Because lots of Americans are fucking stupid and the government wants to keep them that way. So they will be mindless peasants easy to control.
Meanwhile China has been actively trying to educate the populace for decades. To raise them up from being the mindless peasants the western imperialists spend even longer trying to force them to be.
Then why is literacy higher in China than it is in the US?
Because lots of Americans are fucking stupid and the government wants to keep them that way. So they will be mindless peasants easy to control.
Meanwhile China has been actively trying to educate the populace for decades. To raise them up from being the mindless peasants the western imperialists spend even longer trying to force them to be.
It was a rhetorical question.