Modern day Lhasa is not a patch on what you thought Tibet looks like!

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Lhasa today looks nothing like it did many years ago. That’s no fault of the Tibetans of course. After the Chinese occupation started in 1949, they quickly set about to move Tibet a “great step forward” or whatever their definition of forward was... Yes, there are modern conveniences like paved roads, plumbing, electricity, motorized vehicles, electronics, mobiles phones and the like, but it can be safely assumed that an independent Tibet would’ve eventually adopted many of these things if they wanted to. Today, Lhasa has the feel of a modern Chinese city. The infrastructure is unmistakably Chinese, but the majority of the people are unmistakably Tibetan. The way they dress, look, and act is so different from Han Chinese that it’s very easy to differentiate who’s who. Source: modernlhasa T