Bjork's Tibet Protest Offends The Chinese
Man, first it was Steven Spielberg over Darfur and now Bjork's going after the Chinese government over Tibet. It's hard out there for the largest holder of US debt. At least the Bush administration hasn't included them in the Axis of Evil. Of course, it would be hard to get another loan to finance another tax cut for the top 1% if you do that, isn't it?
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Björk is under attack after shouting "Tibet! Tibet!" at the end of her song Declare Independence at a concert in Shanghai.
Her remark was not reported in official media, but led to criticism when it began to circulate on the web. While China's 58-year occupation of Tibet remains controversial abroad, most Chinese see Tibet as a part of their country and regard calls for its independence as intrusive and divisive.
One fan said it was "disrespectful" and "very selfish" to raise the issue while visiting China.
The Icelandic singer first dedicated Declare Independence to Greenland and the Faroe Islands, which still have formal links to Denmark, and the song's video shows her in clothing bearing their flags. She dedicated the song to Kosovo while performing in Japan last month.
Its lyrics include: "Don't let them do that to you. Raise your flag!"
Matt Whitticase, spokesman for the London-based Free Tibet Movement, said it was delighted by her remarks, contrasting them with Gordon Brown and David Miliband's "shameful" decision not to raise the issue publicly on their recent visits to Beijing.
It should be noted that Tibet's most famous exile, the Dalai Lama, has said that he supports China's right to host the Olympics.
I can't believe I made in frist!!
What about the latest Bejing scandal with the authorities forcing all the people to surrender their cats for death?
Boycott the Bejing Olympics!
Wake up world!!!
Oh my God she offended the Overlords.
Who's a thunk it! She had the nerve to support that damn Dali Lama guy again!
Here's the link regarding all the cats in Bejing being rounded up for slaughter.
Just wait until this new goes round the world! Heartless morons.
God forbid anyone attending the games should sense a hint of the culture and the sway of "real" life in the area.
It reminds me of The Coliseum in Rome. It's filled with hundreds of feral cats! The authorities of Rome would never be so stupid as to round up all those cats and kill them! Heck, that's a big reason I would want to visit The Coliseum!
Forget the link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_ar...
Now that's what I call noise!
Wow, what a "protest". If she cared about Tibet why would she even perform in Shanghai in the first place? Unless she left the stage after that song and gave all the ticket sales to a Tibetan charity or something, I don't really see anything meaningful about her little laser-show protest.
good. I hope it offended the shit out of them.
The only way this could be offensive to them is if they know it's wrong.
Now is the time when your action is practice.
The Dalai Lama
(1935-, Tibet Religious Leader Resides In India)
Two Groups Worth Considering...
www.StudentsForAFreeTibet.org
www.FOFG.org
The Chinese government actually said that her words hurt the feelings of the Chinese people. Do you suppose the Tibetan people's feelings are hurt by the Chinese just a teeny bit more? I support the boycott of the Olympics, and the boycott of all Chinese goods.
Bush has made China our new owners.
Waits for the
Yellow PerilChina hating to get bad from people who were probably Maoists in the 1970s.....This just in:
Bjork's singing horrifies me.
China has been bullying small Himalayan kingdoms for ages now. First the attacked Tibet and enslaved the tibetans, then they attacked India and forcibly took over parts of Kashmir (so they could build a road to Pakistan to ferry opium in those days and subsequently missiles). Now china is bullying Bhutan and also laying claim to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. So basically any state bordering china is their territory.
You also have to understand that these kingdoms (including China and India) have been around for at least 7000 years if not more. There are some very old scores to settle.
And I havent even gone into all the fights China has (and has caused) in it's eastern border (N Korea, Japan) and southern border (Taiwan).
good for Bjork, and screw China. I shan't be supporting the Beijing Games.
danger @ 17:
I should correct myself: screw the Chinese government, not their people, who have been continually screwed off by Beijing.
yea, might be hard to get another loan to bust the economy by giving the tax cut to the top 1% so they can re-invest and expand in its businesses so they can hire more people and grow the economy. Of course they pay all the taxes anyway so screw them...
I'm boycotting the Olympics in 2008 as a protest against China's economic exploitation of the US.
Fuck China.
In fact, they were so mad at her pro-Tibet sentiment that someone put a 'Enslave Tibet' bumper sticker on the back of her ChangFeng Motor Hybird.
