U.N. Experts Alarmed by China's Treatment of 1 Million Tibetan Children

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4. It's perpetual.

The Middle East was predominantly Xian and Greek speaking until the Islamic conquest. Conversion was optional for a while, then if you don't convert there were implicit penalties.

Same for Xianity.

The Tepa are gone. Probably assimilated by Apaches, or forced out of their lands and assimilated elsewhere. Or killed.

The French did it in the 1800s. All the regional variants of French were pretty much killed off, even in pais d'oc and Bretagne.

Bantu languages wiped out the previous languages as they spread from Cameroon or thereabouts.

As for the process--it's a natural process. It's what happens.

As for religion proselytizing--or any other kind of cultural shift--if it's voluntary, that's fine. People may experience social pressure, but it's peer-to-peer and not top-down. But if it's required then it's liberty denied, even if a democratic majority want it (because liberty matters, and democracy is the best means to ensuring it, but when it's a mob its detrimental to the goal). And it's liberty denied whether you're forcing a population to accept new cultural norms for jobs or trade or courts or schools.