I can see a great debate here on the Tibet matter, and the Europeans and Americans (who were Europeans in fact). People are people. We, humans, did very horrific things to ourselves in the name of religion, for money and power. Objectivity is a nice concept, but perhaps it does not exist in practice. It seems that outside China the world sees the issue of Tibet differently, and this is why the Han rhetoric is received with skepticism. Given the different levels of freedom of speech in China, it is believed that there is insufficient debate about Tibet taking place in China. For in 822 there was a peace treaty with China recognising the borders of Tibet as a sovereign country... Surely then came the Mongols, Qing, Gurkhas, British. All treated Tibet as a subject and not a province of same nation. It would be interesting if you could (calmly ;)) let us know what were the reasons in 1950 of invading Tibet by the PRC from your perspective. In 1000 characters?
Posted: 2008-11-19 12:19 AM
it is late and I am tired but I want to send you a little message that I just added something to your comment about Frenchfrog's report. Tell me, do you feel not accepted as a Chinese person on Globo or in your life here in Europe in any way? Maybe I am wrong but when I am reading your general judgements about European people in your texts - decadent Italians (your Prima Porta report), nationalistic Spaniards (Jorge in "Greatest adventurers"), ??? however French with a 'great' president (comment to Isabelle's report) I don't feel very well with your words. Are they motivated by a huge Chinese sense of honour? I think on Globo we have so many chances to get to know us and our cultures better and we should take these chances with open hearts and minds beyond all nationalities. I hope so much you can understand what I am trying to tell you - I know my English is very poor...
Best regards - Petra
