Thank Jerry, another great video. The standard of living in Tibet is higher than the neighbouring countries. That is the result of poverty alleviation program.
Me too Until one fine day while having breakfast with my good friend some 30years ago....he told me that he loves watching western movies You know his reason....its because they always portray that "white man always wins" Simple words but it shook me up that day Blessed be his soul
Sad that we all grew up with that influence and, to this day, it's created a large school of people who believe that might is right and whiter is righter!
I was in Tibet 2014 with my husband and in laws. Our first impression upon landing in Llasa was how like Switzerland it was. The several days we spent visiting Llasa and its environs, the temples, the palaces, the museum, the obeisance of worshippers, convinced my initially skeptical Swiss relatives that what they saw was the real Tibet, now happily reclaiming its Chinese name of Xizang.
It is so easy for us westerners to have pre-conceptions because we are fed so much misleading and misinformed information through our media. I'm impressed by your videos and insights into Chinese life. I also watch other china related youtube videos including ones from littlechineseeverywhere who travels around china on a scooter. She is ethnic chinese with a western upbringing and has recently posted about her experiences in Tibet.
Yes, she does a wonderful job showing us "unseen China." Her current Tibetan journey gives us sights most of us will never see without her. Her casual & easy interaction with local people is heartwarming. We see that there are many different ethnic groups in Tibet.
You should have asked to Tibetan in Tibet and not to Chinese! But yeah there is so much restrictions and suppression on Tibetan people that they can’t say how really they feel inside but to pretend. CCP lie and people die! And that’s continue even now. #FreeTibet
I visited a small part of Tibet in 2007. I didn't get to Lhasa but was told that was overrun by Chinese Han anyhow. I could see that changes were coming, but they hadn't materialized into much in the small city we visited. I went with western narrative clearly in my head. It has taken several years & further understanding of history, both of China & Tibet to sort through the rubbish. Thanks for your efforts on this.
One thing I can say for certain is that the Han have not overrun the region. Lhasa is a thriving Tibetan city with some evidence of Han there, but a lot less than Urumqi, Turpan and Hami, or even Khorgas in the West of Xinjiang
@@jerrystakeonchina799stop lying😂 Han is almost 50% of the population in Lhasa. Everything is written in Mandarin and if Tibetan is on it its always written smaller than mandarin. Go there and ask if the younger generation speaks Tibetan😂 they will say no
@@Tsungmey So, you've been there? It's funny how you don't mention that English is everywhere in Wales and Ireland and that most people there are no longer fluent in their own Celtic languages. Funny that.
Maybe one day, you will visit, as I now have and you will hear the local people speaking their local language, as I have - I wonder, with your foreign ears if you even understand it yourself???
The reason you were invited to Tibet is because you don't run an entertaining channel as most, but one about "serious" and important issues. I follow dozen channels about China. So far, you and Kevin from Inside China Business have unique consequent content. Congratulations! From Sao Paulo, Brasil 😊
I haven't changed the name, it's most certainly not Tibet, that's an English name for Bod, right - you would already know that thought, assuming you speak Tibetan, I'm sure the word Tibet and Tibetan is offensive to you
Thank you, Jerry. Now I really must go to China to confirm that I have been misinformed as I truly want to be a truthfully informed person. Perhaps, I might even run into you (that will be the icing on the proverbial cake)! 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍
I live not far from Hong Kong and Macau Angie, please feel free to look me up - I'm on the Macau side of the PRD but with the bridge and ferries, that's not far at all from HK
The neighborhood countries were used to be the tributary of China. Like Japan, Okinawa，Korea，Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodian, Laos, Philippine, Nepal and so on。
@@Tsungmey The Zang in Xizang comes from the Tibetan word for a region there. Tibet is the English name. Tibetans never use the word Tibet in their language. Just like how Zhumulangma is the Chinese word for Mount Everest and comes from the Tibetan name. Fancy naming an Asian mountain after a westerner. Please, don't comment if you know nothing.
Keep up the good work Jerry; eventually truth will sink in to the thickest skull unless they are politicians on he take to further their careers in the west. Rgards from Ozz.
Excellent video Jerry, years ago, I also believed the lies about Tibet, and it took a while before I was willing to accept I was lied to. Some "people" really believe that when you repeat a lie frequently, it becomes reality. Same thing with all the lies about Xinjiang. Keep on spreading the truth, 👍 ❤️🇨🇳❤️🇨🇳
Years ago Luc, so did I. I knew within hours of arriving in China that I'd been misinformed, but it was my trips to Xinjiang which led me to understand just how misinformed I was. I'm so pleased to have been able to see this for myself
Can’t wait for part 2 . Maybe the fact that they selected you is that you speak to another audience one which is different from the rest of The influencers.
I'd like to think so, for sure, most of them were Chinese influencers and I really don't think the Chinese market needs to be told about this, they already know, so this was a strange trip, but quite an honour for me
Thank you, Jerry, for your honest take on Tibet. You’re right about Western media propaganda! It did take years to shake off for me. I remember when we lived in Nanjing and were told of “unrest” and demonstrations in Nanjing from western press and no one, including local people knew what we was talking about; we felt “privileged” to have access to western news as we knew what “really was going on”!
I've even seen that here, with protests in China and, in the same media a week before or a week after they tell us that Chinese aren't allowed to protest!
Thanks, Jerry for your take on Xizang. I am relieved & also jealous of your ability to adapt so easily to the high-altitude terrain of Xizang. I have no reservation whatsoever in trusting your righteousness in reporting what you see & saw in my granny country China.
Honestly Donat, I think a lot of the issues with the altitude are hyped up more than they needed to be, I was quite worried about it but getting to 3,600 metres caused nothing more than a headache on the first night - just a few days ago, I was in Guizhou at 4,700 metres and not a problem at all, there were 20 of us and no one had an issue; I wonder why???
Good views. I have "travelled" Xizang for many years. through ethnic Tibetan peoples videos. It started with my interest in Mt Kailash, then Qoomalangma. I then received a feed as to a young girl Rhoma a pastoralist. Her family lived and farmed Yaks, their lives very primitive then she found Cordyceps on the hill behind their home. She became a specialist and trader in the TCM. Transformative. From agrarian poverty to owning a Range Rover (!) and a Toyota land cruiser. Her last post was in Chengdu spending on luxury. Others not so spectacular. I researched the history found the 17 points of agreement between PRC and then Dali Llama in USA library of Congress. It was no China invasion. The last invasion of Xizang was 1903/4 by a British brigade (expeditionary force) who as their normal raped and pillaged. It was a last act by Qing dynasty to kick the Brits out . A cemetery of Chinese fallen is near Shigatse, still maintained by locals in memory. 2008 UK government recognised Tibet as being China province
Cheers for adding that Frank, I think the girl might not want to flaunt her wealth too much, the government has asked social media commentators to follow a code and it includes no deliberate flaunting. I hope she doesn't step over that line or she'll get warned and then account closed
Oh wow! I had the same experience as you on subconscious confirmation bias. My parents immigrated the entire family to the US in 1968, so I had the full American measures in education, media, and popular culture, especially on biases vs. non-US and non-European societies. Even after six visits, I still actively looked for evidence that China was more like what the US media told me and not what my eyes saw. I wised up after, but caught my self after the tenth visit subliminally looking for dog/cat meat vendors in street stalls. The moral of the story is half-a-century of propaganda and conditioning is hard to completely break, because the stuff is imprinted in the reptilian part of the brain. That's why I try and cut my fellow Americans a little slack when they utter nonsense about China (that aren't clearly racist), because I well know they have been brainwashed as I have.
