I seriously dispute that, especially if it was just due to demographic reason (aka, no discrimination against an ethnic group, no one being killed). Hell, people don't even call it genocide in Tibet, where you have clear discriminationa gainst Tibetans.
1999, A Less Tibetan Tibet Many Residents Fear Chinese Migration Will Dilute Culture
"LHASA, China—Among the pilgrims at the gates of the Jokhang temple, the holiest Buddhist site in the capital of Tibet, a Chinese migrant and avowed atheist named Xie Danchun was doing a brisk business. He sells white Tibetan prayer scarves, known as hada," symbols of a culture struggling under periodic assault from authorities in Beijing.
"It's a job," mused Xie, a 24-year-old from Sichuan province, as pilgrims prostrated themselves in the swirling incense smoke outside the 1,300-year-old shrine. "Besides, the silk factory is in my county back home. We run it up here on my county's trucks."
On any given day, an estimated 100 million people are on the move across China looking for work. But perhaps nowhere is China's vast internal migration having a more profound effect on the local population than in Tibet. The arrival here of tens of thousands of job seekers from China's ethnic Han majority, while a minor runoff in a country of 1.3 billion people, is threatening to swamp the culture of 5 million Tibetans.
"I'm not replacing a Tibetan," argued Xie, who came here in pursuit of a fortune two years ago after China relaxed restrictions on travel. Pointing to a teenage Tibetan competitor who was selling scarves of lower quality at the same price, he said, "We're just beating them at their own game."
The fate of Tibetan culture has taken on a new urgency in recent months since the World Bank approved a $160 million loan, over U.S. and German objections, that included millions to help move 58,000 people, including some Han Chinese, onto land claimed as traditionally Tibetan."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-10/31/041r-103199-idx.html"Chinese strategists argue that the government naturally wants to fill such areas with Han Chinese presumably loyal to Beijing. One senior Chinese analyst compared China's move to resettle Han Chinese in Tibet and Xinjiang to population changes in Alaska. In the 1940s, he noted, native Alaskans made up more than half the population in what would become the state with the largest area. Today, they constitute about 15 percent. "So are we both guilty of cultural genocide?" he asked."
He's right u no
2017, China unrelenting in cultural genocide in Tibet, alleges exile administration
(TibetanReview.net, Oct17, 2017) – Acts of genocide have been and are still being committed by Chinese in Tibet, the President of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at Dharamshala, India, has alleged in New Delhi on Oct 16 while releasing a report by the Tibet Policy Institute, the CTA’s think tank.
The report, Cultural Genocide in Tibet, is cited as saying China is carrying out systematic annihilation of the cultural heritage of Tibet with the destruction of Tibetan Buddhism and religious traditions, education system, social breakdowns, lawlessness, communal disharmony, uncontrolled greed and a high growth in sex trade and alcoholism.
Releasing the report at the India International centre, Dr Sangay has continued that the Chinese were carrying out destruction of the Tibetan people’s religion and language and also carrying out forced removal of Tibetan nomads while continuing to transfer mainland Chinese people to the Tibetan Plateau.
“The influx of Chinese migrant workers, facilitated by the new railway line and an administration in favour of the migrants, are reducing the Tibetans to an increasingly disenfranchised minority in their own land,” thehindubusinessline.com Oct 16 quoted him as saying.
http://www.tibetanreview.net/china-unrelenting-in-cultural-genocide-in-tibet-alleges-exile-administration/Really gets my noggin joggin
Meh. I just picture a German seeing one too many Doner kebab stands and screaming that they're being genocided.
Delicious, juicy genocide.
And as smjjames said, there's a lot of whitey angst over here about the "browning" of America.
I'm sure the Celts said the same thing about the Romans. Then the Romano-Celts said the same thing about these fucking Saxons. And then the Saxons said it about the Normans. And now their 25xgreat-grand kids are saying it about people from, y'know, all those places they conquered.
Cultures change. It's what they do.
If your effort was to argue that people should be calm about their replacement you probably shouldn't use historical examples of invasion which ended poorly for the original inhabitants. In short cultures change, they don't voluntarily replace themselves, the mass movement of millions of people is really quite an intriguing phenomena for the scale is hitherto unknown to posterity. Even the Anglo-Saxon invasion 1,300 years ago was in much less relative numbers that the scale today, likewise the Normans showed up with several thousand men amidst a population of 2 million. It has never been the case, nor had it ever been thinkable, that the capital of the UK would be minority British, but that is the case today. As you can see earlier, numerous world leaders made it their mission to open up immigration and made it their mandate to not give people the question on whether they wanted this done to their nation. Subsequently, this makes them salty, and so the backlash does not fall on their leaders, but on the migrants and their descendants. In my experiences addressing the concerns of people seriously instead of belittling them as morons when they can see clearly what you're doing to their communities helps foster much more intra-community respect than simply laughing at them. End of the day they remain my neighbours and I'd rather keep them as family in civic cooperation if such a thing is not possible by bonds of shared blood, religion or culture. And honestly, European culture wherever you go is in a right state.
Also just factually, the Han trace their continuity several thousand years back, most European sub-groups will trace theirs at least over a thousand years back, including the whole range of North Africa to the ME. Probably youngest is Turkish identity since Turkification of Anatolia started with one of the last great nomadic conquests and epic level Kebabini skeelz
If they're so afraid of losing culture, then they should promote culture, like "It's awesome to be <insert country name>!", it's called cultural acclimation and absorption. It's what the Romans did, except they did it more forcefully and partially through the awe of civilization.
If only it was as easy as that. Sadly as with our Al-Britanis, you cannot assimilate an unwilling person, and even if they are culturally assimilated that's not to say they won't still try murdering their homeland's people, or otherwise fostering a community apart from everyone else :/
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