A new report by Human Rights Watch argues that the compulsory use of Chinese as the primary language in schools in Tibet raises “serious concerns under international human rights law”.

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        10 hours ago

        I’m not defending China’s treatment of Tibetans in general, but a uniform language of instruction is a nothingburger. Not a nothingburger I’m happy about to be clear, but still a nothingburger. Otherwise at least half the world would be engaging in cultural genocide

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          Otherwise at least half the world would be engaging in cultural genocide

          Yes. This is why both nobody cares and it’s a huge deal. We’ve done this to each other for thousands of years. The definition of genocide is the destruction of a culture, it doesn’t have to be killing. It can be this.