Re: (Free Tibet) Why Tibet??

"betelnut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "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, 

Of course they (meaning the Chinese Communist Party) did.  Tibet's
traditional language and culture, being almost completely different
from those of China, is living proof that Tibet developed without
significant Chinese influence.  That's why they're seen as a threat to
the CCP claim that "Tibet has always been a part of China".  No one
looking at the evidence objectively could believe that, thus the
cultural genocide in Tibet is simply a way of destroying damaging
evidence.

>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.