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[A dog is walked by an old lady wrapped in a blanket siting in a wheelchair] Old Lady: A doggo! [Close up of the old lady’s happy, yet not all there expression] Old Lady: A heccin good pupper. [A Nurse rushes to the Old Lady’s chair. The dog stairs at the Old Lady, the owner off screen] Old Lady: 13/10 good boi. Dog Owner: huh? [The nurse wheels the Old Lady away] Nurse: Don’t worry no one understands her- Old Lady: Could be a fren.

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    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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      15 hours ago

      Most global historic statistics have fairly accurate information for first world countries but seldom have any for developing, third world countries or rural populations.

      I’m Canadian, Indigenous Canadian and my parents were born in the wilderness in the 1940s when starvation was still a thing when they were children. They got an education but one that centered around beating the ever loving shit out of you for being brown than in teaching them how to read or write. Even though they lived in a first world country, their generation in Indigenous Canada was more or less illiterate. And that was the style at the time … you counted only the people that were worth counting and you didn’t count those you didn’t care about (which was usually 90% of the rest of the world).

      So in the 1950s, when the US, UK and French average literacy rate was about 70% to 80%, they only represented less than 10% of the global population … most of the world was unrecorded, badly recorded or just ignored, the global average at the time was about 20% (or probably less)