Our Cultures

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About Our Cultures

This group is a tribute to the cultures of the world, the people who live there and make them, and to the heritage of others who keep them alive in countries away from their own.

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Where Is the Public's Eye?

TIBET

With the Olympics starting in just a few months China has really begun to clamp down. Wanting to secure Tibet, they almost forced the hand of the protesting Tibetan’s by dressing up as monks to install protest so that they could deal with the brewing situation.

Other countries are really waking up and taking a look at the fate of the Tibetans and are responding. The Olympic torch, after a failed attempt by pro-Tibetan protesters to extinguish it in London, has been been extinguished twice in France.

French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is considering boycotting the Olympics, and Hillary Clinton is pushing for US president Bush to do the same. British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, talked with Dalai Lama after shaming the public eye by staying silent about the events going on, though he says now that he will be attending the Olympics and won’t be supporting the protestors. While Dalai Lama himself says that he wants to see a boycott of the Olympics.

Tibet’s past has been riddled with foreign occupation from China, Britain and Mongolia.
After the Invasion of Tibet by the Chinese from 1950-1951 when the People’s Liberation Army crushed the resistance from the ill-equipped Tibetan army China asserted its claim of the people with the Seventeen Point Agreement which affirmed China’s sovereignty over Tibet.

The issue if or not China will give more freedom to Tibet remains against their favor. Though some say that if China does nothing the boycotts will be against their economies lucrative favor and could hurt them economically.