Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2003)

Re:Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2003) by ginko on Friday June 19, 2020 @07:57AM (#23573440)

My guess is that an independent Tibet would have developed at about the same pace as neighboring Bhutan, which abolished slavery in 1958 and turned into a constitutional monarchy in 2005.

There are still human rights issues in Bhutan, but it's a far cry from where they were 70 years ago.

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Re:Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2003) by trasz on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:43AM (#23573898)

Okay. Is there some comparison of living conditions between modern day Bhutan and Tibet?

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Re:Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2003) by ginko on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:59AM (#23574039)

I guess such comparisons are hard to make and bound to be subjective.

According to [1] Bhutan's HDI was 6.17 in 2018, while according to [2] the regional HDI of Tibet was 5.85. So at the very least they're not particularly far apart from each other.

[1] http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/BTN

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_administrative_divisio...

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