Tibetan Children Forced into Colonial Boarding Schools

China is forcing three out of four Tibetan students into a vast network of colonial boarding schools, separating 800,000-900,000 children from their families and communities. The schools are a cornerstone of Xi Jinping’s campaign to eliminate Tibetan identity as a means to neutralize any resistance to Chinese rule. Read the groundbreaking report: tibetaction.ne...

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I wonder who is funding this organization.

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seriously, the narrative is misleading. I asked my Tibetan friends in Amdo and Kham about this and they said most people are doing it out of their own will because they are too poor to afford proper education. Its not like the parents are not allowed to send their kids to a normal school, its just that boarding schools are the cheapest, and its "forced" in the sense that everyone has to go to school in China, in the same way everyone has to go to school in the US. The lack of Tibetan education is a problem, but a lot of Tibetans nowadays want their kids to learn mandarin simply because that language gets you better jobs on the market. We need to start treating people as people with economic interests, and not as anthropological units where culture is viewed as more important than getting lifted out of poverty.