Month: November 2017

Tibet was taken over by China in the late 1950s, and ever since then, we’ve become a minority on our own land. They stripped us from the right to pray, and the right to free speech. One of the main reasons China wants control over Tibet is to take advantage of our r resources. Tibet has a lot of mountains, minerals, and fresh water. China doesn’t want Tibetans to practice their religion (Tibetan Buddhism), and therefore destroy monasteries. They don’t want the Tibetan culture to stay alive so they force Tibetans to speak anything but Chinese Mandarin in schools. Looking at the oppression Tibetans face in China, I wanted to portray that in my political drawing. My first sketch shows a big machine that is digging in the ground. This represents all the resources that China is depleting in Tibet. Another sketch shows a girl with prayer flags as hair, but her mouth is covered with Chinese flags to represent the restriction of free speech, etc.