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Tibetans Fight to Salvage Fading Culture in China

Tibetans Fight to Salvage Fading Culture in China | Human Interest | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - January 9, 2016 11:57 PM

"When officials forced an informal school run by monks near here to stop offering language classes for laypeople, Tashi Wangchuk looked for a place where his two teenage nieces could continue studying Tibetan.  To his surprise, he could not find one, even though nearly everyone living in this market town on the Tibetan plateau here is Tibetan. Officials had also ordered other monasteries and a private school in the area not to teach the language to laypeople. And public schools had dropped true bilingual education in Chinese and Tibetan, teaching Tibetan only in a single class, like a foreign language, if they taught it at all."

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Jerry Li's curator insight, March 20, 2016 9:23 AM

 Yes, Tibatan will be very upset.

I think we should preserve every culture, not only chinese culture.

Tibetan is their mother tongue.  As every culture has its own special characteristic.

"And public schools had dropped true bilingual education in Chinese and Tibetan" this quote shows Tibetan cannot learn both language.

  The officials cannot forced them to learn chinese, and should give Tibetan a bilingual education just like Singapore.

This will result that Tibatan's children do not know their mother tongue and lost that culture gradually.

Although this can assimilate Tibetan to become Chinese in future but I think the offcials can give TIbetan some choices to choose.
othni lindor's curator insight, October 20, 2018 3:50 AM
This article talks about Tibetan culture fading in China. The language has been removed from schools and are only taught as a foreign language if they are even taught at all. China has reduced and restricted the teaching of languages spoken by other ethnic groups in many regions more recently. In 2012, officials created a new teaching curriculum that removed Tibetan as a language. Schools were forced to use Chinese as the main language.  
Kelvis Hernandez's curator insight, December 14, 2018 3:43 PM
The people of Tibet are watching their culture fade away and have no power to stop it. The Chinese officials that run the province have been restricting the teaching of the language and culture in Tibet and other western provinces of China. This is part of a massive plan to force the assimilation of the Tibetan and Uyger peoples to East China's Han Chinese norms. While some welcome the change thinking it will bring their children into the competitive economy, others have begun protesting the suppression. China has begun demonizing western forces and the Dalai Lama for tricking the protestors into defying the law and government.  As even monasteries are begin banned from teaching courses it will be a long battle for Tibetans who are fighting for their cultural freedom. 
 
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Changes in Three Gorges Dam

From www.youtube.com - October 25, 2015 11:24 AM
NASA's animation of China's Three Gorges Dam construction over the years.

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Benjamin Jackson's curator insight, November 9, 2015 5:40 PM

The impact of the Three Gorges Dam on the residents upstream is amazing. I cannot imagine anything like this happening in the US, mostly because of the impact on the people both upstream and downstream. Ecological damage from this dam may not phase the Chinese government, but I think any North American or European government would shudder at the thought of the backlash among their citizens this would create.
Matt Ramsdell's curator insight, December 14, 2015 9:27 PM

Three Gorges damn in China is the largest dam ever constructed. This was created to save on power by creating hydroelectric power for the people of the land. One of the issues with this was the the flooding of the land up streams displacing millions of people. It created a larger up stream area and very small down stream. A lot of the people that lived up stream had to be relocated further inland and faced changing climatif weather. The banks of the river are carved out between what seems like mountainous regions so as you move more uphill the weather and temperature will be a whole new category of life (Depending on how far you relocated).
Stevie-Rae Wood's curator insight, December 9, 2018 6:09 PM
From the animation that NASA has created of the construction of the Three Gorges Dam it is apparent that land has been lost. The Three Gorges Dam was created to generate more energy for Chinas growing economy. It is known as the largest hydroelectric project ever costing around 40 billion dollars and requiring 20,000 workers. There is a good and bad side to the creation of this dam. It has helped Chinas economy grow however to the expense of the people that were displaced because the dam took away land as we can see In the animation. It also effected people downstream negatively as we can see as well because there water supply was depleted. Like most things that take place today the people that benefit from something usually live far away from the problem while those that live closest pay the more costly price.
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