‘An Honorary Tibetan’ - Medium

Demonstrations in Lhasa, Tibet (1987). Photo by John Ackerly

March 5, 2018

By Kara Westerman

“There are strong parallels between the American genocide of Native Americans and what’s going on in Tibet right now,” says Dr. Blake Kerr. “The Chinese look at the Tibetans like animals. Racism is the root of it. It’s two cultures that are colliding and one culture feels superior, exactly the way Europeans treated Native Americans — they used to shoot the Indians like they were on a hunt…”