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Wow, I think I'm going to disengage this conversation now. Václav Havel died last week. I was afraid of slow disappearance of the values he defended, but I see
by kachnuv_ocasek 15y ago
Wow, I think I'm going to disengage this conversation now. Václav Havel died last week. I was afraid of slow disappearance of the values he defended, but I see the Western pleb has very twisted values already.
- verroq 15y agoI'm not saying what China is currently doing in XingJiang is right, but to deny that overthrowing Dalai Lama resulted in a better standard of life for Tibet's inhabitants is lunacy.
- 4ad 15y agoSure, arbitrary persecution of various ethnic groups is a good standard of life.
- est 15y agoUnlike Tibet, there are not only ethnic groups in Xinjiang, but also terrorist groups as dangerous as Al-Qaeda, e.g. East Turkestan group. They are directly linked with each other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Turkestan_Islamic_Movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Turkestan_Islamic_Movement
- cperciva 15y agoTrying to improve someone's standard of living by force is almost inevitably doomed to fail. Canada tried that with its native population in the 20th century -- take children away from their backwards and uncivilized parents and raise them instead in residential schools -- and it was an utter disaster.
- drx 15y agoIf anyone is as curious as I am: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sch...
- est 15y agoDo you know anything about Tibet? Or dGe Lugs Pa? Or anything at all? Old Tibetan system is exactly how force kids turning into monks and abey the teachings of Dalai Lama (note: not only the 14th). What the Communist did wrong in Tibet, is not about exile Dalai Lama, but replacing the old ruling ranks without providing more options. So if anything thing went wrong, blame the Communists.