A new report by Human Rights Watch argues that the compulsory use of Chinese as the primary language in schools in Tibet raises “serious concerns under international human rights law”.

  • Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Yes, because the message they’re trying to push is “China bad” as a US-gvt and Zionist controlled “NGO”

    Yes but are they lying? Is it not true that China is unilaterally changing the primary language to Chinese for schools in Tibet?

    Yes, and I’d take it seriously if it was real and not fabricated propaganda

    Why do you say it is not real, human rights watch is just one source, a quick search leads to several sources you can find yourself. This is also not a new issue, there is information on the promotion of Mandarin over Chinese in Tibetan schools going back years. Just because you do not accept what is happening does not make it propagand

    Is China the aggressor in your instance, or are you projecting Western colonialist history onto China

    Colonialism is still colonialism, doesn’t matter if it’s Chinese or western it’s all the same. Erasure of cultural identity and especially language is always a big part.

    And if it were important to you, you’d be doing activism

    I don’t need you to tell me what I should be doing buddy.

    I haven’t seen you do activism about, such as Breton or Occitan in France,

    To be fair you haven’t seen me do anything, I am an anonymous internet stranger. For all you know I was marching the streets of Rennes in support of my brothers there.

    This is also “whataboutism” on your part, one of the lowest forms of rhetoric. Up your game and stick to the point at hand please.

    is, TODAY, the official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. In the 1950s, there were about a million speakers of Tibetan in China, today there are about 6 million.

    I see that you capitalised the word today, either you understand the concept of time or are, like Donald Trump, a fool who capitalises words for no reason. You should also then be able to understand that this measure is meant to reduce the amount of native Tibetan speakers going forwards in time. You seem to be trying to use the fact that there are more Tibetan speakers today than in 1950 as proof that China is not trying to reduce native Tibetan speakers in the future? How does this make sense in your thick head buddy? Does this type of argument ever work on people?

    Have you ever considered that maybe the Zionists, the USA AND China are all bad? All are shitty imperial colonists.

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      2 hours ago

      Cool, keep believing your western made-up anti-China propaganda about Tibet erasure while all scholars on the topic agree that the language is healthy, preserved, and the number of speakers keeps growing…