Tibetan Racism
In the frontier districts of Sichuan, and other ethnic Tibetan areas in China, many people are of mixed Chinese-Tibetans ethnicity. These half-Chinese, half-Tibetans were despised by pure Tibetans.
Ethnic Tibetan Muslims (called Kache in Tibetan) have lived peacefully alongside Tibetan Buddhists for over a thousand years, because Buddhist Tibetans are prohibited by their religion from killing animals, yet require meat to survive in their mountain climate. However, Tibetans have severe problems with Chinese muslims (called Kyangsha in Tibetan).
In history, Tibetans and Mongols refused to allow other ethnic groups such as Kazakhs to participate in the Kokonur ceremony in Qinghai, until the Muslim General Ma Bufang urged to stop the practice.
Read more about this topic: Ethnic Issues In The People's Republic Of China
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