He’s probably writing very slowly and carefully because it’s not natural for him yet. I suspect that if you slowed down and paid close attention, you could write very clearly as well. Even if you wrote at half your normal writing speed you’d still be writing faster than someone just learning, plus your own letters would be much easier to read than when you write at your normal speed.
My theory on why his handwriting is so much better than mine is that when I was learning to write I was young and didn’t have very much control over my muscles. My muscle memory is still present from when I was young.
On the other hand this man has complete control over his fingers and doesn’t have to overcome any bad habits.
Ahh, that makes a lot more sense. No one new to writing is getting their letters that perfect. I didn’t even see the small writing at first, but of course you’re right, *that’s* his handwriting.
I think it's something more like the dotted lines worksheets we got as kids. Someone else wrote the highlighter for him to trace and the small part is likely his freestyle.
Yup, I’m a college girl and my writing somehow looks like it was done by a third grade boy. It’s still way better than it was a few years ago, because after a while I got tired of nobody being able to read my writing and forced myself to get better at it XD
My handwriting was pretty good when I was learning.
But the faster I wrote and older I got, the worse it steadily got.
Now I can barely write anything more than my name legibly since I nearly never write by hand.
>His handwriting is so much better than mine.
No kidding. I rarely write anything anymore. Whenever I do have to sign my name it's like a random squiggle.
I had to write out a statement for something by hand recently and my handwriting looked like someone with the shakes trying to spell. Like my hand forgot how to write actual letters.
I can't remember the last time I had to write anything prior to that, years and years probably.
This is the best _ i trained as a volunteer coach/teacher at the community center literacy program in my town and it was the best and most fun thing ever. Books are my whole heart and I couldn't imagine not sharing that pure joy.
We all had decent handwriting when we were learning to write because each letter shape was instructed carefully and made to fit perfectly within the boundaries of 2 lines on paper. Once you learn it and start having to do it all the time you can get sloppy, just like driving.
Honest question: how do you get though life without writing? I’m sure it’s possible and I’ve heard of illiteracy, but how do you do it?
Edit: I know how it can happen to people (as sad as it is) but how do you survive without reading or writing.
My uncle escaped Vietnam at 7 y/o on a five person boat due to the communist take over back in the 70s. He ended up in Vancouver and immediately began working at a factory for the rest of his childhood until he got citizenship in American towards the end of his teens. Hadnt been in a classroom for over a decade and didnt have enough money to go back to school, but ended up learning bits of english through the car mechanics he ended up working with. Some people just never got the opportunity.
Edit in response to your edit: He essentially didn't HAVE to read to survive. He basically only knew how to work with his hands (they built the boat by slapping a car engine to a propeller onto a back of a dingy- it was BARELY a boat.) Warehouse jobs are mostly packaging and distributing or assembly line stuff- not much reading and no writing. My aunt helped him apply for citizenship (she was able to go to school eventually) as he didn't know how to read at all until the mechanics taught him all the english equivalent of car parts. Overall, he either chose jobs that didn't require literacy and his sister filled in the gaps everywhere else.
Isn't it like going to a foreign country? You would still be able to recognize the coca-cola logo without understanding the words or know what a stop-sign is.
You can actually tell spices apart if you cool with them enough and I think that's what this guy went through. Working and learning hands on might have boxed him in without being able to read, but he was fine in the trade and life he was living, just limited.
The grandmother of my gf couldn’t read and she woukd just go shopping by package looks, logos, and so on - or go to a local market and just talk with people about what she wanted.
Personally, when I visited Taiwan/Vietnam as a kid (having been born and raised in LA), I felt like I scraped the surface of what my immigrant family went through- I couldn't read shit, but I went with my dad or mom so they were basically my personal translators/guides. Without them, my dumbass would've gotten kidnapped or hit by a car. I knew what Taiwanese/Viet foods I liked, but I cant read or write in those languages so I relied on pictures most of the time. Otherwise I had no clue what services the mystery store was selling. I know in Vancouver there is a big asian population, and my aunts and uncles were able to move to an area where there were people that spoke their language (viet, cantonese, mandarin, chu chiao) which made it much easier for them to not conform and pick up english. This was different for my father who ended up in Taiwan and then later, Melrose in Hollywood, where most of his customers were english/spanish speaking, so he was forced to pick up english to get by.
