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China is slowly erasing Tibet's name (feddit.de)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5651275

Original link: https://www.newsweek.com/china-changing-tibet-english-name-1843391

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@zerfuffle the exiles seek the political goodwill of other nations, so presumably they also have a strong incentive to be intelligible to people in those nations. Would be interesting to know if they call it Bhota when they are in India.

When I am fundraising I use names people recognise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Absolutely, there's a good point.

Doesn't change the fact that ethnic Tibet and the TAR are not necessarily the same territorial entity. Tibetans make up a significant proportion of the population of Qinghai, for example.