History And Culture: Tibet In Song

My inspiration and therefore case for my History and Culture essay was the documentary I have seen 2 months ago. Documentary’s name is Tibet in Song. This documentary was released in 2009 by former Tibetan prisoner and musician Ngawang Choephel – he was in prison because of making that document.

Little introduction about movie:

The movie is basically the document about Tibetan culture and traditions. Movie is based on interviews with Tibetan artists, musicians, activists and director himself. His aim was to show, how China wants to erase the Tibetan culture, force their culture and how China treats people in Tibet, so as the whole country. Movie is full of beautiful traditional songs, pictures of Tibet, so as the surroundings and people in the country.

I find it interesting because as European, I do not know much about this area and problem that has been held between those two countries. Moreover, I think that the history subjects in central Europe are more specialized in European history, with the little “taste” of US history. Therefore, I find this essay also helpful for me to expand my general knowledge about “what is going on in the world”.

Even the movie is more about art/culture/traditions, we can find many scenes and facts from political point of view and as the China is trying to push their own values, we can also observe many signs of globalization with power relations, thus I have chosen question number 1 and I want to talk a bit about it, as this is very broad topic and it cannot be contained in such a small space of 3-5 pages.

I would like to talk about this case and documentary from both sides – cultural and historical, because if we want to understand the “whole” we must not leave out any of those sides. Moreov...

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...art of nation, and we have “voice” to say NO and keep our traditions and identity, unfortunately, in this era many people are inveiglement with the idea of “western” globalization, so it is unique that Tibet has still people that are proud of their traditions, music, lyrics… The bad thing is that Tibet does not have more power to resist army and government of China; therefore it is hard to defend the identity and defend the nation and culture against the globalization from their side. As the world is going on in this era of postmodernity, it will be even harder and harder to resist the influence of globalization (or at some point Americanization), it is never-ending process that is going back and forth. Situation with Tibet and China can be found with tiny variations in different places in the world, let’s see the conflict of Ukraine and Russia, Middle East states….