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Great, yet another China bad article that paints what is probably a jobs and reeducation program to modernize Tibet as something much more sinister. Edit: Reed
by newen 6y ago
Great, yet another China bad article that paints what is probably a jobs and reeducation program to modernize Tibet as something much more sinister.
Edit: Reeducation might be something as normal as going from an agricultural society to a modern one. Reeducation sounds very sinister, I'm sure, but Tibet was a feudal society just 60 years ago.
Also "reeducation" is entirely my phrasing and has connotations different from say "job training" or "education", which I could have easily used.
You can make almost any government program sound super sinister, especially when there are translation complications thrown into the mix.
- bouncycastle 6y agoWhat is a "reeducation program"? What are they being "re-educated about"?
- floren 6y agoBeing alive, eventually.
- trasz 6y agoIt appears it’s mostly the language, interaction with various services and institutions, and skills necessary to get a job.
- bouncycastle 6y agoWhat language? If they have their own language, wouldn't there be plenty of jobs where they can just use their own language?
- stann 6y agoAre you pretending not to see how a language outside your tribe opens up more opportunities. The entire tribes of Africa and South America underwent the same massive foreign language reeducation now being demonized
- bouncycastle 6y agoNo, I just want to understand. What opportunities exactly?
- trasz 6y agoPlenty of nineteenth-century type jobs. Anything modern - anything that actually improves their standards of living - requires the ability to read and write Chinese.
- QuesnayJr 6y agoThe glories of Xi, presumably.
- FooBarBizBazz 6y agoThat their old culture, and its old power structures, are bad, and that the new culture, and the new power structures (with Han at the top) are good. New is good. Old is a bad look.
- tasuki 6y agoTbh the power structures in Tibet [0] weren't that great. [0]: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Tibet_(1912%E2%80%931951)#/Society_and_culture https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Tibet_(1912%E2%80%931951)#/Socie...
- bouncycastle 6y agoThis article is about the power structures in 1951. That's history, not current affairs.
- britch 6y agoI'm not certain I agree with OP, but you could call workplace diveristy seminars or code bootcamps reeducation programs. (Not that I think either of those are bad things) The words "reeducation program" don't frighten me on their own. I'd like to know more about it.
- bouncycastle 6y agoSo, in other words, it sounds like changing the culture?
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoPlease show me a "reeducation program" that was ever not a euphemism for something much more sinister.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y ago> A report released in January by the Tibetan arm of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a high-profile advisory body to the government, describes internal discussions on strategies to tackle the “mental poverty” of rural laborers, including sending teams of officials into villages to carry out education and “guide the masses to create a happy life with their hardworking hands.” I mean, we don't have to look elsewhere, direct quotes about this program sound super sinister
- trasz 6y agoLike in any country with a working social care system, which includes free skills training?
- Der_Einzige 6y agoI wonder what percentage of former HN posters are going to try to become card carrying political officers for the CCP in the future...