From the arrival to power of Xi Jinping en China, In the year 2012, The ethnic minorities of the country have suffered a great persecution. Human rights organizations have reported the authorities' efforts to Delete your traditions and re -educate them in the Han culture, The majority of the country.
It has happened with the Uigures, It has happened with the Mongols and Also with Tibetans. Precisely, of the latter, United Nations Alert that there is a process of cultural assimilation that threatens to disappear forever The unique life of Tibet. Children are the objective.
For centuries, Tibetans have prospered some 4.000 meters high, enhance Your language, Religion and customs, In a matriarchal society, very different from China. But the last decade of government from Beijing seriously threatens its existence over time.
One million Tibetan children have been separated from their families and transferred to Chinese state internships. Behind this decision, It is absorbing them “cultural, religious and linguistically”. And the truth is that is giving result.
China is transferring minors living in rural communities to these types of internships in which classes are taught only in Mandarin Chinese. References to history and tibetan traditions are minimal and, of course, Nothing of Dalái Lama is said, The exiled spiritual leader in 1959.
What happens is that all those children They lose contact with everything what has to do with the Tibet and even have trouble communicate with your parents In just two weeks that have a maximum of a year to return home. Through this process, China will guarantee greater detachment of new generations with Tibetan traditions.
The data are, in this case, quite revealing. Just one 20% of all Chinese children are in internships, While in the case of Tibetan children They are a great majority, After the systematic closure of rural schools. A very effective method, whose success will be appreciated as the years go by.
Classes are only in Mandarin Chinese.
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“The residential school system for Tibetan children seems to act as a large -scale mandatory program for assimilate Tibetans to the majority culture he, Against International Human Rights Standards”, have alerted from the United Nations.
Change in Tibetan Life
And is that China is modifying Tibet's day to an important way in the last decade, putting to the Communist Party in all spheres of public and private life. This assimilation campaign has caused Tibetans. Monks and faithful suffer great restrictions to profess their religion.
There is no clearer example of how China has started a crusade against everything that has to do with the Tibetan culture than the one who lived in 2018 An activist. Simply, organized Tibetan classes, But he was sentenced by the authorities to prison for inciting separatism.
They have been decades and decades of Tibetans defending their own identity, But that is about to get to an end. The Progressive loss of your tongue, Religion and culture It is unstoppable and now the campaign of schools with children threatens to convert Tibetans into the last generation that can receive that name.
