• Chev@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    How is that possible? People use the internet every day where you need to read constantly. Do those people live without any internet?

    • sharkteethsandwich@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      If you look at the data, it tells you about 1/3 of those who are illiterate comes from foreigners so that is not surprising. But the largest demographic of illiterates in the US is white people lol

      Also they are functionally illiterate. It’s a wide encompassing term that ranges from people who can’t read English because they just moved here to people who can only read basic words like stop and go or words they encounter often in life but not much more than that.

      I would imagine many people who are functionally illiterate just go to work, watch tv, and sleep.