Originally Posted by spyder

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China is in alot of trouble once 51% of their people become literate and ask for the freedoms and democracy that their neighbor India enjoys.
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Hmm! Yup! "India - the world's largest democracy".
However, I bet democracy is a moot point and an unfathomable concept if you're one of the hundreds of millions of Indians whose bed (and toilet!) for the night is a cow-dung infested street (.... or a village shack). Especially when you haven't eaten a hot meal for a week and haven't been able to wash for months!

And by the way .. from the CIA Factbook .... China'a literacy rate is:
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 90.9%
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/ch.html