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”.
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”.
China’s conduct towards ethnic minorities is pretty bad at times, but this seems pretty lukewarm.
If you say so
I’m not defending China’s treatment of Tibetans in general, but a uniform language of instruction is a nothingburger. Not a nothingburger I’m happy about to be clear, but still a nothingburger. Otherwise at least half the world would be engaging in cultural genocide
Sure, but they are also banning after hours school teaching Tibetan
Yeah, and that’s not a nothingburger. Like I said I’m objecting to the focus on school education in Mandarin in thr article, not defending China’s broader treatment of Tibetans.
Yes. This is why both nobody cares and it’s a huge deal. We’ve done this to each other for thousands of years. The definition of genocide is the destruction of a culture, it doesn’t have to be killing. It can be this.
What is ‘this’? Compulsory education in the Tibetan language and culture? Because that’s what actually goes on in Tibet.
Yes the primary language taught is the one that will allow them to have access to the entire rest of the country. They are still forced to learn tibetan to receive a certificate of education.
Racist choice of wording. Forced to learn a native language after experiencing an invasion in less than a lifetime.
Interesting
You understand Tibet was not invaded right? Just like the US was not invaded by the French during the revolutionary war.
You’re right Tibet isn’t even real. Avatar the Last Airbender isn’t an allegory to anything.
Hahahaha China’s imperialism is always like “the Chinese army arrived, the enemy laid down their guns and embraced their saviors. There was 90,000 less Tibetans two years later”
And you think anybody buys it.
It’s like the fishermen vessels shit they pull, tiananmen square, “color revolutions” it’s so childish. Absolutely pathetic and transparent.
The Tibetan civil war is an extensively documented historical event. Until the 1980s it wasn’t even controversial that China aided the popular uprising against the Child Rapist theocracy in charge. Even then the current propaganda line is ‘it wasn’t even a real civil war, it was instigated by communists living in the country knowing they’d get Russian and Chinese support.’
The propaganda has never been 'there was no civil war china, despite being incredibly vulnerable and weak having just won its own civil war and recovering from the early days cut off by the Western world for choosing communism, just decided to invade a country randomly for imperialism despite not having a national identity yet that would imply imperialism.
Your misunderstanding, or total ignorance of history does not mean there’s a magical conspiracy from those evil communist slurs.
In general it’s lukewarm. The cases that make the headlines are generally extreme isolated examples from what I have found