OK then, let's play U.S.A. good China bad.
Free Hawaii. Free Puerto Rico. Free Guam. Free American Samoa. Free Okinawa otherwise known as RAPELAND OF THE RISING SUN.
Two can play this game and the U.S.A. is odds on favorite to win the Subjugation Sweepstakes.
The Olympic Committee should be consistent with how they implement and execute their decisions on who gets the Olympics. If China is okay – should Zimbabwe get it next? It will be consistent with what they call “the Olympic” values. Or maybe we should have a closer look at their values – if we can find it. More on this in my blog at http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/and-the-olympics-goes-to-zi...
TheEnticer @ 16:
Bullying Tibet and India is old China. Small enslaved tibetans claim the state. You understand. 7000 scores havent been for enslaved tibetans. Opium is not some small claim. Old China has kingdoms. They took Kashmir and Bhutan. State old fights.
Oh no, the Chinese are upset at us!
What are they going to do, put MSG in our lunch?
PurplePatriot @ 15:
She's one of my faves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU3JrXt_cPk
Well, I'm not exactly sure why anyone feels compelled to inject themselves into contested regional political issues that do not involve clear criminality.
From what I know of both countries, neither is exactly a shining beacon of freedom and self-rule. In addition, there are plenty of Tibetans who support China's claim and role in the area, preferring it to the monastic rule alternative.
At least, this is what I've been able to glean from the little reading I've done on it.
Most of the agitating I've seen has come from Show Biz types who are dazzled by the exotic (to them) spirituality of Tibet, along with its ascetic beauty. They also know a "hip cause" when they see one. And of course, the old "China Hands" (or their heirs in the US Gov) don't mind whenever they can irritate the Asian Giant.
But bottom line for me is, let them settle it. And when you are a guest in another country, you don't go slamming their government unless it is doing something clearly criminal - like torturing people, or invading countries without provocation, or exploiting slave labor, and polluting the air without conscience.
Vaffen Culo @ 23 doesn't go far enough...
Free Catalunia, Euskadi, Galicia, Gibraltar, Palestine, the Flemish part of Belgium, Quebec, Cypress, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guantanamo Bay Cuba, St. Martin, Aruba, Curacao, and on and on and on.
Bjork is completely wrong on Kosovo, which represents outright theft of an historical part of Serbia in the name of ethnic Albanian ultra-nationalism that is going to engulf the entire region as they demand parts of their neighbors.
And agree with whoever pointed out the contradiction between Bjork's political "gesture" and her decision to peform in China at all (and no doubt pocket the her percentage of the gate).
Bjork = Groovy
Chinese Olympics = Lead Poisoning
The injustice of repressing the most spiritual, peaceful people in the world has gone on far too long. Free Tibet! It will be a pleasure to boycott the stupid Chinese Olympics. Everytime I see a Made In China label on something it makes me cringe. I do a lot of cringing these days.
Yeah, Dalai Lama, the former head of slaver masters turned CIA agent turned Non-violence activist turned ......
Give Tibet back to the monks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBWy-TS3v30
Bjork can sing!?
chris @ 19:
Does anyone else speak this language?
"Deighveh H Stern MD"
I've spent years studying the region and reading history books (not the revisionist ones that China has confected). The fact that you are even questioning the national claims of Tibetans (even implicitly) suggests that you have been exposed to some of this rewriting of history. By all means, reject the romanticization of Tibetan culture in the West. But the numbers don't lie. Over a million Tibetans have died under occupation (this from a population that has one of the lowest birth rates in the world). Dissent and cultural identity has been under attack for years (through a "reform" of the religion itself to reeduation in text books and insulting media propaganda), so your assumption that any Tibetans willingly welcome Chinese rule is rather absurd. Finally, in their constitution the Tibetan government in exile has rejected the older monastic rule for a modernized government via their contact with modernity. The old rule was actually progressive in some respects (in legislation and in its lack of a standing army the would have aided abuses in a feudal system), and, isolated as they were, did not lend itself to wide scale abuse as compared to European feudal states, but this is not the issue.
The political Tibetans in exile favor a modern socialist state with Tibetan autonomy. Given that China won't consider this, they have for the past 15 years been calling only for cultural autonomy, but China refuses to give it serious consideration, fearful of giving any real say to the ethnic minorities who populate the country.
