Reading Drudge this morning, and China is back in his news, but we’re back to news about Tibet.

There are people in China who are marginalized, and some Western writers have romanticized these people to the point that they are romanticized in much of Western culture. There are people in the United States who are marginalized, but they aren’t romanticized in the same way, for better or for worse. But, these marginalized people are a minority in China. The majority in China is not Tibetan. If the United States can act in such a way as to benefit the majority of the Chinese people, this Chinese majority will start to take note of their own minorities, and the United States will not feel such paternalism about Tibet, except because of the romantic aspects of the region.

The majority of Chinese people are not Tibetan, but there are issues that plauge the majority of Chinese people, too. Environmental conservation benefits all of these people–Tibetans, too. In fact, it was near Tibet that I first took note and fell in love with China’s environment.