Mythmakers of the Media (Very good article from an Italian Prof)
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[b]Mythmakers of the media[/b]
By Irene Affede Di Paola (China Daily) Updated: 2008-05-28 07:47
(The author is a professor at the University of Insubria in Italy. [b]The article first appeared in the Global Times[/b])
While some Americans support the rioters for "Tibet independence", theyforget what their ancestors did to local Indians.Their Europeanforefathers migrating to the New World not only massacred the Indiansbut also devastated their culture.
It's really a pity that the notions of "good Westerners" and"other badpeople" which should have only appeared in Hollywood films exist in thereal world. s
To my knowledge, the United States hasn't done any better than anyother country on human rights. Following the slaughter of localaboriginals by the early Americans, some other minorities including theblack people, Italians,Spaniards, especially the colored people, havebeen discriminated against in the US society as well.
Please don't forget how many Vietnamese were killed by the US army inthe war in the 1960s and how many democratic Latin American governmentswere toppled by US plots.
Newly released figures show that the Iraq War claimed more than700,000Iraqi civilian lives, and that more than 2.7 million Iraqirefugees have fled into Syria, Jordan, Lebanon,Egypt and othercountries. Who will compensate for the sufferings of the Iraqi victimsand refugees?
It is doubtful if some Westerners truly care about the Chinese people'shuman rights, while they turn a blind eye to what the US is doing tothe Iraqi people. It is also absurd of them to point a finger atChina's domestic affairs.
It is widely known that lobbying groups and the super corporationsbehind them exert great influence on the US government'sdecision-making.
About 18 years ago, the American linguist Avram Noam Chomsky said the US was a society in which the poor paid for the rich.
What I want to stress further is that, the poor are misguided as ifthey can get rich by exploiting those even poorer. This trick is apopular"market law" in the US society.
In fear of a rapidly developing China,some Westerners want to raise the Tibet issue on the pretext of human rights.
Generally speaking, those Westerners don't really care about Tibet andits people's human rights. In fact, it has nothing to do with humanrights; it is nothing but a conspiracy to split another country and tocontain a potential competitor.
Created by the Western media, the Tibet myth thus became an ideal instrument to try and achieve that aim.
Those Westerners accuse China on the issue of Tibet so as to shiftpublic attention away from their atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan.They criticize China on "human rights violations", while spreading"democratic"torture and cruelty around the world.
They appear to be lovers of peace only because they have learned todivert violence into other places. The West has used violence so manytimes in the past 500 years that their purpose seems to have beenachieved.
The recent propaganda by the Western media and its censure of China andthe Chinese people is intolerable. We have experienced the Cold War erawhen extreme actions were taken. We also understand the potentialconsequences of the Western media's irrational attitude toward China.
As some NATO generals have said, "As Westerners, we cannot afford tosupport absurd things like this because, as it happened in Kosovo, itmight cause more tensions and even bring disaster to ourselves."
I do not understand why some Westerners are bent on making Tibet an"independent and free country".
Try imagining an independent Tibet located on the world's roof andisolated from the global economy and you wonder what the future ofTibet would be like.
Those Westerners want to keep Tibet from developing. They insist thatTibet should be kept independent and isolated and its people should goon with their daily life as herdsmen or farmers.
So when those Westerners go there on vacation, they can enjoy thebeautiful scenery and the primitive life of their imagination of amystical Oriental place.
Matteo Ricci, one of the pioneers of East-West exchanges, came to Chinaduring the Wanli Reign of the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). On ethnicdiversity, he said, "Observe all and obtain its advantages."
Paul the Apostle, the forerunner of Christianity, echoed him by calling on everyone to "respect non-Christian people."
Any problem can be solved if we bear their words in mind.
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[url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2008-05/28/content_6717066.htm]I do not understand why some Westerners are bent on making Tibet an"independent and free country".
Try imagining an independent Tibet located on the world's roofandisolated from the global economy and you wonder what the futureofTibet would be like.
Those Westerners want to keep Tibet from developing. They insistthatTibet should be kept independent and isolated and its people shouldgoon with their daily life as herdsmen or farmers.
So when those Westerners go there on vacation, they can enjoythebeautiful scenery and the primitive life of their imagination ofamystical Oriental place.[/url] [/quote]
It's a very good article, but in the quoted part, I think the author is being a little naive.
The Western dupes of the "Free Tibet" movement may have this vision, but the Western power elite is just using the goal of a "free and independent Tibet" as a pretext to balkanize China at the very least and bring it under Western influence. The worst case scenario is that the foreign powers would install military bases there and indefinitely occupy it like South Korea or Afghanistan, and tighten the military encirclement of China which is already underway.
The good news is that this vision of some power-drunk generals and politicians is as far from becoming reality as the 'return to Shangri-la' which the professor speaks of.
Monks and Tibetan people
There are less than 50,000 monks in Tibet, and about 2.6 million tibetans from Tibet.Most complains reported by West media were by monks, not oridinary tibetans. This clearly proved that the "human right" issue by west media is not an issue of "human right" or "freedom of religions", those human rigth fighters are separatists.
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