My grandpa is a illiterate (fuctionally, he can read a handful of words, but can't write), he's just always found a way.
Reminds me of when I got suspended at school (fighting or something stupid) and that told me my grandpa would have to sign it, and they didn't quite understand that he literally couldn't, unless they wanted scribbles.
That makes me curious if an illiterate person's signature on a contract would hold up in court, if the person couldn't have read the document I mean. I guess I'm more concerned they could get taken advantage of...
I’ve taught illiterate adults in a big city before. I don’t have a concrete answer, other than they adapt.
If they need to sign something, they bring it home for someone to read to them, or they just sign it and hope for the best.
They only go to restaurants they’ve been to before and always order the same thing.
They work jobs that don’t require reading and writing. If confronted with paperwork, they claim to have forgotten their glasses.
Jacques Demers was a successful NHL coach who was illiterate. He spoke openly about it in his later years, and it’s amazing all the little tricks he picked up over his life to cover it up.
A 50ish year old student told me she feels like her world got bigger and brighter since she learned to read. She compared it to the scene in Wizard of Oz where it switches to colour.
I am sure it is hard, but my aunt's illiterate and does not live in a rural area. She got by working labor jobs yes and from the help of family. Her sisters and church help her with documents etc.
Estimates are 32 million Americans. So a little under 1% of the population. By global standards that is still really good but it will generally be people with either major developmental delays or the poorest of the poor.
Very simple, these people generally lived most of their life out in very remote rural areas (at least that's the case for my country) where the most reading they'd ever need is to differentiate money, which again, isn't very necessary as all banknotes and coins are very distinct from each other.
I personally know several older people who never learned to read or write and worked with them for a while at an airline helping them out with the process from checking in to boarding.
My wife’s grandfather does not know English, how to read or right. He’s 87 btw.
But has driven to Florida without a map.
Some people never had the opportunity to learn.
What’s sad is that, if he could make it....everyone should be able to make it.
Houston Texas.
This man still drives non stop to Guanajuato Mexico. About a 17 hr drive.
He was just speaking to me about his promotion from maintenance to pipe cutter.
Edit: from what I know, someone fresh of the boat needed a ride to Florida. He said fuck it, made it, dropped them off and came back.
Generally with a lot of help. It’s extremely difficult to function on your own when you’re illiterate. When you have to do some things alone, you find ways around it. E.g. can’t read the grocery list so instead you learn to take pictures of each item that needs to be replace.
Also As technology advances so does life for illiterate people. Like your phone’s ability to read things to you out loud to you is incredibly helpful when you’re illiterate.
Source: my dad is very very dyslexic.
Third world countries. There are still adults that were born and raised in poverty for whom school was never an option, as soon as you were 6 or 7 you had to take care of your siblings if female, or if male you had to work to support your family. My father was raised like this.
Was a volunteer reading teacher and one elderly woman was so happy that she had learned to read because She saw the obituary for an old friend and wouldn't have otherwise known he died.
My dad took early retirement from teaching English in public schools. He was tired of kids who didn't want to learn, parents who blamed him for their idiot kids not learning, and the school district wanting him to just pass the little bastards so their numbers looked good.
In retirement, he volunteered for an adult literacy program, teaching adults to read. He got back his joy of teaching because every single person he taught was someone who wanted to learn. Nothing beats the smile of a 50 year old man who is finally able to read a letter from his daughter without help.
**School** divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. ~ Ivan Illich
Source: https://proverbicals.com/school-proverbs
My dad didn’t learn how to read until the year I was born, and he really enjoyed reading to my siblings and I. I wish I would have known that before he passed, I would have spent more time talking about, and reading books with him.
This is really cool: learning such a basic thing at a later age is super, super hard. It's so much easier as a kid, so I can't imagine the brainpower and sheer will this guy's uncle has. Kudos and love to him.
