>>21499332>>21499341If anything it's more complex. There's three writing systems; katakana, hiragana, and kanji. And you need to know all of them to some extent.
People think ideograms are "more primitive" because the West moved on to alphabets, but alphabets are generally more popular because they're easier to learn. Hiragana, which sorta functions that way, is "lady's writing" and was invented because women were generally too dumb to do kanji.
And anyway the idea that kanji are impossible doesn't really match. Any native English speakers reading my post are likely not using 50-80% of the letters I'm typing to actually read the word; most English readers just use the first and last letter, and judge the word from how long it is. For instance;
Y_u c_n e____y r__d t__s e__n if I l___e o_t m__t of t_e l_____s.
That's basically the same as reading an ideogram. So it's what you end up doing with familiarity anyway. Main issue is that if you see a new kanji it's harder to puzzle out than a new word in an alphabet, but semantic comprehension still requires some other resource; for instance if you don't know the word "semantic" you can sound it out but you still don't know what it means, so how much did you gain from having access to an alphabet? There's tradeoffs but kanji have stuff going for them.
To me the need to find East Asians "dumb" or "uncreative" strikes me as the meanest, lowest form of basic bitch racism available. Smart racism is crime statistics, noticing Jews, allowing yourself to be aware of bell curves; it's not making up problems to have with a civilization that's mostly as successful as ours out of pure spite.
