Originally Posted by
yeunganson
More precisely, he is either
1) From Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macau
or
2) From Chinese Communities outside of China
or
3) born and educated before the 1960s in China when the Communist Government simplified the original Traditional characters
My hunch is that a dislike for the PRC government could be at play here, as I've never met anyone from HK or Taiwan that couldn't make their way through a mainland newspaper or website; aside from the 80% of the characters that are identical, most simplifications aren't all that difficult to piece together.