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

submitted 2 years ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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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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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 48 points 2 years ago (25 children)

Guess I must be the Tiananmen Guy, because I seem to bring all the Tankies to the yard.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (24 children)

Bringing up Tiananmen when there are documented instances (with actual evidence) of people getting run over by Israeli tanks and bulldozers in Gaza right now. Backed by the US government. With the US President actively spreading FUD about the scale and extent of atrocities. Nice.

Xizang is literally the phonetic transliteration for the region of the TAR. You're basically saying that we should keep the name Western colonialists gave a territory because Western brains would get hurt if the name changed.

[–] livus@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

the name Western colonialists gave a territory because Western brains would get hurt

This is one of those cases where we really need to know the wishes of the people in question before we make assumptions.

Case in point: Myanmar. "Burma" is the British colonial name, however it is preferred by some of the freedom fighters fighting the Tatmadaw because "Myanmar" is associated with the Junta's regime. And the real/pre-colonial name varies because the old name Myanma Pran is associated with a specific ethnic group, the Burmese.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Freedom fighters funded by the US, with an office in Washington? Odd how it's always Western-funded parties that want to maintain colonial names...

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