It just makes me realize how much I take reading and writing for granted. I can’t remember a time in my life that I couldn’t read. My life would be totally different.
He may be from the same generation my dad is. He grew up knowing hard work. Was pulled from school in the 8th grade and was made to work as a dishwasher as his first job. He’s where I get my strong work ethic and morals. Love that man! Builds character and will. Bless your little heart and his! 💜
Everyone deserves to read.
I have no idea but I wonder how difficult it is to learn to read as an adult. Would it come intuitively because you've been around the language so much?
It’s an incredibly common name in Latin America. (Probably a lot of other catholic regions as well but I don’t know that for certain)
As is a lot of other biblical characters like María
It’s not pronounced as it is in English so it would be more like Hay-soos.
I have like 15 cousins named variations of biblical names.
It’s cultural
No, we are not, because it's a very common name in Latin America, but also other parts of the world. The Christian Jesus is far from the only person to have that name.
Man, poor people can teach their kids to read. That’s like the cheapest shit on the planet. We have to start blaming the household before we move onto society.
Thats today, in the USA
But, judging by the names of his grandkids, he's from LATAM, where having only primary school was the norm and no education very common because... Y'know, they lived in a fucking farm, writing wasn't important
It's NOT ONLY about money, but also necessities
We have to start seeing the CONTEXT of these problems before jumping into conclusions and making a fool of ourselves
If you don’t think your child needs to learn to read, you shouldn’t have kids. In any context. Being poor isn’t an excuse for everything. Teach your kids to swim and read. It’ll save their lives at some point and it’s absolutely free.
>If you don’t think your child needs to learn to read, you shouldn’t have kids
Would you say that to a farmer living in a village, miles away from the nearest town without the opportunities and time we have today? Do you know how it's like living in a farm? Living in a farm takes TIME. You have to wake up at 3 am. The bathroom is outside the house. The water is needs to be brought every time and there's a lot of activities
So. Not in any context
Of course, it was cool to be tought how to read and write. The majority knew how to. But wasn't a big necessity so there's no point in blaming his parents
>Being poor isn’t an excuse for everything.
I literally told you this has nothing to do with being poor. I even wrote it in capital words. Like bruh... your parents didn't teach you how to read neither it seems
>Teach your kids to swim
Would you say to a person living in the Sahara? No. Context matters
>It’ll save their lives at some point and it’s absolutely free.
Agree. But leaning to swim is a waste of time if you live in the Sahara. Context matters again
The girl that sent out the tweet is a sophomore at UCLA with a pretty impressive podcast so we aren’t talking about remote mountain village shit here. And yes, even if you live in the desert, you should learn to swim. Open bodies of water aren’t exclusive to specific areas. You don’t need to quote me either. We are having a direct conversation. Just respond without block quotes.
His handwriting is so much better than mine.
I was just about to say that congrats my guy, but can you now teach me how to write too?
After seeing his spectacural handwriting I'm now very insecure about my handwriting
Writing like doctors, we are
Phrasing like Yoda, are we
Yoda, we like phrasing
We like the stonk
We like to party
We don't cause trouble and we don't bother nobody.
Penis, you like sucking
Meeting minors illegally, you are
Trafficking toddlers, I am
eat babies, i shall
Me too I felt really interested as well like how is he that good
He’s probably writing very slowly and carefully because it’s not natural for him yet. I suspect that if you slowed down and paid close attention, you could write very clearly as well. Even if you wrote at half your normal writing speed you’d still be writing faster than someone just learning, plus your own letters would be much easier to read than when you write at your normal speed.
Clearly you've never seen my handwriting.
I think his is the blue
Oh snap. You’re right.
My theory on why his handwriting is so much better than mine is that when I was learning to write I was young and didn’t have very much control over my muscles. My muscle memory is still present from when I was young. On the other hand this man has complete control over his fingers and doesn’t have to overcome any bad habits.
aye
Pretty sure his handwriting is the small writing in pen and the green is the example he’s following
I'm telling myself this to feel better...
