Tibet holds on. Bhuchung Tsering @BuchungTsering, vice president of the International Campaign for Tibet
Dec 02, 2021, 01:19 AM
Photo: Tsam ceremony at the Gusinoozersky datsan. 1880s.
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China is trying to force all schools, commerce, and public activities in Tibet to take place only in Chinese language (gwo yu, or putung hwa). The goal, obviously, is what's called cultural genocide—strangling the ancient culture via forbidding the language. Reminiscent of the Boers' demand to teach South Africans only in Afrikaans, a bastardized Dutch, a creole understood barely at all outside of South Africa. Students across the country rose up in righteous fury; this was one of the harbingers of liberation and the eventual national acceptance of Nelson Mandela.
China is trying to force all schools, commerce, and public activities in Tibet to take place only in Chinese language (gwo yu, or putung hwa). The goal, obviously, is what's called cultural genocide—strangling the ancient culture via forbidding the language. Reminiscent of the Boers' demand to teach South Africans only in Afrikaans, a bastardized Dutch, a creole understood barely at all outside of South Africa. Students across the country rose up in righteous fury; this was one of the harbingers of liberation and the eventual national acceptance of Nelson Mandela.
Tibet holds on. Bhuchung Tsering @BuchungTsering, vice president of the International Campaign for Tibet