Great, yet another China bad article that paints what is probably a jobs and reeducation program to modernize Tibet as something much more sinister.
Edit: Reeducation might be something as normal as going from an agricultural society to a modern one. Reeducation sounds very sinister, I'm sure, but Tibet was a feudal society just 60 years ago.
Also "reeducation" is entirely my phrasing and has connotations different from say "job training" or "education", which I could have easily used.
You can make almost any government program sound super sinister, especially when there are translation complications thrown into the mix.
> A report released in January by the Tibetan arm of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a high-profile advisory body to the government, describes internal discussions on strategies to tackle the “mental poverty” of rural laborers, including sending teams of officials into villages to carry out education and “guide the masses to create a happy life with their hardworking hands.”
I mean, we don't have to look elsewhere, direct quotes about this program sound super sinister
That their old culture, and its old power structures, are bad, and that the new culture, and the new power structures (with Han at the top) are good. New is good. Old is a bad look.
Are you pretending not to see how a language outside your tribe opens up more opportunities. The entire tribes of Africa and South America underwent the same massive foreign language reeducation now being demonized
Plenty of nineteenth-century type jobs. Anything modern - anything that actually improves their standards of living - requires the ability to read and write Chinese.
Edit: Reeducation might be something as normal as going from an agricultural society to a modern one. Reeducation sounds very sinister, I'm sure, but Tibet was a feudal society just 60 years ago.
Also "reeducation" is entirely my phrasing and has connotations different from say "job training" or "education", which I could have easily used.
You can make almost any government program sound super sinister, especially when there are translation complications thrown into the mix.