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July 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Mr Chen rejected claims that developing China’s western region posed a threat to traditional Tibetan culture.
“If Han [Chinese] culture is a form of invasion what about the intrusion of US culture in China, from Disney to hamburgers? Is this also a form of cultural genocide?”
The announcement of plans for the theme park comes at a time of increasing instability in Tibetan areas of west China, where campaigners say more than 40 Tibetans have self-immolated over the last 18 months.
Last week London-based campaigning group Free Tibet claimed there had been a “heavy security crackdown” in Damshung county, near Lhasa, after a 22-year-old Tibetan man set himself on fire in protest against the Chinese government.
Stephanie Brigden, Free Tibet’s director, said the “Disneyfication of Tibet” through mass tourism projects would do little to improve the situation.
“We are not opposed to development per se but this type of [large-scale] tourism will not benefit Tibetans and will actually further marginalise [them]. Any kind of development within Tibet has to be inclusive of an informed by the opinions of Tibetans.”
“[The government] believes that economic growth is the way to secure harmony [but] economic growth in itself does not bring harmony,” she added.
Mr Chen said it was “increasingly impossible that a bulwark can be erected to “protect” the Tibetan culture from external impact.” “[Whether] Western observers like it or not, the younger generations in Tibet are already making changes to their traditions. They speak Tibetan, and they also browse web pages in Chinese and English. They join in family religious ceremonies, and they also visit nightclubs.
“Tibetan culture is also evolving along a common road that many cultures have already experienced.”
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