Old Tibet
May 27
2011
2011
Westerners criticize China for Tibet, but acts not the same thing done 500 years ago by the Europeans?
the people make Indian lands (the 3 Americas: North, South and Central)? Slaughter of local indigenous (I remember when the Spanish arrived here English and French, This land was not uninhabited), suppression of indigenous culture and language, etc. There is an old saying: "Who live in glass houses should not throw the first stone. "
You're right, but as a society we like to think we have progressed morally ago just over 500 years.
Old Tibet was not a Shangri-la 1/3
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