because it "happens all the time", that makes it ... right ? ...
you haven't answered me in that other thread yet ...
the australian goverment recently apologized to the aboroginal
people too ...
and to bring up Singapore is a stupid example ... maybe your
ancestors came here as invaders, but I'm quite sure mine came here
as peaceful peasant farmers under the british, before we coalesced
and emerged as a nation ...
and just because it used to be done in such a way, doesn't mean
it's morally acceptable now ... once upon a time, widows were burnt
together with their husbands at funerals .... once upon a time, it
was alright to sell opium to china .... of course, at that time,
china didn't have much of a say in it then .... does that makes it
right now ? ...
why don't I rephrase things for you ... what you're really
trying to say ... is that because it's china, and china is powerful
today, so basically no one can really say no ... and the tibetans
should just suck it up and become chinese, right ? ....
the Tibetens HAVE sucked it up and became chinese. Once more, I
need to repeat this. The invasion happened DECADES ago.
And invasion is an invasion. It matters not if there was
violence. An invasion by any other name is still an invasion. My
ancestors DID move here. Their presence DID have an adverse effect
in preserving the local culture. Yours probably did too, and if so,
it's high time you got off your high horse and admit it.
LOL at your example of burning widows. Good on you. You have
just raised an example of a culture that was merged with another to
create new ones. The reason we don't still have it is because the
traditions have interacted with others and merged.
We're Asian. Our culture is mostly biased towards males. It is
the influx of western culture post-feminism that affected our own,
forcing a merging of ideas that led to gender equality. Would you
like to revert back now? To save your dying culture?
Btw, the australians are apologising for GENOXIDE...you know,
the REAL THING. Not cultural genoxide, or whatever fancy name you
put on it. The australians delibrately went about trying to reduce
the native population. That's what they're apologising for.
Cultures dying or mutating has nothing to do with morals. It is
simply the winds of change. It is the natural order. It has no
right or wrong. When a nation loses a culture, it always gains a
new one. That's how it is. Like I've said many times...the
Tibetians alone would probably have experienced many cultures
throughout the ages that have risen and fallen to new ones. And
you're so excited about saving the current one. Do you not realise
it is itself responsible for destroying it's predecessor? Should we
revive THAT one instead? If we trace it back far enough, Tibetians
weren't even buddhists. Should we now proceed to destroy the
temples there for invading the tibet culture?
