Dhussa, R. C. (2009). Tibet: A nation in exile. American Geographical Society's Focus on Geography, 52(2), 1-6.
• “…center of the displaced group is the Himalayan hill station of Dharamsala, India, where spiritual Tibet has arisen. In the Tibet within China, people are jailed for nationalist utterings, forbidden to display photos of the Dalai Lama, and face extinction of their culture” (p. 1).
• “Tibet suffered disastrously from the extremism of Chinese politics in the 1960s” (p. 3).
• “Against a backdrop of increasingly intensive controls over religious and cultural activities, accelerated state-led economic development, and large-scale compulsory resettlement of farmers and nomads…” (p. 3).
• “…assimilate the region.”
• “…most of the fruits of economic growth and modernization have gone to Han Chinese immigrants” (p. 4).
• “Most Chinese people know little about Tibet's own, and very different, interpretation of its history and regard Tibetans as having been granted special subsidies and benefits from the government to lift their economy. For many, protests from Tibetans appear to be ingratitude…” (p. 4).
• “..250,000 people have left Tibet since 1951.”
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