July 4, 2008
A photojournalist sent me photographs of a trip he made to Lhasa just before the March riots. What is it like to be a minority in your own country? What is it like to walk down the streets of your capital with the signs written in a foreign language? What is it like not to be able to protest without fear of imprisonment or worse? What is it like to have the center of your faith diminished by open prostitution? How does it feel to be on the outside looking in? We Americans take so much for granted. 
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