Shangri-la was a Western Myth! A Fiction! Why?


	Shangri-la was a Western Myth! A Fiction! Why?

righthand

4-20-2008 3:02 PM

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bhutan, asia, history, election, terrorists

righthand says:

Behind the myth was an awful truth of massive ethnic cleansing!

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4-20-2008 3:21 PM

abailart

<<<A recent report by the Norwegian Refugee Council blames the world's media for helping 'perpetuate the myth of an exotic land of happiness. However, what we have before us is a silent tragedy occurring in a media-created Shangri-la.'>>>

Media creations? Myths? How unusual.

4-21-2008 8:42 PM

oldbogus

Kinda like our own nativist faction wants something similar for the USA.

4-24-2008 1:06 AM

citizenbfk

& the clip says: "American interference in the region."

Humm...Maybe the Yanks were importing John Wayne flicks?

Or did Hillary threatend to nuke China if the Maoist won the elections (like she recently declared her itchy trigger finger ready to nuke, 'obliterate,' Iran)

Humm...the world is not at peace.

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