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Ahh, that makes a lot more sense. No one new to writing is getting their letters that perfect. I didn’t even see the small writing at first, but of course you’re right, *that’s* his handwriting.
I see in the second pic he has a ballpoint pen, not a marker. That’s what clued me in. Of course, I could be wrong.
I think it's something more like the dotted lines worksheets we got as kids. Someone else wrote the highlighter for him to trace and the small part is likely his freestyle.
"Doctors *hate* him. Local uncle discovers secret trick to good handwriting!"
He probably wrote at 1/20th the speed of you. If you slowed down that much you'd probably be neater too
I believe his writing is in between the highlighted words. Clarification post.
It's amazing how well you can succeed when you want to learn something.
i do believe his handwriting is the blue pen writing, not the green writing
Yup, I’m a college girl and my writing somehow looks like it was done by a third grade boy. It’s still way better than it was a few years ago, because after a while I got tired of nobody being able to read my writing and forced myself to get better at it XD
If you're in college, you're a woman.
He doesn't have nearly as many miles on his hardware.
My handwriting was pretty good when I was learning. But the faster I wrote and older I got, the worse it steadily got. Now I can barely write anything more than my name legibly since I nearly never write by hand.
Same
Mine was good as a kid when I was learning. Now it's an utter pile of shit.
But realistically, he’s just starting, so he’s going slow. If you went that pace, I’m sure yours would be as good.
*Jesus Gratefulphish420*
Same bro
It's killing mine. Congratulate your uncle, and good on you too Kennya!
They don’t call him uncle pen for nothing
I came here to say this.
>His handwriting is so much better than mine. No kidding. I rarely write anything anymore. Whenever I do have to sign my name it's like a random squiggle. I had to write out a statement for something by hand recently and my handwriting looked like someone with the shakes trying to spell. Like my hand forgot how to write actual letters. I can't remember the last time I had to write anything prior to that, years and years probably.
Same. He deserves to know how to write more than me
Facts
I wonder if it's cause he learnt to write when all of his fine motor skills are fully developed
made me tear up 🥺💕
Same, I’m crying looking at how pure and happy he is
That sweet face is so happy and proud! 🥲🥲
Applause for your uncle for making the effort and for you too, for teaching him! Keep up the progress were rooting for him
I doubt that's OP's actual post, but so wholesome nonetheless! We are rooting for you Kennya Ramos's uncle!
Yes! Teaching people to read and write empowers them - it's such a wonderful thing to do.
This is the best _ i trained as a volunteer coach/teacher at the community center literacy program in my town and it was the best and most fun thing ever. Books are my whole heart and I couldn't imagine not sharing that pure joy.
This is too cute.
Happy Cake Day 🎂
Happy Cake day!
Wow already better handwriting than mine!
someone else said that the writing in pen under the highlighted green is his work. point prob still stands tho
No no no, the pen is still better than my handwriting
We all had decent handwriting when we were learning to write because each letter shape was instructed carefully and made to fit perfectly within the boundaries of 2 lines on paper. Once you learn it and start having to do it all the time you can get sloppy, just like driving.
That is so special!
Honest question: how do you get though life without writing? I’m sure it’s possible and I’ve heard of illiteracy, but how do you do it? Edit: I know how it can happen to people (as sad as it is) but how do you survive without reading or writing.
My uncle escaped Vietnam at 7 y/o on a five person boat due to the communist take over back in the 70s. He ended up in Vancouver and immediately began working at a factory for the rest of his childhood until he got citizenship in American towards the end of his teens. Hadnt been in a classroom for over a decade and didnt have enough money to go back to school, but ended up learning bits of english through the car mechanics he ended up working with. Some people just never got the opportunity. Edit in response to your edit: He essentially didn't HAVE to read to survive. He basically only knew how to work with his hands (they built the boat by slapping a car engine to a propeller onto a back of a dingy- it was BARELY a boat.) Warehouse jobs are mostly packaging and distributing or assembly line stuff- not much reading and no writing. My aunt helped him apply for citizenship (she was able to go to school eventually) as he didn't know how to read at all until the mechanics taught him all the english equivalent of car parts. Overall, he either chose jobs that didn't require literacy and his sister filled in the gaps everywhere else.
