Tibetan Nomads Have Choice in Settlement Program: NPR

Posted by on Oct 21, 2014 in Blog | 0 comments

In contrast to the pervasively negative and distorted portrayals by Tibetan independence support groups of China’s Tibetan and other ethnic nomad settlement programs as oppressive, coercive, and damaging to the traditional nomadic way of life, here is a fairly balanced report by a veteran NPR reporter who visited a family of former Tibetan nomads in Yushu, Qinghai Province.

The government provided the family with a comfortable apartment but the father has decided to go back to his nomadic life.  So, it’s not a matter of settlement in towns or else.  Tibetan families have the choice of putting one foot in towns and the other in their traditional ranges.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/10/14/356012331/chinas-nomads-are-caught-between-two-worlds