I honestly believe you asked this question out of your ignorance.
Despite the apparent difficulty maybe the people of China like their language nevertheless.
Languages vary widely in their expressivity.
Also, I think language (and the script) is closely related to the culture as well. The people of China might not want to let go of that.
And what about the literature and everything that's already written down in their native language? It's not just a question of translating everything. Trust me, things get lost in translation.
Also, if we're going to have everybody in the world work with the same script, there are arguably better candidates such as Arabic and Sanskrit.
In Sanskrit, for example, there's only about 50 letters (49?), it's impossible to mispronounce, the whole gender-neutralization situation becomes irrelevant (because well, things like car, village, fruit, pencil etc have genders (of which there are 3 btw — masculine, feminine, and neuter, but they aren't used in the way you would think)).
> why haven't china moved to a western (?) alphabet based writing?
By the way, here's how this appears to us non-westerners — okay here comes this Western hero who thinks the rest of the world is nonsense and should be replaced by the superior Western™ system.
Despite the apparent difficulty maybe the people of China like their language nevertheless.
Languages vary widely in their expressivity.
Also, I think language (and the script) is closely related to the culture as well. The people of China might not want to let go of that.
And what about the literature and everything that's already written down in their native language? It's not just a question of translating everything. Trust me, things get lost in translation.
Also, if we're going to have everybody in the world work with the same script, there are arguably better candidates such as Arabic and Sanskrit.
In Sanskrit, for example, there's only about 50 letters (49?), it's impossible to mispronounce, the whole gender-neutralization situation becomes irrelevant (because well, things like car, village, fruit, pencil etc have genders (of which there are 3 btw — masculine, feminine, and neuter, but they aren't used in the way you would think)).
> why haven't china moved to a western (?) alphabet based writing?
By the way, here's how this appears to us non-westerners — okay here comes this Western hero who thinks the rest of the world is nonsense and should be replaced by the superior Western™ system.