>>4829285Traditional is used by the chinese diaspora around the world that fled china all the way up to the point where chinese were barred from fleeing.
So, the chinese that went to san francisco or victoria australia for the gold rushes in the 19th cen, the vast numbers (which spiked after the ccp took control in 49) throughout SEA. Taiwan too obviously. Unfortunately besides the latter it's dying out as the younger generations of chinese diaspora, if they learn chinese at all, will learn simplified because it is more widely used and because of PRC's prominence in affairs these days.
The last vestige of what is a true "china town" now that hong kong has been well and truly fucked resides in bangkok, thailand: those fat, juicy complicated traditonal characters galore on signs everywhere and none of this hideous simplified 1984 newspeak type shit.
The old folks there only know traditional and scoff at this fugly maoist skeleton of a once magnificent writing system.
