Tibetan sources who spoke to Radio Free Asia linked the closures to the Chinese
government’s education policies and its promotion of the Ethnic Unity and
Progress Law, which took effect on July 1, 2026. They said the shutdowns could
further limit opportunities for Tibetan children to learn their mother tongue
and cultural traditions.
What frustrates me is that anything that would genuinely qualify as a “cultural genocide” by any meaningful measure would just be a genocide - they only pull out the qualifier “cultural” when they know it isn’t, so the term becomes self contradictory - they only call it a cultural genocide when it isn’t a cultural genocide.
What frustrates me is that anything that would genuinely qualify as a “cultural genocide” by any meaningful measure would just be a genocide - they only pull out the qualifier “cultural” when they know it isn’t, so the term becomes self contradictory - they only call it a cultural genocide when it isn’t a cultural genocide.
Like what percemt of indigenous Americans speak their native language?