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Originally Posted by Ea
With regards to illiteracy, one thing that comes to my mind, is how to compare statistics with earlier times? For one thing we are now much more aware of functional illiteracy (which was, as far as I know, not taken into account earlier), and secondly, the modern society appear to require an overall higher degree of literacy. Since now more people than ever get further education (I can only speak for Scandinavia) this probably leave a smaller group more marginalised and alienated than ever before.
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There is much work done on these points by a number of National and Internationals Agencies. I will be happy to provide you with links if you are interested. Privately.
A general tendency is the scissor effect between privileged and unprivileged sections of any modern population, on any parameter. It appears to be unavoidable. To my knowledge any tentative of correcting it has demonstrated itself not only ineffective but often an aggravating factor, on longer times, on the scissor, not necessarily on the absolute values.
There are countries and societies where moving up on the social stair is facilitated, other where this is more arduous. But this applies to individuals, not to sections of the population.
