We Measure the Earth with our Bodies,The surest way to eradicate a culture is to sever that culture from its children. This week, we learned that China has forcedto leave their homes for state-run boarding schools, where they are taught the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, which has colonized Tibet.
It is devastating to learn that Tibetan children are being sent away for indoctrination in numbers comparable to the estimatedTibetans have endured a brutal colonial occupation since the early 1950s, with waves of refugees fleeing into exile and many settling in Canada. My own parents and grandparents left their ancestral grasslands in western Tibet and crossed the Himalayas in 1959. Entering and leaving Tibet has become increasingly difficult, dangerous and rare.
Like Western colonizers, the Chinese government holds a deep-seated racist and paternalistic worldview. Tibetans are viewed as essentially barbaric, unclean, backward and inferior to the Han Chinese role model. Whereas in the early 2000s there was some semblance of tolerance for Tibetan-language education, Mr. Xi has called for non-Chinese groups to be remade with Chinese identities to prevent “separatist thoughts” or opposition to Beijing’s rule.
Colonization through education could mean that China finally succeeds in its long-term project of erasing Tibetan identity. Take away a child’s mother tongue and their culture becomes mute to them. In a matter of decades, we may witness the extinction of Tibetan heritage on its own soil. What remains then? Perhaps just the exotic, ultimately dehumanizing ethnic stereotype of Tibetans currently promoted within Chinese popular culture and its broader national mythos.
Well let's just boycott all hosting by Canada and China for the next 4 years starting now. Heck lest just BoycottBeijing2022 and BoycottVancouver2030. It's all Olympics blood money and taxpayers foot the bill. BoycottBeijingOlympics
Any priest overthere?
I suppose that is today's Canadians fault too!!!!!!!!!!
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It's actually institutionalization in an abomination in God's eyes
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