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(frozen comment) Re: To people who watched Iron Fist: A Very Important Question about Danny Rand and education

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Maybe not--I admit, I don't really know much about the day-to-day workings of Tibetan monasteries or Buddhist monasteries in general. But I can imagine it might still permit a deep sense of social loneliness/alienation and have him be very withdrawn, especially emotionally.

We do have obligatory readings! It depends on which school, class, and grade level, and in college it's often a lot more, but we do have books/essays/short stories/poetry/texts that we have to read for various classes.

I mean, maybe, but I...I'm not saying that totally illiterate people can't function, but I do think it would be sharply noticeable to people who know them closely (unless they loved TV and were up on pop culture in that sense, or were huge jocks/sports fanatics and had jobs that didn't require any reading), and at least in the particular area where I live there aren't any people who 'never read a book in their life'. (Which is not representative of the whole US or of NYC either.) And especially with somebody like Danny who doesn't have the requisite socialcultural competence or people-skills to hide any gaps or otherwise make up for them, I really do think that in many areas he just wouldn't function either, or only would because of his money.