So I’ve been watching a YouTube channel called Little Chinese Everywhere. It’s a Chinese woman who travels to all different regions of the country. Her videos on minority regions have been amazing, and demonstrate what socialist national liberation looks like in practice. In this video, she goes to a Tibetan city where, for four to six months of the year, the Tibetans leave the city and “play in the grasslands” - long extended summers spent entirely living in the traditional way, but without dependence on subsistence pastoralism. It ends up being a months-long social and cultural festival where all of their traditional lifeways thrive. Then, when the weather turns, they to back to the city and live a modern Chinese urban life (but still thoroughly Tibetan). Tons of her videos show this thriving of non-Han nations with autonomy over their land, lives, and development. It’s genuinely moving stuff, and it seems like an excellent model for a socialist post-US and its native nations.
lots to love in this video but a funny thing happened when I first saw it.
during the horse race section when she’s sitting up front we see police officers lining the route ahead of the crowd. this stood out to me because there have been very few police officers visible in her videos. very soon we see a rider go off course and a bunch of the cops stand up and wave him away from the crowd. they’re there for obviously necessary public safety! American cops claim to do this but It’s hard to imagine seeing them do the same thing.