Can't wait for your tibetian adventures to be posted up!!! Its so encouraging to see and hear good news. Many thanks again Jerry, now hurry up wIth the next uploads 😂😂 just kidding
I have one I need to do about Xinjiang first, I also just got back from Guizhou with several articles written up to turn into videos, so about a week, maybe a little more before episode 2 is up, but it's in the pipeline already
Wow Jerry you’re so lucky to experience Tibet👌👍Thanks sharing your travel experiences 🙏 really lovely you debunking western stereotypes propaganda about Tibet & China👌👍🙏 look forward to your next video 🙏
I really look forward to your videos on Guizhou to see what it’s like now! When I visited there in 2015 with a tour I was told that it’s the second poorest province in China, though its natural beauty - the waterfalls and caves etc was second to none!
It's still a poor province Louise, one of the reasons for my trip was a poverty alleviation program about partnering cities. It's definitely not impoverished now, but I can see why it was so poor, the mountains, beautiful but impossible to cross without roads and trains, which they now have
I reckon one of the reasons why there are so many Chinese flags in Tibet is the Tibetans were (probably still are) extremely grateful of the arrival of the PLA/CPC. They kicked out Dalai 14th and his cronies and let the average people free.
Possibly, but I do think there is still some insecurity there on the part of the CPC, I don't blame them, they've had 70 years of Washington interference
Jerry, there is a million subscribed Aussie pair on YT traveled to Tibet and Xinjiang, released their videos in the past weeks, got pumped too much by the ABC perhaps, second time coming to China, still couldn't shake their heads off pride and prejudice, at their very young of ages, live like an old English member of the House of Lords.
There will always be people with different perceptions but if they're coming to Tibet and Xinjiang, it really doesn't matter what they say, the very fact that they are there proves it's open - I wonder how many followers I'd have if I was anti-China!!!
@@jerrystakeonchina799 I mentioned this because I was disgusted by they basically saying the Chinese government provide minor ethnics ways to live a modern life, people should respect those people's "traditional ways of living", which we know is slavery, I mean, did they even know what the heck were they talking about? Absolute ignorance!
Tnx for the video Jerry. I have been to the 3 big cities of Tibet. After my tour, I go around by myself. I notice that T1betan script can be use in W1chat. Also, going to CHN Post, I saw a newspaper in T1betan script. T1betan culture preserved.
Isnt it the poorest Province - Autonomous Region of China? I remember a story when China fought JPN, a group of orphan boys went to war on straw sandals and people asked them : why are you going to fight on straw sandals? It will be winter soon, you will freeze. The answer of the boys was : we will not be alive when winter comes. I feel very sad, each time remembering this story.
I think it's true, there were a lot of people died during the long march and during the war of liberation. It is one of the poorest, for a while there it vied with Ningxia but it's definitely improving, there are many traces of poverty as we drive through we see poos famers working hard but the cities are much better than I expected
Jerry, nice info on Tibet. You pronounced the six holy words very well. Tibet is one of the rare few provinces that I have not visited as Iwas worried about altitude illness. However, in May, I had a tour change from Guizhou to a place called Daochen Yading in Sichuan, without realising the altitudes can be higher than Tibet (one point was above 6,000m). Nice scenery but really need to carry handheld oxygen tanks, and still panting like crazy, haha. I will visit Guizhou, Mohe (aurora hopefully) and kekexili (Xinjiang,which I visited before) next year. China is too beautiful not to visit regularly.
I've been to much of Xinjiang, mostly on a bike and just returned from Guizhou where you're right, there are several parts which are higher than Lhasa, the highest I went to in Tibet was 7520m which was a pass, it was cold and damp but other than that, no problems for me at all
Same reason they have leaders portraits in their house. It’s a traditional theological society where the leaders are spiritual leaders at the same time
Tibet is a special area, great to hear you visited there. The oxygen low may cause uncomfortable for most of travelers. I wish I could visit there in future!
I am looking forward to see your coming videos. I can't go to there because I suffer altitude sickness whenever I go to the hills of Xichuen and Xinjiang. I have been in Urumqi, Tinchi (sky lake), Daocheng Yading. Very difficult time. "Eyes in Heaven but Head in the hell".
That must be very hard, I was lucky - I've been to all the other places you mention and just come back from Guizhou where, I was up at 4,700m one afternoon, all without any problems at all, so I really feel for you, it must be awful, I do consider myself to be very lucky, it was a thing I was worried about, fortunately, no concerns at all once there.
I remember back in 2006, in a community college public speaking class, we were asked to do a "persuasive" speech. It needed a "call to action" at the end. At the time, I was very interested in Buddhism, and of course that leads back to Tibet, and, being American, China and the "invasion". However, even at that time, when I started digging into it I started getting a bit confused about how facts lined up, and how things were worded, so I changed a little bit. Instead of "Help Free Tibet" I changed to "Think about it" and shared a bit of what I found. To this day, I doubt a single person in the class ever gave it a second thought, but it's been in the back of my head ever since. My memory isn't great, so I can't be sure of what didn't line up at the time, but I suspect it was all the traditional Western media propaganda (US propaganda at the core) getting in the way. I know exactly why they chose you among influencers, between your naturally calm demeanor, practical experience through riding around China, detailed researching and notetaking, and being a foreigner who moved there gives you credibility that you're genuinely happy with your life there. Getting the word out around China is good, but getting it out to the English-speaking world can eventually give a little breathing room to China if they don't have to fear everyone hating them for unjust reasons. Heck, I'd love to buy some cheaper (but quality) solar panels and a car, giving the government 7% extra and the bank 3% extra, but... Anyway, I'm glad you went, I'm glad you're sharing, and I can't wait until the next video. Keep up the excellent work!
Thanks Brandon, it's an honour to be slected and I hadn't given a thought to those reasons but I guess yo're right, I have a unique perspective and insight - interesting that you found discrepancies, I suspect every critical thinker in the world would find them, I'm happy that you did. :-))
One of the reason you need a tour guide is because the language barriers with the locals as the older people cant understand english nor Chinese Mandarin. And the other reason you will need a local that is immune to latitude sickness as it can be very hazardous if you are travel to some place desolate and you got the latitude sickness. Other reason is to make a job opportunities to the locals as a tour guide.
All very true, the big one seems to be the altitude sickness, if that occurs in a rmeote region you would be in serious trouble, however, all the buses have a tank and small canisters of oxygen are available almost everywhere
Everything the CIA touched would turned into chaos, if not tragedy. It was why Lhasa had that hatred ethnic tension in the past. The old school noble turned monk class wanted to restore their privileges of old Tibet. Of course, New China will not let it happen.
Manners, Jerry, manners. Tibet was an English translation used a long time ago. The locals termed themselves Xizanger for many many years. And I think Chinese government is catching on. Officially translating the area term from Tibet to Xizang.
@tsungmey; Xizang, or bod is used by locals there. Tibet is the name conqueror gave to those colonizer slave owners, like Dalai Lama and his cohorts. Every since March 28th, 1959, the slavery emancipation has led to xizanger life spin increase from ~35 to 77 years of age. No longer in-bonding slaves by Dalai Lama and cohorts, xizanger can have income to travel and feel free. Are you a slave owner offsprings, still proudly display your past slave owner flag?
Yeah, I’ve figured out that these “locals” are about as local as you or I. With their English, I suspect some are indians and probably living in Arunachal Pradesh (occupied South Tibet).