Bjork seems to have done more than anybody else has done lately for Tibet, but that is not good enough for some of you cranks. Spielberg did not care about Tibet.
Oh, its OK 'cause you can say it is the same thing as Hawaii 100 years ago. So if it is, lets do nothing and watch the Olympics on our slave labor made 52 inch plasma wearing our nifty Nike sneakers. What can we do about Hawaii? Can’t we do a little more about what China is doing today?
When you support Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Apple, Nike, etc, --or the Olympics-- you are supporting what China has done in Tibet and Tinneman Square. China murdered many thousands in Tibet, destroyed thousands of temples and killed monks, resettled ethic Chinese to take over, and now you can be a guilty tourist and check it out for yourself and make lots of money for China. Students and supporters were crushed by tanks and thousands murdered in Tinneman Square just a few years ago. Nobody cares in 2008 about that—old news. Moreover, the US Government and all the corporations listed above let the murderous thugs who control China get away with it because they make money off this death and blood
Apparently, that is OK with some of you.
"It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
My own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it? What signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? If we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other. Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man."
The Crisis No. I
from all the evils China is involved in , people here a complaining about freakin' cats???
Apartment dwelling starbucks sipping laptop running PETA activists.
Protecting Tigers that is important, protecting the natural habitants for thousand of animals species, that is important.
But what is not important is domestic, stray cats, who cares. Protect Tigers, protect the Panda bear. But screw cats.
Support the WWF but DO NOT SUPPORT PETA. PETA is useless. Support real Wild Life preservation groups instead like the WWF.
There are so many more serious atrocities coming out of China than freakin' cats.
I will boycott the Beijing Olympic game (for Tibet) but not stupid cats
Fil @ 36:
LOL, sometimes I am amazed that people can use a computer without being electrocuted.
Please save the tigers (a cat), but "not the stupid cats." This would be the first person that I have seen who only favors supporting certain types of animals, not all.
Tom The Patriot @ 35:
More Tibet. Good cranks say "lets labor". Nike is Nike, Olympics are murdered thousands. Monks take tanks that control blood. OK. You hold evil blessing and suffer the dead children. Curse time and trouble. Business is death-line. Straight light could murder my absolute King. Common countryman, villain army. We can pardon them.
ashton @ 37:
oh smarytpants who fails in being funny.
You PETA types make an uproar about something as non-important as the overpopulated house CAT that is no better than rats, seagulls and cockroaches.
Tigers on the other hand have seen their habitat severly reduced, many poached for for and their testicles. China being highly responsible on their territory
Fil @ 39:
Laptop tigers for important domestic cats protect cats. Useless life-groups are serious. Sometimes people use electrocuted tigers, but the first funny uproar is tigers. Poached people who protect cats SUPPORT life.
SK @ 25:
Pray tell the difference between "Old" and "new".
I stand by my account of China's opium route. Please look at the map of Kashmir carefully and you shall see the route. Is it any secret where Pakistan got their nuclear material or that Mush was in China when Nawaz Sharif went nuclear officially?
Tibet was never part of china historically, neither was Nepal, Bhutan or for that matter Kashmir (the last one is the most laughable).
when i heard that story on npr, it made me cry.
it's a powerful song.
and she has courage.
SK @ 40:
Laptop tigers for important domestic cats protect cats. Useless life-groups are serious. Sometimes people use electrocuted tigers, but the first funny uproar is tigers. Poached people who protect cats SUPPORT life.
OMG, marry me :-D
TheEnticer @ 41:
The opium of Pakistan was mush. China went for laughable material. The “Old” “new” of Kashmir shall mush Sharif. The secret mush of Bhutan is laughable. Pray or part.
SK @ 44:
SK? That a new language you speaking, boo? I hereby declare l33t t3h 1nt3rw3bs language.
It's amazing to hear this jingoistic dribble coming in so hard on CL... overlords, fuck china, lead poisoning, red scare. there are definitely things about china to be critical about, but tibet is not really one of them. who has been funding the "separatists"? what if the CHinese started a worldwide campaign supporting the Lenolapole (sp?) or the recent nullification of treaties with native americans? this is one area where i just cring when J Stewart, Colbert, and yes Olberman ape the china fear racketeers.
