That honor goes to finding out, back during my first stay in China in the mid-1980s, when glasses were in short supply, that spectacles were distributed with preference given to those who had attained a high level of education, the notion being that academics and teachers needed to read for a living.

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With glasses, 73% thought they would find them irritating to wear, while 52% did not like the way spectacles made them look.

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