I live in suburban Melbourne, Australia. Nearby is still an area of Market Gardens, I have seen a few Asian women working there. They still wear the broad brimmed Bamboo Hats, many still wearing traditional clothing
Looking forward to your coming trip to Guizhou. If possible try to visit the interesting old town of Zhenyuan and some of the enthic minority villages which are some of the best in China
Unfortunately, I was limited to one city, Luipanshui, as it's partnered with Zhongshan for poverty alleviation purposes. But I do hope I can visit again, just never on a bike, the mountains are never ending!
Thanks Jerry! Looking forward to your next videos on Xizang (need to start getting used to the new term. Like switching from Peking to Beijing). Also thanks for the reminder to check the subscribe button - I just found out I was somehow "un-subscibed" !
The thing with lies is you might think you keep an open mind, but at the back of your mind you were already affected by them somehow; it's just a matter of degree, and your objectivity depends on your ability to recognize & hopefully overcome that. For example, I watched a video recently by some RUclipsrs on their trip to Xinjiang, where the Western media had been telling us there was g___cide and - when that didn't really stick - cultural g___cide. Those RUclipsrs actually found the Xinjiang people happy, but they added: "Are they happy because of the change(s) or in spite of the change(s)?" Now I had previously seen them travel to different countries where they had also found the people happy, but Xinjiang was the only place they felt the need to question the reason for their happiness assuming there were some 'forced' changes in their lives that they didn't want. That's the kind of bias that systematic lies do to you. Even when you find no evidence supporting the lies, you might still be harbouring doubts in the back of your mind.
All true Kevin, strangely, I didn't feel it so much in Xinjiang, probably because my first trip there was before the lies all started and even the BBC were reporting correctly on the terrorism, although not who was fermenting it!
A video on the real Tibet by a British guy to English-speaking audience is far more effective than one by a Chinese guy. With the 144-hour visa-free travel implementation, coupled with what you have been doing, I am confident more and more westerners will come to visit China. They will see the real China and help to share with their fellow countrymen how much they have been misinformed about China. Looking forward to follow your other videos on Tibet and also those on Guizhou. Well Jerry, I am now busy writing my observation and experience on my China trip.
Of course, there are a lot of chinese flags in Tibet because it's a chinese province or autonomous region. You won't see plenty of Chinese flags in, e.g. New York. 😅
Hi, Jerry. I recently watched the documentary "The Coming War on China" by the late Australian journalist John Pilger. I was wondering if you had seen it, and, if so, what your thoughts were on it?
i need to watch that!!! ive been meaning to watch that for years... a good watch? enlightening? what did you think about it? do you think its the same war? do you think China will entertain a war with the US.... IMO China is in full control of whether to have war or initiate or partake in a war with the West! in fact IMO China and the West are currently in a war and China is in full control and also winning that war!! and it also has consequences for that hot war people think about hence China is in control of it and the fate of the worlds destiny and im optimistic that everything is in favour of China.... Well it seems the US is another day another war with someone else..... Iran is now likely on the cards... and if Ukraine reach out to China for a peace solution then its all over for Western credibility if it hasnt already been for years..., US is biting off waaaay more than it can chew..... hence this coming war with China may be a nonstarter! China will be waaaay too powerful geopolitically, militarily and economically by the time the US and the West finish whats on their plate
When you find out there are Tibetans living in other parts of China (thanks Yan @littlechineseeverywhere), next to other minorities, and then even more interesting is when you find these minorities have taken on Tibetan culture in their clothes, religion and food, but have retained some of their own culture...and this happened over centuries. I wonder what you would call this? Cultural genocide, imperialism, colonisation by Tibetans? The idea of culture and ppl being hermetically sealed off from time, history, and other groups of ppl is a concept so false and misguided, I have to seriously question the logic of anyone trying to use it to criticise what is essentially being human. How did the Tibetans become Buddhist in the first place? My take on these guided tours is that it's more an issue of presentation/form rather than content. There does seem to be an almost unaware naivety in the media language the Chinese have developed. You've mentioned this in your videos Jerry, about how straight forward and frankly boring Chinese media is. When I started to look at the way ppl expressed themselves, the form of how things were presented, it became obvious this was an issue of form. Unfortunately, this has opened the door to misunderstanding, misrepresentation, distortion, and propaganda from the West, who are the absolute masters of media soft sell - the best propaganda is when you don't realise it's propaganda. Wanting to show the best of what you have is universal and you find this practiced anywhere in the West. But the particularly straight forward and literal way it's done in China does comes across as blunt and rather unsophisticated. In many ways, this could be seen as a positive, because it's so obvious and open. But I do think they need to at least cultivate a more sophisticated understanding of form and presentation, and how this is received by different ppl and cultures. Thanks Jerry, this is the open and reflexive perspective I've come to really appreciate from you. 👍
Very true Walkingsideways, the Tibetan Plain is much larger than the Xizang Region, which is why the government has decided to change it, it's actually confusing to use the word Tibet, or Tibetan because it encompasses a people and a region that is so large, Sichuan and Qinghai, as well as Yunnan all have large Tibetan populations too
Thanks for the video. Are there any western documentaries on what Tibet was like before China annexed it? Much of the content is from Chinese sources. There seems little western interest in Tibet in feudal times.
True that, the only things that have any reflection of Tibetan history are from people like Richard Gere and Brad Pitt, neither of whom have ever visited Tibet but both of whom have visited the Dalai Lama
I visited the Buddhist University, but it was school holidays, so I wasn't able to visit schools, perhaps next time. However I did chat with a Tibetan guy in a village 2 hours drive from Linzhi, he told me it used to take 2 weeks for him to get to high school so he stayed there all year and only came home for the long holiday, not even for CNY as the trip was too far, it's now only 2 hours by road but the path goes to over 5,700 metres
@@jerrystakeonchina799thanks Jerry and hope soon you will be able to visit those Boarding Schools which has been one of the Hot Spots since few years. The truth must be judged on its ground level👌
Understand exactly your feelings. You want to verify that whether what the MSM claims has some truth in them. Perhaps they know something that I don’t so you look harder.
It’s sad that you have to constantly remind your subscribers to check that they’re still subscribed. But I know that is necessary as I’ve been unsubscribed all the time and have to almost resubscribe every time I watch one of your new videos. So much for free speech!
I guess Google, which owns YT and the CIA, which owns America, don't want my messages out there all the time - I often wake up in the morning with less followers than I had the day before, by the time I go to bed it's up again but then the next morning it's either not grown, or decreased slightly, it's two steps forward and one step back every time
Bravo, people need to believe based on what they see and hear, and not strictly from third-person interpretation. Why some people don't believe in themselves that they are capable of attesting to things, and to deter where the truth lies? Perhaps, that's why Evangelical churches in the US can fill a concert hall with believers every Sunday, and makes their head pastors billionaire. Yet, they find that is OK.
Honestly I have no idea, I made the trip with a media group at the expense of the Xizang Information office - I thought I made that clear, sorry if it wasn't
As a contrast to your experience, we just came from a trip to Mt Whitney, the highest place in the lower 48 states. We saw no native people there, not a single one. We all know what had happened to them after the genocidal expansion of the white. - how is my NYT/BBC style writing? 😂
Tibetans go about the country wearing their ethnic clothing. I'd say as far as cultural identity goes, Tibetan is the most intact. There's even a monestry complex in Xining where you don't get to see one single starred red flag flying prominently (like it would in a church or a mosque or a buddhist temple).
