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[–] aidan@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Weird I've heard about this from so many countries, from Japan to almost every communist country.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

The US did it too for a while. The justification seems to have been something to do with left-handed versus right-handed brain processing or something like that. They were worried that they were going to get a generation of artists and poets and that no one would actually do anything industrial.

Also there's something in the Bible about people having left hands being agents of the devil, although it seems to only be in certain editions.

The idea that left-handed people are more artistic than right-handed people has been debunked for years now and yet it's still something people seem to think is true.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This reminds me of one of my absolute fav talks on the left/right brain debate.

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[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

the left hand is controlled by the right side of the brain

[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Happened to my mother. In the US, in the 30s.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Happened to my wife's mother in the Netherlands in the 1950s. She did everything left handed but wrote right handed.

By the 1970s this was over here, so I guess the southpaws were able to convert enough people to their godless ways. πŸ˜‰

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I guess the southpaws were able to convert enough people to their ~~godless~~ sinister ways.

FTFY

It happened to me when I was a child in New York late 90s