funny how AFP - who wrote this account - left out:
13 Sept: Voice of Europe: Dalai Lama: Europe belongs to Europeans and refugees have to go home
He also repeatedly said that Chinese mass immigration to Tibet is the biggest threat to the nation’s identity.
“The unimpeded influx of Chinese immigrants to Tibet has the effect of flooding Tibet’s distinct cultural and religious identity and Tibetans being reduced to an insignificant minority in their own country.
“It is nothing less than a cultural genocide”, he said during a speech in connection with the 38th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/09/dalai-lama-europe-belongs-to-europeans-and-refugees-have-to-go-home/
in other words, he know of what he speaks.
an interesting aside on cultural migration.
There is a TV series on wild areas of China. One segment featured tibet. Since forever, tibetians raise very tall poles with ropes. The poles and the ropes are covered with bright colored clothes that flap like small flags. The raising ceremony and the bright colors have some religious significance.
Several ropes are used to raise the pole. One tibetian man working a rope was clad in jeans and was wearing a straw stetson hat. One wonders how a stetson hat, jeans and a western shirt made it to the far back boondocks of Tibet
Namaste, bro.
“Dalai Lama: Europe belongs to Europeans and refugees have to go home.He also repeatedly said that Chinese mass immigration to Tibet is the biggest threat to the nation’s identity. The unimpeded influx of Chinese immigrants to Tibet has the effect of flooding Tibet’s distinct cultural and religious identity and Tibetans being reduced to an insignificant minority in their own country.”
But you only own that which you are willing and able to defend by whatever means available to you.
The Tibetans have the will but not the means, the Europeans (and us, I might add) have the means but not the will.