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Originally Posted by Lammarite  You have to wonder what you would do if you were rushed by an unwashed hippy protesting about somewhere he has never been and never will. I reckon it be giving boots to the nuts too and wouldn't really care if I was seen as a thug or not. |
i totallly agree, especially now that the torch is in SF - hippy capital of the world... honestly, those here in the west who are supposedly so concerned about tibet, most of them can't even point it out on a map. the only thing they know comes from the Dalai Lama's appearance on talkshows and his best-selling faux-zen self help books at barnes and noble... the guy's a hack who basically left his people behind and instead enjoyed his own celebrity status by exoticizing buddhism in the west. he's not a wolf in monk's clothing (like the chinese govt claims) he's just a coward and not a real leader - still not sure where he is right now while this whole thing is unfolding.
i'm not justifying what china is doing in term of violent crackdowns, but from what i've seen in the papers, lots of these tibetian protesters aren't even asian! they have ZERO vested interest in tibet and the region. this makes me wonder, if Tibet actually succeeded in breaking away from China (unlikely i'm sure) and lost all financial investment / support from the chinese govt, would the west really do anything to contribute to the build up the region? or would tibet simply be another 'feather in their cap' and then move on to the next 'trendy cause'/...? unfortunately the west is great at turning on the "we're here to save the day!" propaganda machine and cause a huge racket but usually with very little real action / follow through... and the people who suffers are the locals who thought they actually mattered...
