A new report by Human Rights Watch argues that the compulsory use of Chinese as the primary language in schools in Tibet raises “serious concerns under international human rights law”.

  • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Tibet is being oppressed. The Dalai Lama was in the Epstein files.

    Those thing are not mutually exclusive

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      He’s the official leader of Tibet in the west. He represents the Tibetan political movement. If you understood Tibet as the Lama sees it, you’d understand what’s being advocated for is a theocracy that practiced slavery. “Free Tibet” is Lost Cause revisionism.

      Before modern Chinese administration, monasteries and the DL held great power, owned vast swaths of land and held legal authority, similar to the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. Since China incorporated Tibet there’s been secular law and modern infrastructure built in Tibet.

      The Chinese government wants all areas it governs to have industries which give people work to build a better quality of life. Part of that is having the communication skills to interact with the job market in China. Mandarin in schools is basic education for future citizens to find work. And outside of anti-government, pro-monastery propaganda, Tibetans are allowed to say, write, and read anything they want in their native language.

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          5 hours ago

          Very funny. But for the US to be strong enough to save the Tibetans, first you would have to free all the poor US students who are being genocided into learning Spanish.

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            Lmfao you bots say the dumbest shit. Clearly you’ve never been in an American school or a Spanish class. I learned more Spanish being around people who speak it than school ever did. What the fuck are you trying to equate here?

            Ever notice how stupid you guys seem?

            The US is too weak to do anything right and they clearly suck. But also they have the most power to control every narrative and even power a faction in Tibet to cause problems for China

            We have a word for that. It’s one we typically bring up around with fascism too. Interesting huh.

      • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        There is a difference between government and culture. The Chinese are also trying to terminate the Tibetan language and the cultural customs of common people.

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          The Chinese are also trying to terminate the Tibetan language and the cultural customs of common people.

          no they arent

      • deft@lemmy.wtf
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        14 hours ago

        Ah but the big thing you’re missing. Is Tibet doesn’t want this.

        China has done everything it can to destroy the culture and make them culturally Chinese.

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          but the big thing you’re missing. Is Tibet doesn’t want this

          Really? Could you show us the polls proving discontent in Tibet? Or is it just an unfalsifiable claim made by the so-called "Tibet Government in Exile, itself funded by the US?

          You’re falling for US propaganda, you have literally no evidence that Tibetans living in Tibet have serious concerns with their government.

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            2 hours ago

            “yOu’Re fAlLinG fOr PrOpaGanDa!”

            If Tibet wanted to be China. They would. China has done everything it can to ruin their country and take them over.

            Because China is just as imperialist as any other major country.

            You’re trying to be a stupid little racist and act like I’m speaking for a group of people. Go look at their history they wanna be Tibet and you’re stupid to suggest anything else

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              58 minutes ago

              Go ahead, show me the surveys in Tibet Autonomous Region proving that Tibetans want to secede from China

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                I literally don’t have to. It’s very open history go read it yourself.

                You sinophiles and bots try so hard to put the burden of proof on me.

                If Tibet wanted to be China. The map would say “China”.

                It don’t. Not even in China. No stop licking my pant leg and go hang on an electrical wire.

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                  33 minutes ago

                  If Tibet wanted to be China. The map would say “China”.

                  It don’t. Not even in China

                  What the fuck are you talking about?

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          Tibet doesn’t want modern infrastructure like the Chinese have built? They don’t want a modern education or modern jobs? They want to be ruled by monasteries headed by the Dalai Lama, a theocracy led by a man in the Epstein files? You must be pretty racist against Tibetans to believe that.

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            14 hours ago

            They don’t want to be Chinese or China. The rest is irrelevant and quiet frankly insulting.

            Europeans said the same about indigenous Americans. I guess you support that too?

            It’s the same thing China is doing to Uyghur Muslims.

            It’s called genocide

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              They don’t want to be Chinese or China

              Again: did you ask Tibetans? Assert your source

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                2 hours ago

                Dumb question. They have made it clear throughout their history. They are Tibet. Not China.

                Colonizer ass question.

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                  “Colonizer ass question” is when you want to know the opinion of the locals instead of falling for US propaganda, sure buddy

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                    48 minutes ago

                    Lmfao yes the conflict between Tibet and China is because of the US.

                    Boogeyman ass propaganda loser

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              there is no genocide there, unjust prosecution of certain ethnicities? on smaller level yes. Genocide? not even close.

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                Genocide is the death of a culture. If China has it their way there would be no Tibet.

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              Even more insulting is comparing real genocide with having children take Mandarin classes.

              Show me videos of the Chinese treating the Tibetans the way Israelis treat Palestinians. Show me Chinese soldiers shooting missiles at Tibetan schools, hospitals, and places of worship. Show me the Chinese military killing Tibetans by the thousands and bragging about it.

              Why hasn’t the international criminal court put out an arrest warrant if an actual genocide is taking place? Cry me a river, you propagandistic liar!

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                Suck my nut it’s genocide and I don’t care how much you say it isn’t.

                We aren’t arguing an opinion. It’s a fact.

                “Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. Genocide is directed against the national group as an entity, and the actions involved are directed against individuals, not in their individual capacity, but as members of the national group”

      • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.uk
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        They even have tibetan on their banknotes iirc as well. I’ve never seen minority languages on the British bank notes. The best thing that I have seen is a Ceilidh on the £20 Ulster Bank note.

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        13 hours ago

        This investment is only to extract resources to support central china and suppress the Tibetans by increasing surveillance.

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            51 minutes ago

            Every bit of information you dont like must be the Jews. Crazy that people here are so blatant.

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              Stop conflating Zionism and Judaism, the most rabid Zionists in the US are all Christian conservatives. Conflating a cancerous, genocidal ideology such as Zionism with Judaism is very antisemitic.