SK @ 44:
Either you are pretending to be high OR you are a chinese 'blogger' who has nothing better to do with their time. Either way, learn some E N G L I S H... :)
TheEnticer @ 47:
You better learn. Some ‘blogger’ has to learn a better way. Nothing to learn to do nothing.
Going for entertainers should be important. Good people would be outspoken. Celeberties and Bjork complain that many important people should be good. Be good. They would be outspoken.
Chinese military kingdom for racist thugs buy olympic properties. Downloading courage for Tibet is intellectual. Bjork for Tibet. US sold security by poisoned China. Everything is occupied. Thugs don't buy properties. Old Tibet is free.
Transcendent concerts surprise America. Human stupidity should be free. I'm tender of brutish. China has fun clothes and amazing beings. The proud voice did part-concerts. The government has this amazing intolerance to transcendent surprise.
Perfromers can prevent Chienese Tibet.
Impossible silence over the sad Olympics is Tibetan pleasure.
No Freudian website asserts a country. The state was occupied. World-country is the truth. It's obvious that a satellite is beautiful. The "wording" or "truth" has the official Tibet. That country opposed the sovereign state. Tibet admits fact. Tibet is world-beautiful.
Touch Mao's disguise. World wages, incremental republics. Tibet is extreme. Train anyone that holy karaoke is socialist continuation. Disguise slavery. People feeding billions are wise. Keep preoccupations regarding Lhasa. The grateful society is holy. Gay malls need comment. Never compare yourself to anyone. Who is Chinese?
Business perfection & impossible prosperity is the point. Suppression has freedoms. We have sons who control Congress. Freedoms start baby sons. You, like China, lost business.
Fil @ 36:
aint you got a heart you fucking mook???????????????
tyree @ 50:
-What's a Mook?-
-Hey! What's a Mook?!-
"You can't call me a Mook!"
~I can't?! I'll give you a Mook!!!~
and that folks is my movie quote of the day
Good I hope she offended the PRC they are disgusting and make me sick.
She's either has guts or is very dumb but either way I support her.
China has been a bully the past few years and how they treat ethnic minorities is sicking at best.
Other infractions a complete refusal to curb pollution even when given free scrubbers by Japan and a refusal to crack down on the illegal animal parts trade or various human rights violations.
A couple years ago I watched "What Remains of Us" in the theatres.
You'll never see this movie in DVD at least not for decades because it interviews actual Tibetans in Tibet.
The filmmaker smuggled in a DVD player with a message of hope from the Dalai Lama.
If the Chinese government got a hold of the movie the people interviewed would be arrested or more.
It was shocking... and heartwrenching their plight.
The words "Free Tibet" have almost become a parody and yet we don't know what's going on there.
Tibet has been illegally occupied for decades and no one does a thing.
In fact, in maps today in schools it doesn't exist.
We've forgotten Tibet. It's no longer a country.
Do you know?
That the Tibetan people are foribidden to speak their language? To teach their children their culture? To even express their old traditions in their own way?
There are adults grown up in tibet who speak nothing but Chinese, their own grandparents do not understand them.
The Chinese are erasing the Tibetan people.
Out of every five Tibetans, 1 out of five have been killed out right, 1 out of five is missing, and 1 out of five is imprisoned in a Chinese prison.
And perhaps the most shocking... every day.
Every SINGLE day, there are one million chinese immigrants moving into Tibet.
EVERY FREAKING DAY.
The Tibetans are a minority in their own country.
So please stop diminishing this. This is the death of a culture. This is the erasing of a people. It's cultural and actual genocide, and we ignore it.
On our shame,
J
Bjork has a reputation for craving publicity, good, bad or indifferent.
Check out this video from 1996.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsyTyTiOMlo
She assaulted a British journalist who just said "Welcome to Bangkok".
Jack @ 53:
Oh, come on!!! That means the rest of China will have no one left in 4 and a half years!!!.
Paul Carr
It's so amusing to read all these China bashing comments. As if the USA doesn't have its own share of problems. Yeah, blame the rest of the world and forget your own problems. I write as a non-USA citizen.
