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@14:52 I've actually participated in one of those dances before when I visited the Tibetan regions in China many years ago. But I didn't last very long because I didn't know how to do the moves and felt a little stupid 😅
If you care about minority's human right that much, please go visiting American Indian reservations and give the world a report afterward. I visited the Reservation once, I was extremely sad about their living condition.
70 Years ago, 90% of Tibetans were serfs. The average life expectancy for Tibetans rose from 35.5 years in 1951 to over 67 years by the end of 2010. Infant mortality rate dropped from 430 infant deaths per 1,000 in 1951 to 20.69 per 1,000 by the year of 2010. Literacy increased from below 5% to over 90%. There are new schools, hospitals, highways, airports, a high speed rail from Lhasa to Beijing. Tourism is booming, Tibetans live in peace and very rapidly increasing prosperity.
The Western politicians especially the American are particularly fond of the ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang, but they despise ethnic minorities everywhere else like the Native Americans whose populations and culture have been wiped out and continued being suppressed.
Why care about what the US thinks. It's none of their business. Unfortunately, the US and her cronies love to poke their noses in everyone's lives to create dissension and chaos all over the world - all for money!!! Such hypocrites.
If Tibet should be an independent country, then so should Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, Guam, California, and Texas. Part of the land at the Mexican border should also be returned to Mexico. That's only fair.
Prior to 1959 Tibetans were under a Slavey system called serfdom. Tibetans were subject to working free labor to serve higher monks that held power in their society and no private ownership of land which was held strictly by high serf monks. Pedo Lama with help of the CIA tried to retain and preserve this system. Pedo Lama tried challenge the workers party with the help and backing of India and american CIA. In 1959 following the CCPs exile of the Pedo Lama. The feudal serfdom system was abolished. Land reform was introduced and redistribution to the people/peasants. Today Xizang aka Tibet is a very prosperous place. Way more prosperous than both India and America. 🇨🇳
As we speak, tens of thousands young indian Tibetans are leaving/fleeing india to seek work to help their families back home. Their prospects back in india are so grim and the sense of hopelessness amongst them is so high.
Talking about Dalai Lama, I remember there are actually two or three of them of equal religious position in Tibet. The one co-ops with the US government went to Nepal, the other who co-ops with the Chinese government stays in Tibet. The former is the one very well known around the world while the latter is rarely reported in the West news media. Interesting.
I think QinghHai is the most mysterious region, such big area but very small population, Not suitable for human habitation,and less developed compare to Tibet, I went to Tibet 3 times, it becoming a luxurious resort
Hawaii is a good example that is rarely mentioned. It's worse, since we annexed them, and pretty much wiped out whatever they had there in terms of government and culture. Leaving a little for purposes of tourism I suppose? NO talk of "autonomous region". Aside from the doubling of life span, INCOME in Tibet has probably increased a thousand times since the revolution, incomparable really. What to speak of having roads and water and electricity and even OXYGEN on tap in places....
America is the most caring country in the world. They care so much for the freedom of the Tibetans that they are prepared to defy their own mother in law 😄
About the spinning wheels: in old times, because most Tibetans were illiterate, they could not read the scripts, thus the wheels were made with the scriptures on them. Spinning the wheel is like reading the scripts
I missed the opening shot & I was wondering if you were riding on an animal at the beginning. Thank goodness I rewinded after the video ended & got my answer -- Camel! 😁
I might add that Indian apologists never miss a chance to lecture the Brits of their sin of colonialism. What people don't realize is that while British colonialism is a thing of the past, Indian colonialism is alive and well in Asia. The legacy of the British Raj is that they unwittingly created a bully. British historian Arnold Toynbee noted that while Indians were subjects of the British Crown, they were largely indifferent to British India's borders and even condemned the British Empire's annexation of distant territories as immoral. In 1921, India's Congress Party went so far as to urge neighboring states not to enter into treaties with the Imperial Power (the British Raj). However, once Indians assumed sovereignty, their perspective underwent a complete reversal. Suddenly, the once-distant lands of the British Indian Empire were seen as sacred Indian territory. Even more alarmingly, India began asserting territorial claims over areas that had never been claimed, let alone controlled, by the British Raj. In essence, aspiring to emulate the British Raj, India became expansionist in its own right. In Arnold Toynbee's words: "It is queer that lines drawn by British officials should have been consecrated as precious national assets of the British Indian Empire's non-British successor states. At the time when those lines were drawn the transaction produced no stir among the . . . Indian . . . subjects, as they then were, of the British crown. If any of them paid any attention to what Durand and McMahon were doing, they will have written it off as just another move in the immoral game of power politics that the British Imperialists were playing at the Indian tax-payers' expense. The present consecration of these British-made lines as heirlooms in the successor states' national heritages is an unexpected and unfortunate turn of History's wheel." And so, in February 1951, three and a half years after the British had left the subcontinent, India invaded and annexed Tawang in South Tibet. Tawang is the Sixth Dalai Lama's birthplace and home to the four-hundred-years old Tawang Monastery. In 1987 India renamed the area to the so-called Arunachal Pradesh to obscure its historical ties to Tibet. You would never read about this in the Western media.