I saw plenty of Chinese flags in Tibet and each monatary had them but, I can't remember seeing one at the Potala Palace, I wasn't paying attention so I might have missed it but I don't remember it
That may be so, but I entered from the back door and still haven't been to the front - it's not a big deal, Tibet, Bod, or Xizang, whatever you want to call it is part of China - you shold visit sometime, you might like it
I've done one, it will be loaded in the next few minutes - in fact, it has just finished loading while I've been answering these comments, if you go there now, you'll find it - it's not specifically about Pan, he's actually 100% clear of drugs, never been involed or caught and is completly clean, it's more about how the US cheats its way through everything
Hi Jerry, Would you say the real intent behind the US Congress recently passed Tibet Act is to create a new map to split up China or to motivate India into seizing more and larger border areas from China with the full backing of the US military might should China resist the Indian landgrabbibg exercise?
Despite what Washington says and does, the Chinese and Indians are discussing a resolution and will not stop until one is reached. Tibet, according to the Dalai Lama, the United Nations and officially the US State Department is part of China. There's nothing more to discuss about it
Officially Xizang, okay, I’ll bite. If any aussie calls it, tibet. I’ll call Australia, “biik”, “uthuru”, “kurrek”, “barna”, or any of those old names for the “new holland”.
Good idea. The fact is, Tibet has never been its name in either Tibet or China, it's only the name used when speaking English, so there's a little confusion - another example is Hong Kon, or Macau, if I ever mention either of those places in either Mandarin or Cantonese (another example there, Putonghua or Guoyu and Guangdonghua) no one will know what I’m talking about Hong Kong is a derivative of the Cantonese way of saying Xiang gang, which means perfumed port. I wonder if that will ever change, Macau I'm not so sure about as I've looked into it but it's known as Ao Men here meaning Bay of Ama, the goddess who helped seafarers. No one in China ever calls them Hong Kong or Macau, unless they're speaking English, so if they ever change, it won't be an erasure of history, it will be a correction from a 150 and now nearly 200 year aberration
Yeah okay. Guoyu was congressionally voted in as Chinese national language, from court language, 700-800 years of history. Dr Sun Yatsen, a Cantonese, cast the deciding vote for it. My Chinese friend, a Manchurian, told me his ancestors figured out, to conquer han China was easily done going through one dialect at a time. I think Japanese found that out as well, pitting people of one dialect against another. Chinese, KMT or CPC, experienced the dialectic divisiveness throughout ww2. They couldn’t wait to push mandarin to all parts of China, to nowadays. I think CPC calls it Putonghua for “face” reason. I mean, they don’t use “guo”flag, guo military, guo song,,, when these are different. But, guoyu and putonghua are exactly the same. Why not just call mandarin guoyu?
In Tibet, no - all kids there learn it, but it's not a tested subject, the normal college entry exam is called the Gaokao, it includes English but not Tibetan - Daniel Dumbril proved this by asking a student to explain a science project in Tibetan, the student did a great job, 100 unscripted
Probably not, there are two reasons, one is a genuine fear that foreigners could get into trouble with altitude sickness and not having a tour guide could lead to serious complications, even death, the other is that the CIA have been causing problems over the region for more than 70 years, so it's not in China's interest to allow foreigners into the region without keeping an eye on them
I'm really not sure, I think it takes longer than 15 days to get approval to go to Tibet, i've never gone as a normal traveller, I went as part of this media group and, while I really loved it, I have to say, I was treated differently to how I would have been trated if my wife and I had decided to holiday there
I actually find it's mental to love their country's flag too much. Like hug it, kiss it, make it into underwear, all those things sound disgusting and really maniac.
I believe it's not legal to turn the Chinese flag into clothing, it can be placed on clothing in the form of a badge but not worn as clothing, that would be disrepectful and, the only person I've ever seen doing it was a foreigner wearing a T short with the five stars across his left breast, my wife was upset, I dread to think what people who didn't know him thought!
@@jerrystakeonchina799 oh yes, I'm talking about some "united" country who 80% of the citizens worry about a civil war after the coming election who happen claim themselves "democracy".
Thank Jerry, another great video. The standard of living in Tibet is higher than the neighbouring countries. That is the result of poverty alleviation program.
Jerry, sometimes being able to influence 100K people outside of China is just as impactful as influencing millions in China.
You might be right, the Chinese audience hardly needs influencing about what's happening in China :-)
@@jerrystakeonchina799😂 good one, Jerry!
Great comment, I fully agree with you
Me too
Until one fine day while having breakfast with my good friend some 30years ago....he told me that he loves watching western movies
You know his reason....its because they always portray that "white man always wins"
Simple words but it shook me up that day
Blessed be his soul
Sad that we all grew up with that influence and, to this day, it's created a large school of people who believe that might is right and whiter is righter!
We all have these kinds of experiences, but the young generation of Chinese wouldn’t be brainwashed by the ridiculous propaganda.
Thank you Jerry for bringing the truths to the world! Your amazing work is always appreciated! Have a wonderful journey ❤
Well done Jerry...looking forward to the Tibet series and all your truthful, unbiased content.
I was in Tibet 2014 with my husband and in laws. Our first impression upon landing in Llasa was how like Switzerland it was. The several days we spent visiting Llasa and its environs, the temples, the palaces, the museum, the obeisance of worshippers, convinced my initially skeptical Swiss relatives that what they saw was the real Tibet, now happily reclaiming its Chinese name of Xizang.
Linzhi is very Swiss, Lhasa seems quite barren to me but they are both beautiful in their own ways
It is so easy for us westerners to have pre-conceptions because we are fed so much misleading and misinformed information through our media. I'm impressed by your videos and insights into Chinese life. I also watch other china related youtube videos including ones from littlechineseeverywhere who travels around china on a scooter. She is ethnic chinese with a western upbringing and has recently posted about her experiences in Tibet.
Most westerners are misled by false reports about China by those anti China fake news propaganda
Yes, she does a wonderful job showing us "unseen China." Her current Tibetan journey gives us sights most of us will never see without her. Her casual & easy interaction with local people is heartwarming. We see that there are many different ethnic groups in Tibet.
By her accent she would’ve grown up in China but studied overseas. I reckoned:)
She had studied in Switzerland.
You should have asked to Tibetan in Tibet and not to Chinese! But yeah there is so much restrictions and suppression on Tibetan people that they can’t say how really they feel inside but to pretend. CCP lie and people die! And that’s continue even now. #FreeTibet
So looking forward to everyone of your videos. Thank you for sharing so much of your insight.
Jerry a picture is worth a thousand words. 👍👍
I visited a small part of Tibet in 2007. I didn't get to Lhasa but was told that was overrun by Chinese Han anyhow. I could see that changes were coming, but they hadn't materialized into much in the small city we visited. I went with western narrative clearly in my head. It has taken several years & further understanding of history, both of China & Tibet to sort through the rubbish. Thanks for your efforts on this.
One thing I can say for certain is that the Han have not overrun the region. Lhasa is a thriving Tibetan city with some evidence of Han there, but a lot less than Urumqi, Turpan and Hami, or even Khorgas in the West of Xinjiang
@@jerrystakeonchina799stop lying😂 Han is almost 50% of the population in Lhasa. Everything is written in Mandarin and if Tibetan is on it its always written smaller than mandarin. Go there and ask if the younger generation speaks Tibetan😂 they will say no
Surely Lhasa can't be as bad as Hawaii being overrun by white Americans or Maui being overrun by mutli-millionaires like Oprah Winfrey
@@Tsungmey So, you've been there? It's funny how you don't mention that English is everywhere in Wales and Ireland and that most people there are no longer fluent in their own Celtic languages. Funny that.
Maybe one day, you will visit, as I now have and you will hear the local people speaking their local language, as I have - I wonder, with your foreign ears if you even understand it yourself???
