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Last month thousands of Tibetan students took to the streets to protest the Chinese Government\u2019s decision to make all elementary and high school education in the official Chinese language, Mandarin.\u00a0 China has recently mandated that all children go through grade 9 and has plans to increase it to grade 12 soon.\u00a0 If Tibetan Nomads fail to send their children to school they get fined.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Tsering, age 10, studying math at boarding school for nomadic children<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

To be fair the Chinese government is not alone in wanting to standardize the language of its citizens.\u00a0 We have our own debates about bilingual education and we have a history of brutally forcing Native Americans not to speak their native languages.\u00a0\u00a0 Then there is the issue of postgraduate education. If Tibetan students do not speak fluent Mandarin it will be virtually impossible for them to pursue an advanced degree.<\/p>\n

According to Ken Hale, a professor of linguistics at MIT, there are 6,000 languages spoken on earth today and 3,000 are not spoken by the children.\u00a0 Every two weeks another elder goes to the grave carrying the last spoken word of an entire culture.\u00a0 When the language dies the culture dies.\u00a0 This is a silent extinction in that we scarcely hear about it in the media.\u00a0 It is our cultural diversity that gives our species its resiliency, creativity and strength.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Nomad children at boarding school<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

If you spend anytime with the Tibetans you will most likely realize, like I have,
\nwhat a special culture they have.\u00a0 I have never been with a people that return a smile and laugh as readily as they do–having a cultural tradition and devotion grounded in compassion shows.\u00a0\u00a0 If there was ever a good argument for a solid bilingual educational curriculum this is it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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