Are non-Chinese nationals only allowed in Tibet with a tour group? Some HKers I know told me, but HKers with home return permits (ie Chinese natonals) were allowed to go as solo travellers. They themselves decided to travel wih a tour group out of conveniency. They enjoyed their time there but felt the effects of the high elevation.
According to some other channels they don’t need permit nor travel in groups in Tibet. The most sensitive part is the borders towns with India where the boundaries are contested. all tourists regardless of nationality needs permit to visit the bordering areas
There are a lot of no-man's land in Tibet, and these places are very dangerous for tourists. Traveling with a group is a safe and secure travel plan. Get help in time in case of emergency.
The temple where foreigners weren’t allowed in, did it included Chinese (Han) and other Chinese ethnics…such as Uighur or none asiatic looking Chinese? How do they tell who’s Chinese? There are many Russian Chinese too. Love your video and energetic narrative. Thanks for sharing your insightful thoughts.
Why don’t you talk about eliminating Tibetan language in many schools.. if those Tibetans in videos and you don’t talk about having freedom and betterment in Tibet, China wouldn’t have gave you right to make that video.
In fact, it is bilingual education. The street signs are in three languages, in addition to Tibetan, Chinese and English. 10:04, you can see the store on the side of the road, Tibetan and Chinese
Tibet has been never been part of China in history. Moreover Tibet was more powerful than China few decades back n conquer n invaded china during tang dynasty. Please first do your research properly. Chinese money will not pay for your whole life.
the death penalty had been abolished in old Tibet as early as 1896. The torture of chopping off limbs was abolished in 1913 by the 13th Dalai Lama......
Tibet was an independent country prior to 1950; when China invaded Tibet in 1950. According to Manchu historical records ( from 1644 to 1911 ), Tibet was never a part of China ( Prof Hon Shiang). One should read Tibet and Manchu relationship by above mentioned author.
The real history of Tibet is, that Tibet was an independent country prior to 1950. Tibet lost independence in 1950 after Chinese invasion and forced signing of 1951 17 point agreement. For proof read Manchu dynasty historical scroll record 1644 to1911, Tibet was never a part of China. Book-- Tibet and Manchu relationship, by Prof Hon Shiang ( Chinese). Arten
Also, let me use to opportunity to bring awareness to the oppression of Tibetans. No, I am not talking about the Tibetans in China. I am talking about Tibetans in occupied South Tibet, which was annexed by India in 1951 and made a state by India in 1987 to become the so-called Arunachal Pradesh. The Tibetans in occupied South Tibet are fast becoming strangers in their own native homeland because the Indian government are settling Indians in the region to change the demographic structure of the region. The Indians like to mock them, calling them Chinese as a form of insult (sometime calling them names such as the C* word or the M* word.) Rape by Indians in occupied South Tibet is a major source of resentment of the locals to the Indian occupiers. Another thing is that India simply don't trust the locals and like to accuse them of being Chinese spy if they don't display enough loyalty to the Indian occupier. This area is tightly controlled by India with limited access to the outside world. In 2014 a Tibetan Chinese called Nido Tania went to Delhi and was beaten to death because he looked 'Chinese'. He case was hardly an isolated one. Rape by Indians is a major source of tension in South Tibet against India. Today South Tibet is restless, and India knows it. This is the reason AFSPA (Armed Force Special Powers Act) is imposed on South Tibet. AFSPA dates back to the colonial times when the British was running South Asia. AFSPA gives India the power to detain or kill anyone with impunity. AFSPA is imposed on regions India deemed 'disturbed', such as Kashmir and South Tibet. The Tibetans in occupied South Tibet are voiceless people because they are not the right kind of Tibetans, so their plight is ignored by the Western world because of ugly geopolitical politics. I have yet to hear from the Western media of any concern of human rights abuse of the Tibetans in occupied South Tibet by India. Free South Tibet from India.