Thank you,Jerry.
Thank you for your hard working and unbiased reports. I love it so much. Please keep going!
The reason you were invited to Tibet is because you don't run an entertaining channel as most, but one about "serious" and important issues. I follow dozen channels about China. So far, you and Kevin from Inside China Business have unique consequent content. Congratulations! From Sao Paulo, Brasil 😊
Thank you, I also watch a lot of Kevin's posts, he's really good I think, very well informed
Jerry, you are true, you are honest, and that's greatest human values you have, and your words means a lot. Thank you!
I appreciate that Leo, thank you
Looking forward to more Tibet videos. Keep up the good work👍👍🙏🙏
Can't wait ro see your exploits in Tibet or should I rightly say Xijang! thank you Jerry. Have a pleasant journey to your next destination.
U cant rightly change a name😂😂
I haven't changed the name, it's most certainly not Tibet, that's an English name for Bod, right - you would already know that thought, assuming you speak Tibetan, I'm sure the word Tibet and Tibetan is offensive to you
Looking forward to your next videos!
Ayaaaah, i always listen to Xi-Zang music when watching vids with Xi-Zang girls dancing😍 traditional Xi-Zang dance 😂😂😂
Looking forward to the rest of your Tibet adventure and Guizhou as well when you're ready! ❤.
Thank you, Jerry.
Now I really must go to China to confirm that I have been misinformed as I truly want to be a truthfully informed person. Perhaps, I might even run into you (that will be the icing on the proverbial cake)! 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍
I live not far from Hong Kong and Macau Angie, please feel free to look me up - I'm on the Macau side of the PRD but with the bridge and ferries, that's not far at all from HK
You need to get here, it's amazing - people are great and so safe
Xizang is China.
Xinjiang is China.
Taiwan is China.
Hongkong is China.
Macau is China.
Liked and shared 👍
The neighborhood countries were used to be the tributary of China. Like Japan, Okinawa，Korea，Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodian, Laos, Philippine, Nepal and so on。
Wumao got his 5 cents for saying Xizang instead of Tibet
@@Tsungmey The Zang in Xizang comes from the Tibetan word for a region there. Tibet is the English name. Tibetans never use the word Tibet in their language. Just like how Zhumulangma is the Chinese word for Mount Everest and comes from the Tibetan name. Fancy naming an Asian mountain after a westerner.
Please, don't comment if you know nothing.
@@pbworld7858she has to play dog to her white masters
@@Tsungmey You get 5 cents too. Good job.
Thanks Jerry. Excellent info as usual.
Thank you Daniel
Another thumb up to you for speaking with candor.
It is all so positive for me.
But I only did so after I finished viewing the entire video. ❤
Thanks, there are more coming but I have such a busy few days, it might be a week or more before I can get them out
absolutely looking forward to these!!!
im also beginning to understand the power of propaganda and subliminal messaging
Keep up the good work Jerry; eventually truth will sink in to the thickest skull unless they are politicians on he take to further their careers in the west. Rgards from Ozz.
I always follow you and your truthful reports. Looking forward to more of your Tibet reports.
This is an awesome video of truth in Asia. I look forward to the next one on Tibet!
Excellent video Jerry, years ago, I also believed the lies about Tibet, and it took a while before I was willing to accept I was lied to. Some "people" really believe that when you repeat a lie frequently, it becomes reality. Same thing with all the lies about Xinjiang. Keep on spreading the truth, 👍 ❤️🇨🇳❤️🇨🇳
Years ago Luc, so did I. I knew within hours of arriving in China that I'd been misinformed, but it was my trips to Xinjiang which led me to understand just how misinformed I was. I'm so pleased to have been able to see this for myself
Can’t wait for part 2 .
Maybe the fact that they selected you is that you speak to another audience one which is different from the rest of The influencers.
I'd like to think so, for sure, most of them were Chinese influencers and I really don't think the Chinese market needs to be told about this, they already know, so this was a strange trip, but quite an honour for me
Jerry is so insightful, informative and articulate as always!!👍
Thank you, Jerry, for your honest take on Tibet. You’re right about Western media propaganda! It did take years to shake off for me. I remember when we lived in Nanjing and were told of “unrest” and demonstrations in Nanjing from western press and no one, including local people knew what we was talking about; we felt “privileged” to have access to western news as we knew what “really was going on”!
I've even seen that here, with protests in China and, in the same media a week before or a week after they tell us that Chinese aren't allowed to protest!
Thanks, Jerry for your take on Xizang. I am relieved & also jealous of your ability to adapt so easily to the high-altitude terrain of Xizang. I have no reservation whatsoever in trusting your righteousness in reporting what you see & saw in my granny country China.
Honestly Donat, I think a lot of the issues with the altitude are hyped up more than they needed to be, I was quite worried about it but getting to 3,600 metres caused nothing more than a headache on the first night - just a few days ago, I was in Guizhou at 4,700 metres and not a problem at all, there were 20 of us and no one had an issue; I wonder why???
Thanks Jerry 👍
Can't wait for your follow ups on your trip to Tibet!
Good views. I have "travelled" Xizang for many years. through ethnic Tibetan peoples videos. It started with my interest in Mt Kailash, then Qoomalangma. I then received a feed as to a young girl Rhoma a pastoralist. Her family lived and farmed Yaks, their lives very primitive then she found Cordyceps on the hill behind their home. She became a specialist and trader in the TCM. Transformative. From agrarian poverty to owning a Range Rover (!) and a Toyota land cruiser. Her last post was in Chengdu spending on luxury. Others not so spectacular. I researched the history found the 17 points of agreement between PRC and then Dali Llama in USA library of Congress. It was no China invasion. The last invasion of Xizang was 1903/4 by a British brigade (expeditionary force) who as their normal raped and pillaged. It was a last act by Qing dynasty to kick the Brits out . A cemetery of Chinese fallen is near Shigatse, still maintained by locals in memory. 2008 UK government recognised Tibet as being China province
Cheers for adding that Frank, I think the girl might not want to flaunt her wealth too much, the government has asked social media commentators to follow a code and it includes no deliberate flaunting. I hope she doesn't step over that line or she'll get warned and then account closed
Oh wow! I had the same experience as you on subconscious confirmation bias. My parents immigrated the entire family to the US in 1968, so I had the full American measures in education, media, and popular culture, especially on biases vs. non-US and non-European societies. Even after six visits, I still actively looked for evidence that China was more like what the US media told me and not what my eyes saw. I wised up after, but caught my self after the tenth visit subliminally looking for dog/cat meat vendors in street stalls. The moral of the story is half-a-century of propaganda and conditioning is hard to completely break, because the stuff is imprinted in the reptilian part of the brain. That's why I try and cut my fellow Americans a little slack when they utter nonsense about China (that aren't clearly racist), because I well know they have been brainwashed as I have.
Thanks Tony, it does seem that we have a similar experience, the good thing is that we've recognised it!
只有极少数地方吃狗肉猫肉。BTW，欧洲人也吃一些稀奇古怪的食物，为什么要歧视别人。
Can't wait for your tibetian adventures to be posted up!!! Its so encouraging to see and hear good news. Many thanks again Jerry, now hurry up wIth the next uploads 😂😂 just kidding
I have one I need to do about Xinjiang first, I also just got back from Guizhou with several articles written up to turn into videos, so about a week, maybe a little more before episode 2 is up, but it's in the pipeline already
Wow Jerry you’re so lucky to experience Tibet👌👍Thanks sharing your travel experiences 🙏 really lovely you debunking western stereotypes propaganda about Tibet & China👌👍🙏 look forward to your next video 🙏
Thanks for sharing, Looking forward to part 2&3!
