dwazou@lemm.ee to Buy Canadian@lemmy.ca · edit-22 days agoUS to ban Canadians from entering border friendship librarywww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up19·2 days agoSee this seems like a nationalist thing but it’s also a systemic illiteracy thing
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 days agoMaking a wild guess here, Canada has higher literacy than USA. Checking my “wild guess”: UNESCO Institute for Statistics 2025 Canada 99% USA 86% I’m also pretty danged sure we, US citizens, maybe not our government, need more friends. Edit: And for a long time have needed better education. sigh.
minus-squareLemmyoutofhere@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-21 day agoCanada has the highest percentage of university educated people in the world. https://www.statista.com/statistics/232951/university-degree-attainment-by-country/ 63% of Canadians have post secondary education. 54% of Americans can’t read at a grade 6 level. https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now
See this seems like a nationalist thing but it’s also a systemic illiteracy thing
Making a wild guess here, Canada has higher literacy than USA. Checking my “wild guess”:
UNESCO Institute for Statistics 2025 Canada 99% USA 86%
I’m also pretty danged sure we, US citizens, maybe not our government, need more friends.
Edit: And for a long time have needed better education. sigh.
Canada has the highest percentage of university educated people in the world.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/232951/university-degree-attainment-by-country/
63% of Canadians have post secondary education. 54% of Americans can’t read at a grade 6 level.
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now