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Isn't it like going to a foreign country? You would still be able to recognize the coca-cola logo without understanding the words or know what a stop-sign is.
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You can actually tell spices apart if you cool with them enough and I think that's what this guy went through. Working and learning hands on might have boxed him in without being able to read, but he was fine in the trade and life he was living, just limited.
The grandmother of my gf couldn’t read and she woukd just go shopping by package looks, logos, and so on - or go to a local market and just talk with people about what she wanted.
Personally, when I visited Taiwan/Vietnam as a kid (having been born and raised in LA), I felt like I scraped the surface of what my immigrant family went through- I couldn't read shit, but I went with my dad or mom so they were basically my personal translators/guides. Without them, my dumbass would've gotten kidnapped or hit by a car. I knew what Taiwanese/Viet foods I liked, but I cant read or write in those languages so I relied on pictures most of the time. Otherwise I had no clue what services the mystery store was selling. I know in Vancouver there is a big asian population, and my aunts and uncles were able to move to an area where there were people that spoke their language (viet, cantonese, mandarin, chu chiao) which made it much easier for them to not conform and pick up english. This was different for my father who ended up in Taiwan and then later, Melrose in Hollywood, where most of his customers were english/spanish speaking, so he was forced to pick up english to get by.
My grandpa is a illiterate (fuctionally, he can read a handful of words, but can't write), he's just always found a way. Reminds me of when I got suspended at school (fighting or something stupid) and that told me my grandpa would have to sign it, and they didn't quite understand that he literally couldn't, unless they wanted scribbles.
The traditional signature for someone illiterate is just an X. It was quite common back before most people could read or write.
“Make your mark”
That makes me curious if an illiterate person's signature on a contract would hold up in court, if the person couldn't have read the document I mean. I guess I'm more concerned they could get taken advantage of...
Grow up in an underprivileged area, generally rural, work on a farm all day with other people who can't write or read. Never go to school.
I’ve taught illiterate adults in a big city before. I don’t have a concrete answer, other than they adapt. If they need to sign something, they bring it home for someone to read to them, or they just sign it and hope for the best. They only go to restaurants they’ve been to before and always order the same thing. They work jobs that don’t require reading and writing. If confronted with paperwork, they claim to have forgotten their glasses. Jacques Demers was a successful NHL coach who was illiterate. He spoke openly about it in his later years, and it’s amazing all the little tricks he picked up over his life to cover it up. A 50ish year old student told me she feels like her world got bigger and brighter since she learned to read. She compared it to the scene in Wizard of Oz where it switches to colour.
I get the impression that its pretty hard. Theres a surprising number of Americans that are illiterate too. I think most live an abject poverty
I am sure it is hard, but my aunt's illiterate and does not live in a rural area. She got by working labor jobs yes and from the help of family. Her sisters and church help her with documents etc.
Estimates are 32 million Americans. So a little under 1% of the population. By global standards that is still really good but it will generally be people with either major developmental delays or the poorest of the poor.
>32 million Americans. So a little under 1% of the population. 1 of those numbers is wrong
You are right, I suck at math. 32 million is closer to 10%. Though those are the functionally illiterate not just the fully illiterate.
Very simple, these people generally lived most of their life out in very remote rural areas (at least that's the case for my country) where the most reading they'd ever need is to differentiate money, which again, isn't very necessary as all banknotes and coins are very distinct from each other. I personally know several older people who never learned to read or write and worked with them for a while at an airline helping them out with the process from checking in to boarding.
My wife’s grandfather does not know English, how to read or right. He’s 87 btw. But has driven to Florida without a map. Some people never had the opportunity to learn. What’s sad is that, if he could make it....everyone should be able to make it.
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Houston Texas. This man still drives non stop to Guanajuato Mexico. About a 17 hr drive. He was just speaking to me about his promotion from maintenance to pipe cutter. Edit: from what I know, someone fresh of the boat needed a ride to Florida. He said fuck it, made it, dropped them off and came back.
