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 (DIR) Post #B6ChybZh6gED2gJRdQ by rms@mastodon.xyz
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       [1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/07/tibet-children-chinese-mandarin-school-preschool-language-culturehttps://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_July_2018_(Splitting_up_families)https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#14_June_2021_(Unmarked_burials_of_children)China is trying to eradicate Tibetan culture and language by teaching children to speak only Chinese. This reminds me of the residential schools that the US and Canada forced Amerindian
       
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       [2/2] children to live in during much of the 20th century - likewise designed to erase their cultures and languages. The US and Canada ceased that practice some decades ago; now China is taking it up.