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Originally Posted by noodle
What do you want me to dismiss exactly? I gurantee you that most of those people probably never stepped foot in Tibet before. It's a bunch of Free Tibet supporters. I can show you hundreds of "documentaries" just like that one from almost every nation in the world concerning as many issues as there are colours.
I'm not the type of person to get teary because of heart wrenching stories. I already know the world is screwed. If I took all the individual stories to heart, I'd get too depressed in life. And to be honest with you, there are more pressing matters in the world. Tibet can wait another century for all I care. Back in my country, I have family members that are dying because they don't have clean running water, that don't have a home to live in because it broke down in an earthquake 5 years ago and the government aint doing shit about it. Or maybe go down south a bit where millions of people have aids and are dying every second.
Psssh, heartwrenching stories. Heck, holywood has a bunch of those as well  It's pretty silly to even think someone can be heartless because he aint too fussed about a silly 10 min documentary! |
Um.. The documentary is not 10 minutes... It's 2 hours. (Unless I posted the link wrong... I'll check.) And I don't expect you to be teary eyed over the accounts... but I do expect some sort of empathy towards them even if it's merely a recognition that this is wrong.
Sure there are other sad stories that happen around the world... but does that make what the Chinese doing OK?
Most of the people interviewed are people who live in Tibet, Dharamsala (the place in India where the Tibetan government has set itself up in exile). The Western analysts they talk have also been to Tibet, so there goes your "Most of these people have never been into Tibet" idea.
The documentary does give the Chinese pespective some light and paints America in a very bad light too for abandoning the CIA funding of Tibetan resistance fighters so that it could use China to contain the Soviet Union so I wouldn't call it propaganda on the part of the West.