Will be looking forward to seeing your future vids!
Look forward for the new stories 😊
What a truly amazing experience! Looking forward to seeing your Tibet videos
Thank you, Jerry.👍🇨🇳🙂🌏☮️🙏❗️
Thx Jerry for the adventure into Tibet very informative indeed
Looking forward for the episodes. Thanks
Thanks
Thank you very much Suzanne
Hi, jerry 👍⛽⛽⛽
I really look forward to your videos on Guizhou to see what it’s like now! When I visited there in 2015 with a tour I was told that it’s the second poorest province in China, though its natural beauty - the waterfalls and caves etc was second to none!
It's still a poor province Louise, one of the reasons for my trip was a poverty alleviation program about partnering cities. It's definitely not impoverished now, but I can see why it was so poor, the mountains, beautiful but impossible to cross without roads and trains, which they now have
@@jerrystakeonchina799感觉贵州需要靠旅游业扶贫。😊。西方人帮助落后国家发展这一点确实很赞。❤❤
I reckon one of the reasons why there are so many Chinese flags in Tibet is the Tibetans were (probably still are) extremely grateful of the arrival of the PLA/CPC. They kicked out Dalai 14th and his cronies and let the average people free.
Possibly, but I do think there is still some insecurity there on the part of the CPC, I don't blame them, they've had 70 years of Washington interference
@@jerrystakeonchina799你甚至可以追溯到古代中国，宗教超越国家总是会带来灾难。清朝时，陕西汉族几乎被伊斯兰教徒杀光。
中国人追求和而不同，各个宗教包括无神论者互不干涉。但绝不允许宗教控制政治。
Jerry, there is a million subscribed Aussie pair on YT traveled to Tibet and Xinjiang, released their videos in the past weeks, got pumped too much by the ABC perhaps, second time coming to China, still couldn't shake their heads off pride and prejudice, at their very young of ages, live like an old English member of the House of Lords.
There will always be people with different perceptions but if they're coming to Tibet and Xinjiang, it really doesn't matter what they say, the very fact that they are there proves it's open - I wonder how many followers I'd have if I was anti-China!!!
@@jerrystakeonchina799 I mentioned this because I was disgusted by they basically saying the Chinese government provide minor ethnics ways to live a modern life, people should respect those people's "traditional ways of living", which we know is slavery, I mean, did they even know what the heck were they talking about? Absolute ignorance!
Tnx for the video Jerry. I have been to the 3 big cities of Tibet. After my tour, I go around by myself. I notice that T1betan script can be use in W1chat. Also, going to CHN Post, I saw a newspaper in T1betan script. T1betan culture preserved.
That's true Martin, it's very hard to eliminate a script that's used everywhere
Guizhou?
HamburgerKing Jason 😂😂😂
Different part of the very large province, I have met him here in Zhongshan a couple of years ago, he's a nice guy
Isnt it the poorest Province - Autonomous Region of China?
I remember a story when China fought JPN, a group of orphan boys went to war on straw sandals and people asked them : why are you going to fight on straw sandals?
It will be winter soon, you will freeze.
The answer of the boys was : we will not be alive when winter comes.
I feel very sad, each time remembering this story.
I think it's true, there were a lot of people died during the long march and during the war of liberation. It is one of the poorest, for a while there it vied with Ningxia but it's definitely improving, there are many traces of poverty as we drive through we see poos famers working hard but the cities are much better than I expected
@@jerrystakeonchina799如果有可能你可以对比一下中国城乡差距，这是一个大问题。
Jerry, nice info on Tibet. You pronounced the six holy words very well. Tibet is one of the rare few provinces that I have not visited as Iwas worried about altitude illness. However, in May, I had a tour change from Guizhou to a place called Daochen Yading in Sichuan, without realising the altitudes can be higher than Tibet (one point was above 6,000m). Nice scenery but really need to carry handheld oxygen tanks, and still panting like crazy, haha. I will visit Guizhou, Mohe (aurora hopefully) and kekexili (Xinjiang,which I visited before) next year. China is too beautiful not to visit regularly.
I've been to much of Xinjiang, mostly on a bike and just returned from Guizhou where you're right, there are several parts which are higher than Lhasa, the highest I went to in Tibet was 7520m which was a pass, it was cold and damp but other than that, no problems for me at all
Hi Jerry, thank you again! another great video for my personal growth. If I ever run into you, I will buy the coffee or beer :)
Thanks Chris, I'l look forward to either
Have a good time Jerry
You earned it
Thank you, Jerry!
Very informative.
Thanks Jerry
Same reason they have leaders portraits in their house. It’s a traditional theological society where the leaders are spiritual leaders at the same time
Tibet is a special area, great to hear you visited there. The oxygen low may cause uncomfortable for most of travelers. I wish I could visit there in future!
I was ok with that, it wasn't really a problem for me other than a headache on the first night
Another truly refreshing video.
Thanks again
I am looking forward to see your coming videos. I can't go to there because I suffer altitude sickness whenever I go to the hills of Xichuen and Xinjiang. I have been in Urumqi, Tinchi (sky lake), Daocheng Yading. Very difficult time. "Eyes in Heaven but Head in the hell".
That must be very hard, I was lucky - I've been to all the other places you mention and just come back from Guizhou where, I was up at 4,700m one afternoon, all without any problems at all, so I really feel for you, it must be awful, I do consider myself to be very lucky, it was a thing I was worried about, fortunately, no concerns at all once there.
Top notch Jerry. Well done.
Awesome that you went there. I’d love to go there some day.
Thank you for your sharing
Very informative
Thanks Jerry
I remember back in 2006, in a community college public speaking class, we were asked to do a "persuasive" speech. It needed a "call to action" at the end. At the time, I was very interested in Buddhism, and of course that leads back to Tibet, and, being American, China and the "invasion". However, even at that time, when I started digging into it I started getting a bit confused about how facts lined up, and how things were worded, so I changed a little bit. Instead of "Help Free Tibet" I changed to "Think about it" and shared a bit of what I found. To this day, I doubt a single person in the class ever gave it a second thought, but it's been in the back of my head ever since. My memory isn't great, so I can't be sure of what didn't line up at the time, but I suspect it was all the traditional Western media propaganda (US propaganda at the core) getting in the way. I know exactly why they chose you among influencers, between your naturally calm demeanor, practical experience through riding around China, detailed researching and notetaking, and being a foreigner who moved there gives you credibility that you're genuinely happy with your life there. Getting the word out around China is good, but getting it out to the English-speaking world can eventually give a little breathing room to China if they don't have to fear everyone hating them for unjust reasons. Heck, I'd love to buy some cheaper (but quality) solar panels and a car, giving the government 7% extra and the bank 3% extra, but... Anyway, I'm glad you went, I'm glad you're sharing, and I can't wait until the next video. Keep up the excellent work!
Thanks Brandon, it's an honour to be slected and I hadn't given a thought to those reasons but I guess yo're right, I have a unique perspective and insight - interesting that you found discrepancies, I suspect every critical thinker in the world would find them, I'm happy that you did. :-))
Well said, thanks for sharing.
One of the reason you need a tour guide is because the language barriers with the locals as the older people cant understand english nor Chinese Mandarin. And the other reason you will need a local that is immune to latitude sickness as it can be very hazardous if you are travel to some place desolate and you got the latitude sickness. Other reason is to make a job opportunities to the locals as a tour guide.
