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Gumshoe
Gumshoe

Oh cool, I guess the community is supporting this white genocide bullshit now. Nice. Also, since this quote is taken horribly out of context, here's a link to the actual quote: https://www.dalailama.com/messages/tibet/10th-march-archive/1997

"New measures to curtail the use of Tibetan language in education were introduced. The Tibet University in Lhasa has been compelled to teach even Tibetan history in the Chinese language at the Tibetan Language Department. Experimental Tibetan language middle schools, established in 1980s with the active encouragement and support of the late Panchen Lama, are being closed down. These schools were very successful and highly appreciated by Tibetans.

These new measures in the field of culture, religion and education, coupled with the unabated influx of Chinese immigrants to Tibet, which has the effect of overwhelming Tibet's distinct cultural and religious identity and reducing the Tibetans to an insignificant minority in their own country, amount to a policy of cultural genocide. Today, in most of the major towns and cities Tibetans are already marginalised. If this population transfer is allowed to continue, Tibetan civilization will cease to exist in a few decades."

He's not referring to "immigrants" coming from another country looking for work or fleeing war. He's talking about literal government-run colonisation from China, which is organised with the direct intention of weakening Tibet and making it more like the rest of China.

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Briham
Briham

in reply to cd0m

Are people being forbidden from speaking European languages? Are schools in France no longer allowed to teach in French? Is Italian art being destroyed? Are German children being given Syrian or Sudanese names?

Look at Japanese occupation of Korea. None of the cultural suppression that happened there is occurring in Europe. It's like night and day. Your assertion that there is no difference is absolutely ridiculous.

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