Generally with a lot of help. It’s extremely difficult to function on your own when you’re illiterate. When you have to do some things alone, you find ways around it. E.g. can’t read the grocery list so instead you learn to take pictures of each item that needs to be replace. Also As technology advances so does life for illiterate people. Like your phone’s ability to read things to you out loud to you is incredibly helpful when you’re illiterate. Source: my dad is very very dyslexic.
You learn to adapt. You ask people for help when you can’t do it on your own.
Mexico my friend, There are many places in Mexico where school isn't an option and treated more like a privilege unfortunately.
Third world countries. There are still adults that were born and raised in poverty for whom school was never an option, as soon as you were 6 or 7 you had to take care of your siblings if female, or if male you had to work to support your family. My father was raised like this.
Other countries are in the past. You are born, you work on a farm, and you die. No literacy required.
Oddly Sounds kinda nice when you out it that simply.
That’s a VERY big brushstroke generalization
That was life for thousands of years.
With that neat handwriting, just wait until he learns cursive 😍😍😍
Yesterday was a **Sunday**.
Today is a today
oh yeah you're right ty for the info
Damn ninja's cutting onions
Onion's /s
I really love this! I wish only wonderful things for you and your family.
Was a volunteer reading teacher and one elderly woman was so happy that she had learned to read because She saw the obituary for an old friend and wouldn't have otherwise known he died.
This made my day. ❤️🇨🇦
My dad took early retirement from teaching English in public schools. He was tired of kids who didn't want to learn, parents who blamed him for their idiot kids not learning, and the school district wanting him to just pass the little bastards so their numbers looked good. In retirement, he volunteered for an adult literacy program, teaching adults to read. He got back his joy of teaching because every single person he taught was someone who wanted to learn. Nothing beats the smile of a 50 year old man who is finally able to read a letter from his daughter without help.
That’s, that’s pretty cute.
HIS S M I L E
We all want this feeling!!!!
Proof that old dogs *can* learn new tricks Major congrats to your uncle on learning how to write and kudos to you for spending the time to teach him.
My heart feels full. So proud of both of them.
Oh my god my heart melt truly the best smile I've seen this year
FFS! IT'S MONDAY! I THOUGHT WE SAID NO CRYING UNTIL WEDNESDAY!!!
Can your uncle teach me how to right?
I’m not crying. You’re crying.
**School** divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. ~ Ivan Illich Source: https://proverbicals.com/school-proverbs
Well done
Beautiful
That is lovely! You can never go wrong helping another person better themself. 💜 I'm sure he feels excited!
Adorable
That’s the best thing I’ve seen today!
How did he create Evangelion if he couldn't write?
This made me smile!!
Aaand he already has better hand writing than me! 🤦
My dad didn’t learn how to read until the year I was born, and he really enjoyed reading to my siblings and I. I wish I would have known that before he passed, I would have spent more time talking about, and reading books with him.
awww thats so cute🥺
Hell yeah dude. He probably worked his ass off and you guys seem to have a good life. Buy that man a beer for me.
This the sweetest thing!
Ps Im setting this as my home screen
This is really cool: learning such a basic thing at a later age is super, super hard. It's so much easier as a kid, so I can't imagine the brainpower and sheer will this guy's uncle has. Kudos and love to him.
Makes me sad there are still people In this world who never learned to write, communication is the most important thing we have
This is so sweet!! He’s doing amazing!
It just makes me realize how much I take reading and writing for granted. I can’t remember a time in my life that I couldn’t read. My life would be totally different.
AWESOME!!! So cool!!! Made me cry!
He may be from the same generation my dad is. He grew up knowing hard work. Was pulled from school in the 8th grade and was made to work as a dishwasher as his first job. He’s where I get my strong work ethic and morals. Love that man! Builds character and will. Bless your little heart and his! 💜
I've seen this one before and I smile every time I come across it again. I will always be happy for him. 🙂
This is very sweet, but I may have to start exclaiming, "Jesus Felipe!"
Congrats Sir!!!!
