Comments by "Good Citizen" (@GoodCitizen-gm1tl) on "CGTN" channel.

  1. if you have a middle school diploma, you should have known what hydrogen is.
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  2. China has stopped using the word Tibet, which is a British colonial name and adopted Xizang, the Chinese name for the region in English-language publications these days. Xizang literally means "Western treasure" in Chinese, which has been the official name for the region since 1727. In the Yuan and the Ming dynasties (The region was annexed into China during the Yuan dynasty in the 1200s), the region was called Wusizang in Chinese, a transliteration of "dbus gtsang", the local name for the region. In the Qing dynasty, when the region was under China's full administration, the Qing court took the "Zang" part from the older Chinese name Wusizang and add "Western" (or "Xi") to form Xizang. Gtsang is from the local language but the Chinese character for Zang happens to mean "treasure", so the name Xizang became literally ‘Western treasure" in Chinese. It's a name with a combination of both Han Chinese and the local-language parts. Xizang has been used in China as the name for the reigion since 1727. The British tried to steal the region from the Qing-dynasty China and incorporate it into British India by invading it twice in 1888 and 1903 but failed, at the same time Russia was also encroaching into the region from the North ( by invading Xinjiang, China) and West ( by invading Afghanistan), the British therefore decided to leave Tibet as a buffer zone. China successfully expelled the Russians from Xinjiang later and kept Xizang as well.
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  3. If Tibet/Xizang were not a part of China, it would have been a part of India today. There were no way that it would remain an independent nation on its own. The British invaded it twice in 1888 and in 1903-1904 in attempt to annex it into British India but failed due to Qing China's defense. Russia was trying to encroach into the region at the same time so the British kept Xizang(Tibet) as a buffer zone. China later kicked out the Russians from Xinjiang, a region in the north of Xizang. The Sikkim Kingdom in the south was closely linked to Xizang in terms of ethnicity and culture but China didn't defend it as it was not a part of China and it fell into British hands and now it is a part of India. Had Xizang not been defended by China at that time, it would have been a part of India today as well. So no matter what, Xizang couldn't have been an independent nation by itself. Even today, India still has the unrealistic dream of annexing Xizang into its territory. They had several clashes with the Chinese military in the border in Xizang and the two sides even fought a war in 1962, in which China registered a landslide win.
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  4. Most of us in China learn English in schools and forget most of them after graduation, because if a language isn't being used in real life, it gets rusty in your brain and later you forget them. In China, English isn't being used in real life if you are not an English teacher or involved in international trade or affairs. Chinese people use Mandarin in real life and may speak their hometown dialects with their families or hometown fellows (most of these dialects are near-Mandarin and are largely mutually intelligible. However some eastern and southern dialects are way different and are not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, like Cantonese, Hokkien, Shanghaiese and others, but their native speakers can always choose to speak Mandarin as it is the only lingua franca in China)
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  5.  @covertpuppytwo3857  actually the salaries and living costs in Tibet are higher than in most of Han Chinese provinces despite the extreme terrain and climate hardships (even grasses cannot grow in most parts of Tibet) because the Chinese govt threw tons after tons of cash into Tibet for assistance and development in the forms of infrastructure builds, education, jobs and everything. Most of the Tibetans just chant Buddhist mantra all day and seldom work, sometimes they may just sell some souvenirs and raise some yaks which they sell at robbery prices, but they are living a good subsidized life. Meanwhile we Han Chinese break our backs to work so hard all day long to earn a better life for ourselves. Minorities in China also have the priority in admission to good universities, as their Gaokao results will accomodate a minority bonus score (pretty large), which the Han Chinese majority don't have, as a result, they leverage a higher chance to be admitted by a good university in China. Due to the ferocious competition in the Gaokao exam, some parents even changed their ethnicity from Han Chinese to some ethnic minorities secretly to give their kids an upper hand in the Gaokao exam but of course this is illegal.
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  6. Most of us in China learn English as a mandatory subject in schools and tend to forget most of them some time after graduation, because if a language isn't being used in real life, it gets rusty in your brain and later you forget them. In China, English isn't being used in real life if you are not an English teacher or involved in international trades or affairs. Chinese people use Mandarin in real life and may speak their hometown dialects with their families or hometown fellows (most of these dialects are near-Mandarin and are largely mutually intelligible. However some eastern and southern dialects are way different and are not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, like Cantonese, Hokkien, Shanghaiese and others, but their native speakers can always choose to speak Mandarin as it is the only lingua franca in China). As urbanization is rapidly ongoing in China, many dialects are disappearing because the rural residents, when moved into cities, lost their linguistic enviornment for their dialects and have to speak Mandarin with others, their children grow up by speaking only Mandarin.
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