With our ever increasing human population on our small planet we all better practice cultural relativism or there will be nothing but suffering and hardship in our futures.

Tibetans remained a de-facto independent nation from 1912 to 1951.Tibet as a land was inhabitated by people who are called Tibetans. There were no Chinese hans in that region before 1959. The lhasa administration was the legitimate government then. But in 1951 Beijing forced the Tibetans to sign the 17 point agreement. That was not done with politics, but with 50,000 PLA troops as a threat waiting at the border.

When Tibetans didnot easily surrendered, the Chinese leader Chou En Lai went extra mile by including in The 17 point agreement gaurantees to maintain most of Tibet’s administrative and religious structure intact and promising the high ranking lamas and aristrocrats to keep their position (Which i find ironic, because the communist party was established to free the serfs. But China needed the Tibetans to sign the 17 point agreement, so it can be used as a legal document for peaceful liberation). Tibet was supposed to get a high degree of autonomy.But between 1952 and 1959, most of the promises were turned on its head and PLA began the process of destroying religious centers and destroying the Tibetans traditional lifestyles. When it became unbearable for the locales to stand such harsh treatment, Chushi Gang Druk(which the blogger mentions)emerged It initially comprised mostly of people from eastern Tibet. During that period,Hundreds of Tibetans from eastern Tibet fled to Central Tibet to escape the hardship.
By 1959, even the little trust that the Dalai lama has tried to build between his people and the Han Chinese was lost. And the rest was history.

Its unfortunate that Chinese still maintain the same attitude towards Tibetans and continue to treat Tibetans with han chauvanism. Most Han Chinese never really try to understand Tibetan way of life and culture. They just think, Tibet being a part of China has to be like other Chinese. I would like to ask this blogger if he tried to spend time with a Tibetan family and tried to learn Tibetan language and culture. I would like to ask if he ever cared to take a pilgrimage around the sacred mountains and monasteries. If he was among the first han chinese to have been to Tibet, did he make friends with any Tibetans and talked with the Tibetan about his identity and culture.

The reason I raise these questions is that, most Chinese I met are passionate about China’s claim over Tibet and would get fervent while defending its right over ownership of the land. But when asked what they know about Tibetan culture and identity. There were oceans away from having any knowledge about Tibet and Tibetans. Rather what I have seen in my experience is that Those Han chinese who express support for Tibetans rights to self rule and autonomy are those who have lived in Tibet and who have interacted with Tibetans on personal and human level.

The blogger seems to have only followed orders from his superior and did what he was told and taught at his military school. Which as we see is a misinformed history.

Yet not A SINGLE COUNTRY recoqnized Tibet as an independent country Maybe tibet is considered independent by Martian hehe