Tibet and the (MIS-) representation of cultural genocide

Ideologues of all stripes elaborate myths in order to mobilize a following. Nationalists, however, often openly eschew intellectual integrity in justifying their mythmaking. A leading proponent of liberal nationalism contends that if nationalist myths suppress what is negative in the history of a nation, they do so to facilitate moralizing that encourages its members to live up to ancestral virtues.² A conservative defender of nationalism argues that even deliberate falsehoods should be condoned where mythmaking is essential to a merited nationalist project.³.