"Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland"
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The real engine here is “our great motherland.” That possessive “our” doesn’t invite Tibetans into a shared “we” so much as pre-empt disagreement by defining the relationship as already settled. “Motherland” is familial rhetoric: it turns sovereignty into kinship, and dissent into something emotionally suspect, like betraying a parent. Add “great” and you get the familiar cadence of nationalist affirmation, a verbal flag planted in the middle of what’s presented as praise.
Context matters because Tibet is rarely discussed in neutral terms inside official Chinese discourse; it’s a high-sensitivity subject where language is policy. This phrasing signals a line: Tibet is not contested territory or a distinct nation; it is a “region” - administrative, manageable, integrable. The intent is to normalize ownership, reframe attention toward development, and make the moral question of self-determination disappear behind the pleasant certainty of a landscape description.
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"Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/tibet-is-a-beautiful-and-richly-endowed-region-of-67145/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.





