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**PaPaPeng**

On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:28:30 -0700, (JJS)
wrote:

I know is looks like the Chinese have adopted the "white man's burden".
You know bringing civilization to the less fortunate whether they
want it or not e.g. Tibet.

Joe

On the contrary. Tibet is being developed for China's benefit as
Tibet's resources and vast space is needed. Development will not wait
for Tibetans slow to get into the game. Tibetans are in the best
position to benefit from this investment as the rules are already in
place to let them have first pick. But the Tibetans must also have
the attitude, aptitude and the ability to take advantage of these
opportunities. To quit with barely a grade 6 education with no
(Chinese majority or foreign) language skills dooms one to making a
living off equally disadvantaged fellow Tibetans. (Being a monk
inures one to life's hardships but is quite useless for making a
living.) Your Afro-American experience is an excellent parallel.
Providing barely earned advantages to all 2.5 million Tibetans in a
population of 1.3 billion Chinese is no problem at all. But these
advantages must still be earned regardless of at how low a level.