blog.studentsforafreetibet.org — Chines Policy: "Order Nr.5 is all the reincarnations of the high lamas are selected by the Tibetans (...) but now the Chinese they want to control that reincarnation through their Order Nr.5 and want to put their control over the reincarnation of the lamas. If his Holiness passes away they have the control of the next Dalai Lama." (WTF?!)
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Closed AccountApr 6, 2008
In the case of Catholicism, it's a little more complicated than that: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Patriotic_Cat">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Patriotic_Cat</a> ...Which is not to say their record is all that good.
nemrelApr 8, 2008
Is that a bumper sticker? If not please submit it to Northen Sun (google them), so I can have it on my car!
nemrelApr 8, 2008
Hey I happened to have bought a $20,000 laptop that says it is completely made in America. Sure it doesn't work all the time, most of time, ok any of the time, but when fascism strikes I can sure as hell use it to hit people!
trevalvfApr 13, 2008
Mindless4ever: US citizens that are outraged by what the Chinese have been doing to Tibetans are the same US citizens that have been against the war and occupation of Iraq all along. You'd know this if you learned more about us first before jumping to judgmental conclusions.
applecherrybombApr 19, 2008
How much more media coverage can you get aside from the Olympics? China is opening up, just gradually, you can't just expect them to blow wide open.
beijing08facadeMay 2, 2008
Beijing (as well as sympathetic Western scholars such as Michael Parenti, Tom Grunfeld and Anna Louise Strong) asserts that "pre-liberation" Tibet was a medieval, oppressive society consisting of "landowners, serfs and slaves." Tashi Rabgay, a Tibetan scholar at Harvard, points out that these three alleged social classes are arbitrary and revisionist classifications that have no basis in reality. There were indeed indentured farmers in old Tibet. There were also merchants, nomads, traders, non-indentured farmers, hunters, bandits, monks, nuns, musicians, aristocrats and artists. Tibetan society was a vast, multifaceted affair, as real societies tend to be. To try to reduce it to three base experiences (and non-representative experiences at that) is to engage in the worst kind of revisionism.No country is perfect and many Tibetans (including the Dalai Lama) admit that old Tibet had its flaws and inequities (setting aside whether things are better under Chinese occupation). But taking every real or imagined shortcoming that happened in a country over a 600-year period and labeling it the "way it was" is hardly legitimate history. Any society seen through this blurry lens would come up short. And in many ways, such as the elimination of the death penalty, Tibet was perhaps ahead of its time. The young 14th Dalai Lama had begun to promote land reform laws and other improvements, but China's take-over halted these advances. It is instructive to note that today the Tibetan government-in-exile is a democracy while China and Tibet are under communist dictatorship.The crucial subtext of Beijing's condemnation of Tibet's "feudal" past is a classic colonialist argument that the target's alleged backwardness serves as a justification for invasion and occupation. These are the politics of the colonist, in which the "native" is dehumanized, robbed of agency, and debased in order to make occupation more palatable or even necessary and "civilizing." China has no more right to occupy a "backward" Tibet than Britain had to carry the "white man's burden" in India or Hong Kong.