Tibetan Independence Movement
The Independence of Tibet is one of the hottest topics in the world today, undoubtedly due in part to the massive media exposure and attention given to the Dalai Lama and his movement in America. Recent Movies such as Kundun, The Wind Horse, and the extremely popular Seven Years in Tibet have had an astounding impact on the arousal of international awareness of Tibet's situation with China. This impact and the establishment of the Tibetan Independence Movement as a major issue on the international platform has lead to the argument by supporters of Chinese rule of Tibet that interventionists have based their arguments on 'history according to Hollywood'.Have these films swayed public opinion and perhaps even influenced America's foreign policy regarding China? My answer would be yes. But to argue that it is the basis and the only knowledge of the relationship between Tibet and China is a vain attempt by the Chinese to portray the stance of most of the free world as the work of capitalist propaganda. As an American, I find it insulting that Many of the Chinese-over-Tibet supporters look upon Americans as being so easily influenced by the media that we would use a Hollywo
4)http://mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/chintib.htm 5) Smith, Warren W. Jr., Tibetan Nation: A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations. 1996 Harper-Collins Press, Boulder, CO To sidetrack for a moment, the passive approach has proven throughout history to be a successful one (ex Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Desmond Tutu). Why does it seem to be such a long ordeal for the Tibetans? I think that India's biggest advantage was the media coverage they received during their protest of British rule. In Contrast, China closed Tibet's doors to the outside world until 1980, when China allowed tourism in putting Tibet in a time capsule for twenty years. While Tibet had developed a definite ethnic and cultural identity, China argues that Tibet's national identity was always as a part of China, even going as far as to use such ridiculous arguments as "In the 18th volume of The Encyclopedia Britannica for 1973 and 74, Webster's Atlas published in the United States in 1978, and The International Atlas published in the 1960's, maps are marked with China in larger letters, and Tibet in smaller letters....All these show that these publications recognize Tibet as part of China"(www.tibet-china.org, excerpt from China's Tibet, China International Press). 1) http://www.index-china.com (Chu, Bevin Tibetan Chinese Are not American Indians) 1) Burman, Bina R., Religion and Politics in Tibet
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