Just want to share a little bit of my information. I haven't been to tibet, but I've stayed in some tibetan area around tibet, like sichuan or yunnan province. for the tibetans I met, they have some characters
1, friendly and honest,
2, poor and low educated, some rich family can speak good mandarin, while the poor can understand but have a strong accent I can't understand.
3, they are not complaining Chinese, as least for those I met, they learn chinese culture from tv, they said because Chinese are rich.
4, they have the ambition to go to east china, where there are lot of opportunities, but they are less competitive to Chinese in education and hard working, they rarely make it.
5, they are kind of lazy, especially guys... woman work harder.
my opinion,
1, I will say it's unfair to China to say this culture is different, so it should be alone. it you want to distinguish nation with culture, China should at least be divided in more than 10 nations. the cultural differences among han people can be more than the difference between some han and minority ethnics. The main point of Chinese culture is 'wide', that can contains all different cultures.
2, it is inevitable the cultures asimulate through communication. many culture have been dead or transformed through history. but that's the way it is. But we still see through centuries, cantonese still speak cantonese, taiwanese still speak taiwanese. That's some good point of chinese culture. If we want to protect a culture by isolate it, American or everybody should just close their companies and stop trading or work oversea.
3, no matter what we argue, tibet is part of china now, there is no way to separate it, if people really care tibet, think for them, help them within the system. be mature.
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