I am a Tibetan born in India and came to new york five years ago. When people ask me "Where you from?" I respond to them "I am from India". They look at me baffled because i don't look Indian so i explain it to them I am a Tibetan who was born and raised in India. I like to stay home and watch movies during my leisure hours. I am not very active on social networking. I don't have a twitter, instagram but I do have facebook which I visit once a month or less. I used to love social networking when i first came here. I was going on my facebook everyday, posting pictures but after a year i got tired of it. So, now I am not a very active user. I do go out sometimes when I have to meet up with my friends. I am very sensitive when it to comes to my family and friends. My family is my world to me. I have a two younger sister who I am very protective about that sometimes we get into fights as I can be very controlling at times.
I want to bear witness to.....
If there is one thing i want to bear witness to is the independence of Tibet. It has been almost 55 years since we were conquered by the Chinese government in March 10, 1959. But there was never any progress between the relationship between Chinese and the Tibetan. They continue to deny our independence and threat other countries like United States who are trying to help us. In addition, the Chinese government disapprove the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Barack Obama in 2010, 2011 and 2014 respectively. They warned the president that this could damage the ties between China and United States. They also stated that the United States should not interfere with the internal affairs of China. However President Obama still met with him. However, after the visitations, nothing really changed. The exploitation of human rights in Tibet are not getting any better. Many Tibetans are still dying from the brutalities of Chinese government. The Beijing Crackdown in 2008 which led to Tibet's unrests resulted in 140 casualties and around 2,300 Tibetans were arrested. In addition the Chinese government had blocked off all the supply of water, electricity, food and health facilities in the active area of riot. Many Tibetans died. Still to this day, the Tibetans living in Tibet are being brutally killed in Tibet yet the United Nations are doing nothing despite all the petition we signed for them because Chinese government are becoming very powerful. I wish before I die I could bear witness to a "Free Tibet" and all Tibetans marching back to Tibet with our national flags and singing our national anthem.
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