All very true, the big one seems to be the altitude sickness, if that occurs in a rmeote region you would be in serious trouble, however, all the buses have a tank and small canisters of oxygen are available almost everywhere
Everything the CIA touched would turned into chaos, if not tragedy. It was why Lhasa had that hatred ethnic tension in the past. The old school noble turned monk class wanted to restore their privileges of old Tibet. Of course, New China will not let it happen.
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Manners, Jerry, manners.
Tibet was an English translation used a long time ago. The locals termed themselves Xizanger for many many years.
And I think Chinese government is catching on. Officially translating the area term from Tibet to Xizang.
No argument - when I was asked a few years ago to use this word, I said: when the government use it, I'll use it. Now they do
We locals call our home country "BOD" no one uses the coloniser name😂
@tsungmey;
Xizang, or bod is used by locals there.
Tibet is the name conqueror gave to those colonizer slave owners, like Dalai Lama and his cohorts.
Every since March 28th, 1959, the slavery emancipation has led to xizanger life spin increase from ~35 to 77 years of age.
No longer in-bonding slaves by Dalai Lama and cohorts, xizanger can have income to travel and feel free.
Are you a slave owner offsprings, still proudly display your past slave owner flag?
Local to Washington or local to Tibet???
Yeah, I’ve figured out that these “locals” are about as local as you or I.
With their English, I suspect some are indians and probably living in Arunachal Pradesh (occupied South Tibet).
I live in suburban Melbourne, Australia. Nearby is still an area of Market Gardens, I have seen a few Asian women working there. They still wear the broad brimmed Bamboo Hats, many still wearing traditional clothing
That is indeed very common around here too Colin. I don't think that's an ethnic culture thing, more of a sensible precaution against wind and rain
Thanks!
Thank you again Donat
@@jerrystakeonchina799 It's nothing but just a minute gesture of thanks from a retired senior. 🙂
What a coincidence? Am planning to visit Xizang in seven months’ time. Looking forward to your travelogue.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, it is an amazing place
Planning to visit Chunghwa Minkuo soon aswell friend😂
I don't speak Cantonese
Great video
Looking forward to your coming trip to Guizhou. If possible try to visit the interesting old town of Zhenyuan and some of the enthic minority villages which are some of the best in China
Unfortunately, I was limited to one city, Luipanshui, as it's partnered with Zhongshan for poverty alleviation purposes. But I do hope I can visit again, just never on a bike, the mountains are never ending!
Thanks Jerry! Looking forward to your next videos on Xizang (need to start getting used to the new term. Like switching from Peking to Beijing). Also thanks for the reminder to check the subscribe button - I just found out I was somehow "un-subscibed" !
Thanks Steve
I rather like the Middle Path, Xizang-Tibet as the compromise🤞
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The thing with lies is you might think you keep an open mind, but at the back of your mind you were already affected by them somehow; it's just a matter of degree, and your objectivity depends on your ability to recognize & hopefully overcome that.
For example, I watched a video recently by some RUclipsrs on their trip to Xinjiang, where the Western media had been telling us there was g___cide and - when that didn't really stick - cultural g___cide. Those RUclipsrs actually found the Xinjiang people happy, but they added: "Are they happy because of the change(s) or in spite of the change(s)?" Now I had previously seen them travel to different countries where they had also found the people happy, but Xinjiang was the only place they felt the need to question the reason for their happiness assuming there were some 'forced' changes in their lives that they didn't want.
That's the kind of bias that systematic lies do to you. Even when you find no evidence supporting the lies, you might still be harbouring doubts in the back of your mind.
All true Kevin, strangely, I didn't feel it so much in Xinjiang, probably because my first trip there was before the lies all started and even the BBC were reporting correctly on the terrorism, although not who was fermenting it!
A video on the real Tibet by a British guy to English-speaking audience is far more effective than one by a Chinese guy. With the 144-hour visa-free travel implementation, coupled with what you have been doing, I am confident more and more westerners will come to visit China. They will see the real China and help to share with their fellow countrymen how much they have been misinformed about China. Looking forward to follow your other videos on Tibet and also those on Guizhou. Well Jerry, I am now busy writing my observation and experience on my China trip.
Thanks James, I look forward to reading your final observations.
Of course, there are a lot of chinese flags in Tibet because it's a chinese province or autonomous region. You won't see plenty of Chinese flags in, e.g. New York. 😅
Haha u think Tibet belongs to you😂 wait a few years brother
Hi Jerry, did you get a chance to visit the serf museum? Now that’s something the western media cannot tell you about, nor deny its history.
No Vera, I didn't, I saw a museum of Tibetan history which included some information about it, but not a specific serf museum
The best way to kill off a language is to put the language on the national currency.
haha, yes!
How will that be effective if nobody understands what it says at the end of the day😂
Based in Washington are you Tsungmey - have you ever actually been to Xizang?
Hi, Jerry. I recently watched the documentary "The Coming War on China" by the late Australian journalist John Pilger. I was wondering if you had seen it, and, if so, what your thoughts were on it?
i need to watch that!!! ive been meaning to watch that for years... a good watch? enlightening? what did you think about it?
do you think its the same war? do you think China will entertain a war with the US.... IMO China is in full control of whether to have war or initiate or partake in a war with the West!
in fact IMO China and the West are currently in a war and China is in full control and also winning that war!! and it also has consequences for that hot war people think about hence China is in control of it and the fate of the worlds destiny and im optimistic that everything is in favour of China....
Well it seems the US is another day another war with someone else..... Iran is now likely on the cards... and if Ukraine reach out to China for a peace solution then its all over for Western credibility if it hasnt already been for years...,
US is biting off waaaay more than it can chew..... hence this coming war with China may be a nonstarter!
China will be waaaay too powerful geopolitically, militarily and economically by the time the US and the West finish whats on their plate
I've seen it and recommend everyone else does too - it exposes the US for what they are
When you find out there are Tibetans living in other parts of China (thanks Yan @littlechineseeverywhere), next to other minorities, and then even more interesting is when you find these minorities have taken on Tibetan culture in their clothes, religion and food, but have retained some of their own culture...and this happened over centuries. I wonder what you would call this? Cultural genocide, imperialism, colonisation by Tibetans?
The idea of culture and ppl being hermetically sealed off from time, history, and other groups of ppl is a concept so false and misguided, I have to seriously question the logic of anyone trying to use it to criticise what is essentially being human. How did the Tibetans become Buddhist in the first place?
My take on these guided tours is that it's more an issue of presentation/form rather than content. There does seem to be an almost unaware naivety in the media language the Chinese have developed. You've mentioned this in your videos Jerry, about how straight forward and frankly boring Chinese media is. When I started to look at the way ppl expressed themselves, the form of how things were presented, it became obvious this was an issue of form. Unfortunately, this has opened the door to misunderstanding, misrepresentation, distortion, and propaganda from the West, who are the absolute masters of media soft sell - the best propaganda is when you don't realise it's propaganda.
Wanting to show the best of what you have is universal and you find this practiced anywhere in the West. But the particularly straight forward and literal way it's done in China does comes across as blunt and rather unsophisticated. In many ways, this could be seen as a positive, because it's so obvious and open. But I do think they need to at least cultivate a more sophisticated understanding of form and presentation, and how this is received by different ppl and cultures.
Thanks Jerry, this is the open and reflexive perspective I've come to really appreciate from you. 👍
Very true Walkingsideways, the Tibetan Plain is much larger than the Xizang Region, which is why the government has decided to change it, it's actually confusing to use the word Tibet, or Tibetan because it encompasses a people and a region that is so large, Sichuan and Qinghai, as well as Yunnan all have large Tibetan populations too
Thanks for the video. Are there any western documentaries on what Tibet was like before China annexed it? Much of the content is from Chinese sources. There seems little western interest in Tibet in feudal times.
