Unrest is increasing in Tibet where young people have a hard time finding employment without the right connection. Things are worse for those who lack fluency in Chinese.

Dharamsala (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Tibetan youths seeking jobs inside Tibet are increasingly frustrated by a system that depends on making the right connections and learning Mandarin Chinese. Increasingly new graduates fail to find employment after school—when they do land a post it is usually unrelated to their field of studies.

One consequence is that a high proportion of young Tibetans are discouraged with the rigid Chinese education system and prefer to flee Chinese rule into neighbouring countries, especially India and Nepal, hoping to further their studies

Tibetan youths also leave their Chinese-run homeland because China isn’t the multicultural state it claims to be. Government and public institutions are run by Chinese, are perceived as Chinese and resented as Chinese.

For Tibet experts, upward mobility and secure positions are more and more dependent on learning Chinese. Tibetan is less and less relevant to get a position.

Advocacy group Human Rights Watch also released a report on June 10 saying that the Chinese government has begun to forcibly relocate Tibetan herders to urban areas and farmland, seizing their herds and moving them into “newly built housing colonies without consultation or compensation.”

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