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Like high fiber diets?
The one I had in mind was the destruction of Vietnam's previous teaching system to replace it with colonial schools. It resulted in a lot less alphabetization of Viet people. Also, the roads that were built were just pipeline from plantations to ports to have the resources exported as fast as possible.
I don't know about high fiber diets
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That was just a joke based on "colon"
ccording to Tran Duc Thao, Viet Nam had a school system that provided very high alphabetization of the people. After the colonization, the old school system was wiped out and replaced by a colonial system...
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Given that alphabetization means to order by letter of the alphabet, this doesn't clear anything up for me.
I assume it's a non-native English speaker talking about literacy. In many languages, the word for "literate" is some form of "alphabetized" (i.e. someone who knows the alphabet)