The different characters are made by different rulers, in the final analysis are determined by the ruling classes who are in power. GET IT?

I think it would be really interesting if an experiment were done to test how writing Chinese in Roman characters affects Chinese and foreign language learners. That being said, I love 汉字 and wouldn't want for them to go away. After years and years of studying the language, it has two advantages for me: 1) when encountering new words in books/articles, I frequently know the meanings of the words without a dictionary; 2) it makes it really easy to learn new words.

Due to the complexity of written Chinese there is a very high number of illiterate or barely literate people in China. To make learning a bit easier some characters were 'simplified', means using fewer strokes for some characters. Since it effect only about 10% of characters, and since we mainly use PCs nowadays to write Chinese the benefit is rather small. PS: Pinyin can't be used to replace Chinese since Mandarin has very few sounds and Pinyin would make the written language very ambiguous. You should be aware that your question totally disqualifies you as a language teacher.

The simplified and traditional characters are both good. Pinyin is helpful in speaking, that's all.

The different characters are made by different rulers, in the final analysis are determined by the ruling classes who are in power. GET IT?