True that, the only things that have any reflection of Tibetan history are from people like Richard Gere and Brad Pitt, neither of whom have ever visited Tibet but both of whom have visited the Dalai Lama
jerry please visit a few boarding schools in outskirts or countryside of Lhasa 👌
I visited the Buddhist University, but it was school holidays, so I wasn't able to visit schools, perhaps next time.
However I did chat with a Tibetan guy in a village 2 hours drive from Linzhi, he told me it used to take 2 weeks for him to get to high school so he stayed there all year and only came home for the long holiday, not even for CNY as the trip was too far, it's now only 2 hours by road but the path goes to over 5,700 metres
@@jerrystakeonchina799thanks Jerry and hope soon you will be able to visit those Boarding Schools which has been one of the Hot Spots since few years. The truth must be judged on its ground level👌
Daniel Dumbrill visited some of those places a couple of years ago with Jing Jing Li
Understand exactly your feelings. You want to verify that whether what the MSM claims has some truth in them. Perhaps they know something that I don’t so you look harder.
It’s sad that you have to constantly remind your subscribers to check that they’re still subscribed. But I know that is necessary as I’ve been unsubscribed all the time and have to almost resubscribe every time I watch one of your new videos. So much for free speech!
I guess Google, which owns YT and the CIA, which owns America, don't want my messages out there all the time - I often wake up in the morning with less followers than I had the day before, by the time I go to bed it's up again but then the next morning it's either not grown, or decreased slightly, it's two steps forward and one step back every time
Bravo, people need to believe based on what they see and hear, and not strictly from third-person interpretation. Why some people don't believe in themselves that they are capable of attesting to things, and to deter where the truth lies? Perhaps, that's why Evangelical churches in the US can fill a concert hall with believers every Sunday, and makes their head pastors billionaire. Yet, they find that is OK.
I’d like to take the same trip, would be budget and travel agency contacts?
Honestly I have no idea, I made the trip with a media group at the expense of the Xizang Information office - I thought I made that clear, sorry if it wasn't
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As a contrast to your experience, we just came from a trip to Mt Whitney, the highest place in the lower 48 states. We saw no native people there, not a single one. We all know what had happened to them after the genocidal expansion of the white. - how is my NYT/BBC style writing? 😂
You'd do well with the BBC, if only you change the word State to Province :-))
Tibetans go about the country wearing their ethnic clothing. I'd say as far as cultural identity goes, Tibetan is the most intact. There's even a monestry complex in Xining where you don't get to see one single starred red flag flying prominently (like it would in a church or a mosque or a buddhist temple).
I saw plenty of Chinese flags in Tibet and each monatary had them but, I can't remember seeing one at the Potala Palace, I wasn't paying attention so I might have missed it but I don't remember it
@@jerrystakeonchina799 interesting observation. Maybe the important ones enjoy certain privileges
@@jerrystakeonchina799maybe because of old eyesight😂 theres literally one big Chinese flag on top of the palace
That may be so, but I entered from the back door and still haven't been to the front - it's not a big deal, Tibet, Bod, or Xizang, whatever you want to call it is part of China - you shold visit sometime, you might like it
How is it going?! Omg!amazing ~be ewll-
Jerry, if you can, can you pls do a video on the bias and accusations against the Chinese athletes, especially Pan Zhanle?
I've done one, it will be loaded in the next few minutes - in fact, it has just finished loading while I've been answering these comments, if you go there now, you'll find it - it's not specifically about Pan, he's actually 100% clear of drugs, never been involed or caught and is completly clean, it's more about how the US cheats its way through everything
@@jerrystakeonchina799 You’re the best, Jerry! Thank you!❤
Hi Jerry,
Would you say the real intent behind the US Congress recently passed Tibet Act is to create a new map to split up China or to motivate India into seizing more and larger border areas from China with the full backing of the US military might should China resist the Indian landgrabbibg exercise?
Despite what Washington says and does, the Chinese and Indians are discussing a resolution and will not stop until one is reached. Tibet, according to the Dalai Lama, the United Nations and officially the US State Department is part of China. There's nothing more to discuss about it
Officially Xizang, okay, I’ll bite.
If any aussie calls it, tibet. I’ll call Australia, “biik”, “uthuru”, “kurrek”, “barna”, or any of those old names for the “new holland”.
Good idea. The fact is, Tibet has never been its name in either Tibet or China, it's only the name used when speaking English, so there's a little confusion - another example is Hong Kon, or Macau, if I ever mention either of those places in either Mandarin or Cantonese (another example there, Putonghua or Guoyu and Guangdonghua) no one will know what I’m talking about Hong Kong is a derivative of the Cantonese way of saying Xiang gang, which means perfumed port. I wonder if that will ever change, Macau I'm not so sure about as I've looked into it but it's known as Ao Men here meaning Bay of Ama, the goddess who helped seafarers.
No one in China ever calls them Hong Kong or Macau, unless they're speaking English, so if they ever change, it won't be an erasure of history, it will be a correction from a 150 and now nearly 200 year aberration
Yeah okay.
Guoyu was congressionally voted in as Chinese national language, from court language, 700-800 years of history. Dr Sun Yatsen, a Cantonese, cast the deciding vote for it.
My Chinese friend, a Manchurian, told me his ancestors figured out, to conquer han China was easily done going through one dialect at a time.
I think Japanese found that out as well, pitting people of one dialect against another.
Chinese, KMT or CPC, experienced the dialectic divisiveness throughout ww2. They couldn’t wait to push mandarin to all parts of China, to nowadays.
I think CPC calls it Putonghua for “face” reason. I mean, they don’t use “guo”flag, guo military, guo song,,, when these are different. But, guoyu and putonghua are exactly the same. Why not just call mandarin guoyu?
There are absolutely no schools where the Tibetan language is not being taught anymore?
In Tibet, no - all kids there learn it, but it's not a tested subject, the normal college entry exam is called the Gaokao, it includes English but not Tibetan - Daniel Dumbril proved this by asking a student to explain a science project in Tibetan, the student did a great job, 100 unscripted
Is there any plans for making it easier for foreigners to go to Tibet? Like Xinjiang, show to the world how it really is.
Probably not, there are two reasons, one is a genuine fear that foreigners could get into trouble with altitude sickness and not having a tour guide could lead to serious complications, even death, the other is that the CIA have been causing problems over the region for more than 70 years, so it's not in China's interest to allow foreigners into the region without keeping an eye on them
Is the new policy of "15 Days Visa Free " applicable to TAR and some Exiled-Tibetans did manage to travel on that new visa policy.🤔
I'm really not sure, I think it takes longer than 15 days to get approval to go to Tibet, i've never gone as a normal traveller, I went as part of this media group and, while I really loved it, I have to say, I was treated differently to how I would have been trated if my wife and I had decided to holiday there
I actually find it's mental to love their country's flag too much. Like hug it, kiss it, make it into underwear, all those things sound disgusting and really maniac.
I believe it's not legal to turn the Chinese flag into clothing, it can be placed on clothing in the form of a badge but not worn as clothing, that would be disrepectful and, the only person I've ever seen doing it was a foreigner wearing a T short with the five stars across his left breast, my wife was upset, I dread to think what people who didn't know him thought!
@@jerrystakeonchina799 oh yes, I'm talking about some "united" country who 80% of the citizens worry about a civil war after the coming election who happen claim themselves "democracy".