Figure 1.--Tibetans know how to dress warm and learned how to toe the party line. Here we see Tibetins including many children, probably during the Chinese cultural Revolution of the 1960s. Tibet with a population of only 1 million people was overwhelmed by the massive Chinese military invasion (1959). Notice the framed portraits of Mao. Under Chinese Communist (CCP) control Tibetan culture has been suppressed, but not the Tibetan population. Tibet is a rare area of China with a growing population. The population has increased to nearly 4 million people. In contrast, thanks to the genius of the CCP, the Chinese population is now crashing leaving the future of the Han ethnicity in question. Tibet is a rare area of China with a growing population. Some of it has been the migration of Han Chinese, part of the CCP's Sinicization policy. Most of the substantial growth, however, has been ethnic Tibetan -- especially outside the major cities.

Tibet is homeland of the Tibetan people. Few countries in our modern world have such concentrated ethnicity. The Tibetan gene pool is from modern humans who diverged from Han Chinese some 15,000–9,000 years ago. This basically means Han Chinese seeking land and resources moved up the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers into the Tibetan highlands. Modern Tibetans have descended from from these ancient Tibetan Highlanders (East Asian Highlanders). In DNA terms this means associated with haplogroup D1--native to the Tibetan Plateau and a region up to the southern Altai Mountains, and from East Asian lowland farmers expanding from the Yellow River. Haplogroup D is one of the four major East-Eurasian lineages (next to O, C and N). Haplogroup D ominates the has its highest frequency in Tibeto-Burmese speaking populations. The the greatest diversity found in modern Tibetans (western Tibet). In addition to ethnic Tibetans, there ae aso the Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas. Before te advent of DNA science, language groupings was commonly used to decipher human origins. Both Tibetan and Burmese are considered part of the Sino-Tibetan language family, meaning that there is a common ancestor or mother tongue. The concentrated ethnicity their isolated mountain redoubt perhaps explains why Tibetans traditionally have practiced the same religion, and speak the same language. In modern times substantial numbers of Han Chinese and Hui people, a largely Muslim group from western China, settled in Tibet. During the era of British influence, many Han Chinese were expelled. China invaded Tibet (1959). This was when the Dali Llama fled to India. Under Chinese Communist (CCP) control Tibetan culture has been suppressed, but not the Tibetan population. Tibet is a rare area of China with a growing population. The population has increased to nearly 4 million people. In contrast, thanks to the genius of the CCP, the Chinese population is now crashing leaving the future of the Han ethnicity in question. Tibet is a rare area of China with a growing population. Some of it has been the migration of Han Chinese, part of the CCP's Sinicization policy. Most of the substantial population growth, however, has been ethnic Tibetan -- especially outside the major cities.

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