "read" them phonetically, they just recognize the symbols, which many young Japanese might not be able to do.
And hilariously enough, it's not much better for young native Japanese speakers either, since one thing I do know about Japanese is that the complex symbolic characters borrowed from Chinese (as opposed to the simpler phonetic characters) are becoming increasingly obscure and few students are getting a solid grasp of them. So the fact that many of these political parties' names are written entirely in these characters means native Japanese don't "read" them phonetically, they just recognize the symbols, which many young Japanese might not be able to do.
the key is numbered. So the red one is number 1 on the list and the pink one number 2 on the list and the blue one is number 3 on the list etc.
>Chinese (as opposed to the simpler phonetic characters) are becoming increasingly obscure and few students are getting a solid grasp of them... native Japanese don't "read" them phonetically, they just recognize the symbols, which many young Japanese might not be able to do.
Young as in 5 years old? Because toddler books are literally the *only* place where Japanese is written phonetically instead of with kanji.
If someone with basic education in Japan couldn't read kanji, they would be considered every bit as illiterate as someone in the US who couldn't read the alphabet.
The misconception that they're losing kanji knowledge comes from the fact that they're getting worse at *handwriting* particularly obscure words because of the prevalence of typing, but that's true for everywhere. If someone came up to you on the street and asked you to spell "onomatopoeia" correctly, could you? Probably not, but that doesn't mean you can't read your own language.
Young as in 5 years old? Because toddler books are literally the *only* place where Japanese is written phonetically instead of with kanji.
If someone with basic education in Japan couldn't read kanji, they would be considered every bit as illiterate as someone in the US who couldn't read the alphabet.
The misconception that they're losing kanji knowledge comes from the fact that they're getting worse at *handwriting* particularly obscure words because of the prevalence of typing, but that's true for everywhere. If someone came up to you on the street and asked you to spell "onomatopoeia" correctly, could you? Probably not, but that doesn't mean you can't read your own language.
Toast message
1. There’s no fucking key
2. It translates *anything* as “Q-anon right” and expects me to believe the translator isn’t a communist