| It's not just Paris. Yesterday an American college professor sent two links about the history of Tibet and the riots in Tibet to a Chinese student organization. The Students for a Free Tibet were outraged that a professors dared to show the other side, sent outraged emails to the college president and other faculty, while the students from China have been sending emails of support saying that for years they have felt oppressed by the one sided proTibet Independence antiChina stories all over the US. Very few Americans know anything about Tibet and China, only the stories from the Tibetans living in India and Nepal. I think the outrage comes from an idealized view of Tibet before 1950, a desire of some people to champion the "poor defenseless innocent pure harmless etc." victims and feel very good about themselves as a result. So when it turns out that some of those "victims" are murderers and the past is not so idealized, the supporters feel threatened, as if their own morality was being questioned. At least that's what's happening in some colleges in the US. The good part is that the student from China are beginning to see that not everyone in the US thinks China is evil toward Tibet, and that they can speak out. So perhaps the videos and reports of the riots will have a good result, although at a terrible cost. |
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