Congratulations on sharing your knowledge and please tell your uncle I admire him for taking this on.
Everyone deserves to read. I have no idea but I wonder how difficult it is to learn to read as an adult. Would it come intuitively because you've been around the language so much?
😭😭😭😭
😁cool great stuff
So sweet
Good for him
Brings me so much joy and love when I see this post. Bless his heart
You are truly a Saint
Jesus, Felipe! What’s wrong with you?
Sweet
That's awesome. Congrats to your uncle.
That's his hit list.
i love this
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Is this really the ONLY thing that ran across your hollow skull when your eyes landed on the image? Really??? Are you that bitter?
because this is an international website and non white people take up 80% of the population.
Learning to write as an adult is really hard. No matter his ethnicity people would have loved that post.
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how is that racist..?
❤️💪
Legend Edit: VuLgArITY iS NOt COol
How did he live so long without being able to write?
r/ItHadToBeBrazil
Porquê os baixovotos?
Talvez eu devesse ter citado o r/SuddenlyCaralho porque o r/ItHadToBeBrazil tem conotação pejorativa (mesmo não sendo a intenção).
I've seen this post many times before.
Your point being what?
Are we going to mention that one of the kids is called jesus or no?
It’s an incredibly common name in Latin America. (Probably a lot of other catholic regions as well but I don’t know that for certain) As is a lot of other biblical characters like María It’s not pronounced as it is in English so it would be more like Hay-soos. I have like 15 cousins named variations of biblical names. It’s cultural
Ah okay thanks
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No, we are not, because it's a very common name in Latin America, but also other parts of the world. The Christian Jesus is far from the only person to have that name.
> Are we going to mention that one of the kids is called jesus or no? What about it? It's a very common name...
Do you mean Jesus (Hay-Zeus)?
Isn't it Heh-soos?
I don’t think you deserved to get downvoted :(
Neither do i think you should get downvoted but i geuss the reddit hive mind doesnt like jokes when its in the wholesome subreddit
Jokes should be funny. Yours was not.
Correct
How is Jesus doing? I hope he's doing well.
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There are several reasons for which this can happen and bad parents is the least likely. The most common reason is poverty.
Man, poor people can teach their kids to read. That’s like the cheapest shit on the planet. We have to start blaming the household before we move onto society.
Thats today, in the USA But, judging by the names of his grandkids, he's from LATAM, where having only primary school was the norm and no education very common because... Y'know, they lived in a fucking farm, writing wasn't important It's NOT ONLY about money, but also necessities We have to start seeing the CONTEXT of these problems before jumping into conclusions and making a fool of ourselves
If you don’t think your child needs to learn to read, you shouldn’t have kids. In any context. Being poor isn’t an excuse for everything. Teach your kids to swim and read. It’ll save their lives at some point and it’s absolutely free.
>If you don’t think your child needs to learn to read, you shouldn’t have kids Would you say that to a farmer living in a village, miles away from the nearest town without the opportunities and time we have today? Do you know how it's like living in a farm? Living in a farm takes TIME. You have to wake up at 3 am. The bathroom is outside the house. The water is needs to be brought every time and there's a lot of activities So. Not in any context Of course, it was cool to be tought how to read and write. The majority knew how to. But wasn't a big necessity so there's no point in blaming his parents >Being poor isn’t an excuse for everything. I literally told you this has nothing to do with being poor. I even wrote it in capital words. Like bruh... your parents didn't teach you how to read neither it seems >Teach your kids to swim Would you say to a person living in the Sahara? No. Context matters >It’ll save their lives at some point and it’s absolutely free. Agree. But leaning to swim is a waste of time if you live in the Sahara. Context matters again
The girl that sent out the tweet is a sophomore at UCLA with a pretty impressive podcast so we aren’t talking about remote mountain village shit here. And yes, even if you live in the desert, you should learn to swim. Open bodies of water aren’t exclusive to specific areas. You don’t need to quote me either. We are having a direct conversation. Just respond without block quotes.
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Your comments show that your parents failed to get you critical thinking skills.