I understand that Tibetans are, in fact, only the 9th largest minority in the People's Republic of China. Why should the Tibetans deserve special treatment and the 8 larger minorities don't? Because "America" says so? I understand that there are 4 times as many ethnic Tibetans living in neighbouring Qinghai province (about 4 million or so) than there is in Tibet province itself. (*)
Tibet is a part of China and always will be. Live with it. Hey, what about Puerto Rico? Is that always going to be part of "America" - by "America" I mean the U.S.A, but it's popular for your politicians from all over your political spectrum to refer to your own country as "America". Kinda like, China or India calling itself "Asia" Talk about an identity crisis. You, people of the USA, can't even name your country right.
(*) Unfortunately, there's the uncomfortable fact that there are a lot more Han Chinese leaving in Qinghai province
Jack @ 53:
So? We did it to the Native Americans, didn't we? Are you going to remember that? And Japan has its own human rights issues. It exterminated a native people there who have only barely survived. The world is cruel. I'd rather see us Americans deal with making amends to the Native Americans before having to deal with a cultural genocide. When the Native Americans can actually live on levels equivalent to African-Americans, much less whites (yes, it's that bad,) then I'll support an intervention in China.
Before you get out the love for Bjork, you have to understand how that remark probably resonated to her Chinese audience in Shanghai - as an attack against them. It's one thing for a group like the Dixie Chicks to diss on a specific person in their country for a specific policy in their country, it's another thing if a foreign group comes and diss on our country. Think if the Rolling Stones had a concert and ended it saying America sucks, give America back to the Indians? Or better yet, if the Rolling Stones came here on 9/12/01 and said "Afghanistan! Afghanistan!" Stay out of Afghanistan!
Right or wrong, the Chinese people see Tibet historically as part of their country separate from how they might feel about the Communist Party. The Chinese have huge pride in their Country. And you know what? That's a normal thing. I have huge pride in the US, separate from George Bush and his policies. In fact, if I didn't care about my country, I wouldn't care that Bush and the GOP want to drive it to oblivion.
Also, where's the dialogue? Bjork just yells out Tibet! Tibet! Where does she frame it for her audience? It's kind of like, hey I just performed to you, now I'm going to insult you. There's no reaching out to a supportive and receptive audience in a way that might get them to think about the issue.
This is the kind of move that will back fire on her and on Tibet. And why did she dedicate this song to areas outside of her host country, like in Japan, but used it to attack the Chinese audience, unless she didn't get it.
The biggest problem with the Free Tibet movement is that they use "Buddhism" for moral authority, yet their strategy of trying to get the world to hate the Chinese violates a core tenet of Buddhism (because hate hurts the hater more than the object of the hate).
I've lost huge respect for her.
Free the Lakotah Sioux Nation from the tyranny of the US Interior Department!
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/1220-02.htm
Here's more about Tibet.
I don't understand why outrage is not outrage.
I can one one hand feel outrage for the displayed native Americans in America, just as easily as I can feel the same outrage for Tibet.
Is there some reason that Bjork shouldn't have mentioned this atrocity?
As thinking, reasonable people, isn't injustice, injustice? Where ever it is?
Don't we have a responsibility to stand up against it?
J
Jack @ 60:
I agree. We should stand up to injustice. We should speak up about it. But ignorance, wilful or otherwise, of the facts of history is a form of injustice. The United States of America should recognise its maltreatment of American indians. Maltreatment did I say? Hey, Genocide of the American Indians over a period of 4 centuries. Isn't there a 1949 UN convention against genocide that even the USA belatedly signed up to in 1988? George W Bush should follow the example of Paul Rudd in Australia and recognise the appalling treatment that was meted out to the native inhabitants of the land that you and they came to occupy. In order to start a process of healing, the bald facts of history must first be recognised. Should you view the USA as a country built upon conquest (where the Indians are an insignificant and defeated and vanquished other - rather like the Afghanis and Iraqis today) or should you be humble and recognise that your history is no greater than other nations and certainly no greater than that of the American Indians whose land you stole.
Returning to Tibet. I've been reading Crooks and Liars for some time now and I notice that many of the commentators, I mean the initial blog posters, frown upon what they call "framing the debate". Brit Hume's attempt to paint that Floridian lady into a corner being one example. Of course, that is framing and should be called out as such.
I'll call out another. This Guardian article that Nicole Belle cites. Especially the part that goes, "While China’s 58-year occupation of Tibet remains controversial abroad....." sounds like framing to me. You might as well write that Beijing is the Great Satan. Interesting that Nicole Belle references a foreign publication.
