Re: (Free Tibet) Why Tibet??

"Makoto Taniguchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "betelnut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > tibet has been a backward civilization stuck in the middle ages.  the
> > chinese must civilize them.
>
> You sound just as bad as those Christian missionaries who have
> stripped the Native Americans of their land and culture.

no no.  there's a difference.  chinese had no intention of wiping out their
population or culture, but only to modernize, educate and civilize them.
tibet today is thriving as a complete entity within tibet.  chinese never
had the intention to convert tibetan buddhists into atheists.