Thank you, hehe. BTW, I'm from Nei Mongal😊
Mell, I finally got some time aside the work that pays me. Let's talk.
I guess I got a little excited. It's not a defeatist attitude. It's a fed-up attitude. Too many people make their judgments without learning the basics, and too many people try to lecture chinese.
Let's come down. You said that "because some things did not work in the more democratic countries, is not a reason to avoid moving forward." I guess you are referring to the status in Tibet. I assume you don't have a question about the legitimacy of Chinese ruling in Tibet. If you do, you will have to consult with your government, because a majority of today's countries recognize the legal ruling of china over Tibet. I don't want to go too deep on this issue because I did not major in history or politics and I hate researching.
Now, let's take a look at the improvements of Tibet. I'm not trying to lecture anyone here. I'm an engineer. let's talk about pure numbers. I did some search over the internet and found the following numbers about Tibet. Because of your prejudice against chinese government, I did not use any numbers from official chinese governmental sources. Note that for some topics I also used Indian information for comparison. the numbers appear first are the statistics about Tibet.
illiteracy: 1950's - about 100%!((MISSING)only the highest-ranked Tibetan monks memorized scriptures rather than learned to read them); 2000 - 32.5%! (MISSING) Literacy rate in India in 2007: 66%!
(MISSING)
Formal school: 1950 - about 0; 2000 - over 3,000 schools with several institutions of higher learning (in Lhasa)
Population: 1969 - 1.4805 million; 2000 - 2.62 million
GDP: Tibet's GDP was expected to reach 43.7 billion yuan (about $6.3 billion) in 2009, up 170 percent from that in 2000 and posting an annual growth of 12.3 percent over the past nine years. That is about $3000 per capita. In the same year, per-capita income in India is $1033.
Mortality: 1950 - 28 per 1000; 2000 - 6.6 per 1000. India mortality rate was 8.49 per 1000 in 2003.
So from which aspect you came up the conclusion that it is not moving forward?
In terms of tibetan culture:
Religion: Tibetans are completely free to practice Tibetan Buddhism, although I think they are not allowed to follow Dalai Lama. To me, this is totally reasonable because Dalai Lama is a violent separatist. Chinese government has certain regulations over certain religions and these regulations not just apply to Tibetans, but to all chinese. From this respective, you need to save us all. However, as long as you don’t practice an illegal religion concerning national security, every chinese is free to choose their religion. Many Han chinese actually practice Tibetan Buddhism, including the famous movie star Jet Li.
Language: there are schools teach tibetan all over tibet. However, if we use our common sense, in today’s society, I guess not many parents want their children learn tibetan instead of chinese and english. Otherwise, they will probably end up in temples whining about their life forever. On the other hand, I’m always curious that people like you want tibetans to stick on their language. Why is that? You need some people to remain poor and uncompetitive just so that rich tourists like you can have something fun to watch? Why is that you don’t complain that english-speaking countries have been extinguishing the cultures of all other peoples using their language? If learning a useful language is extinguishing their own culture, then I really need to save myself first. It was my parents and the chinese education system that forced me to study english in the old days. however, I'm actually grateful that I could learn english and because of it, I'm not left behind by the society.
Human rights: other than the religion problem you are talking about, which “human right” problem of tibetan people in your mind does not exist in other chinese provinces or any other developing countries? There are Han protesters outside china as well, why is that you only pick on Tibet? I don’t want to repeat what I said in the previous posts. Chinese government may not meet everyone’s expectations, but which one does? Compare to most developing countries, I actually think china is doing much better. This does not mean there is no room to improve. Actually, many many chinese have been fighting for their basic rights. I personally am not satisfied with many aspects of the way how the government runs this country, but I look at both pros and cons.
In addition to common sense, the only things I put up here are pure facts that are available publicly online. Why is that you don't look?
Here are the references I used for the numbers. Please note that this is not a scientific study, but you are more than welcome to point out any mistake you see.
literacy in India: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India
GDP by country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita
Wikipedia - Tibet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet
Unescap.org - Tibet: http://www.unescap.org/esid/psis/population/database/chinadata/tibet.htm
http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/tibet/pro-education.htm
http://www.freetibet.org/about/education
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