Paul Carr
I'm a Canadian... not an American. That being said, I'm aware of a history of subjugation of humanity from the ages. Look at England alone. From the peoples who built Stonehenge to the Celts to the Saxons, Anglos and Jutes, to the Normands from France and onwards.
We're a conquering species.
Do we ignore the errors of the past. No. We try to correct them.
I'm fully aware of the Residential Schools, President Grant and his Indian Wars and the attempts to destroy First Nations here in Canada and the US for generations.
That's not what this post is about.
It's about the genocide that's happening in Tibet.
Talking about First Nations will not help the Tibetan people. It's a separate but important argument.
It's a little like trying to argue gay rights are more pressing an issue than black oppression in America.
What a terrible focus.
We should be focusing on removing both those problems.
And its a little hard, right now, for me to consider that America and Canada's approach is that equally of the Chinese... that being that currently.. in this day and age there ARE no cultural imperatives to protect either the people or the culture of the Tibets.
You don't see... for example:
1. The American government encouraging people to move into Reservations to out crowd native peoples.
http://www.tibet.com/WhitePaper/white8.html
2. Native language and customs out lawed.
http://www.savetibet.org/tibet/history/glance.php
These are all things happening today. Not four hundred years ago. Right. Now.
And they deserve our attention.
Jack @ 62:
I don't agree with you. Canada is a part of America. America is a continent or, rather, two continents, North America and South America. The United States of America is a part of America. So is Canada. So is Mexico. So is Brazil et cetera. Admittedly, "The United States of America" is a silly name. It's kinda like a political geography lesson for slow learners. But, nevertheless, that is the official name of the country. Also, to call the United States of America just the United States creates ambiguity. Since the official name of Mexico is the United States of Mexico. So, between "America", "The United States" and "The United States of America", the "United States of America" is the best of a bad lot. At least, the name is accurate. (*)
My Goodness, what arrogance!!!.
More Arrogance!! In light of the previous sentence.
Give evidence of that.
The Government of the United States of America, instead of preaching to other countries how they should run their affairs, should *focus* on their own problems at home. Little things like the abandonment of Habeas Corpus and all that, you know.
Gay rights and black oppression in the USA are both domestic issues. Tibet, from a USA standpoint, is a foreign policy issue. The World is not the USA's backyard where it can do what it pleases. Dealing with the facts of USA history is a domestic issue within the gift of the government of the United States of America to deal with now. Like Kevin Rudd in Australia (I got his name right this time. ;-)), the government of the United States should recognise its own genocide in the past and leading up to the present of the American Indians. A process of reconciliation can not begin until it does.
I'm in China now and I can't access either of these websites.
The Government of the United States of America is blind to some of the facts of its own history including the genocide of American Indians.. That's an issue that needs to be dealt with NOW....
It's just a convenient diversion tactic by the Government of the United States of America to distract the people of that country from focusing on their own domestic problems such as illegal wire-tapping, the suspension of habeas corpus et cetera.
(*) Got this from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_(word)
The Diccionario de la Lengua Española (Dictionary of the Spanish Language) published by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), defines estadounidense (United Stater) as "someone or something from or relating to the United States".
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In Spanish, estadounidense, estado-unidense or estadunidense are preferred to americano for U.S. nationals; the latter tends to refer to any resident of the Americas and not necessarily from the United States.
(**) One more thing, USA intervention in Tibet AGAIN won't help the Tibetan people either. The CIA did that in the 1950s and that was one reason why the Chinese Government ended Tibetan autonomy in 1959.
Kudos to brave Bjork! Crusader of voiceless! "Declare Independence"! Tibet was independent nation and communist China will be forced to honor the will of six million Tibetans. We challenge the freedom and peace loving artists, athletes,students, scholars,tourists, officials etc. to raise the human rights and religious violations by the Communist China during their visit!
JFK said" YOU CAN DO BUSINESS WITH ANY ONE, BUT YOU CAN PLAY ONLY WITH GENTLEMAN". Is Communist China worth to host the world's greatest game?? Chinese athletes are machines..if they fail they will be tortured..they must win and in 2008 prove Hun race's superiority comparable to 1936 Berlin Olympics!! World must stop this madness for the glory of Sport and dignity of humanity. INDEPENDENCE FOR TIBET!
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