Dalai clique's "cultural genocide" untenable
Since the 14th Dalai Lama has been peddling the so called "cultural genocide" around the world for so many years yielding little progress, people may wonder: Are there any new tricks that they can make up? Will all these tricks work?
"Cultural genocide" has been an important guise for the Dalai cliques political intention since they first used the term in 1980s and repeatedly claimed that Tibet's "religious, cultural, linguistic and ethnic characteristics are on the brink of extinction".
The Dalai Lama fully knows the argument will excite the sensitive nerves of some western political powers who always chant "protection of human rights". They cater to each other and stir up to "put pressure on China".
“Yet some Westerners' knowledge about Tibet stops at either the fictional place of Shangri-La in the novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton, or stories about ‘a place invaded by Han Chinese’ and ‘a culture on the brink of extinction’.” as Liu Xiaoming, Chinese ambassador to Britain, told on an article on the Telegraph of UK in 2012.
Most of them never have a chance to see and know the real Tibet.
"What I saw in Tibet is not like what I read from the French press and books," French writer and Tibet researcher Maxime Vivas once said during an interview.
"The signs are written in Tibetan. The temples and monasteries are full and people do pray in the streets. Religion is omnipresent," he said.
"Today's Tibet is a fascinating place to visit, yet no longer distant. Tibetan culture is as special as ever, yet no longer mysterious," said Liu Xiaoming, who express the Tibetan people’s innermost thought.
Education and culture, once privilege exclusive to monks and the ruling elite in old Tibet, are now offered equally to all Tibetan people. The Tibetan culture is not closed as well, which needs exchanges with the outside world.
Tibetan ethnic group and its culture won’t stagnate and remain in a state similar to the Middle Ages as the 14th Dalai Lama wants, while he himself enjoys the fruits of modern civilization and culture.
In fact, the best way to kill a traditional culture is to isolate it from modern society in the name of "protection".
The "cultural genocide" that the Dalai Lama has been advocating is neither traditional, nor civilized, neither religious, nor humanistic. It is merely a scheme for the Dalai Lama to pursue “Tibet independence”, to resume his rule in the theocratic society.
Most importantly, such a scheme of historical retrogression will collapse itself.
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