In China, enhancing patriotic sentiments through patriotic education is seen by the Chinese Communist party as the means to achieve the “Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” In the New Era of Xi Jinping, the core attempt of the communist party of China to build a community with a shared Chinese culture and shared
values of socialism with Chinese characteristics is underway. The process of the systematic sinicisation of minority nationalities residing in the People’s Republic of China, such as the Tibetans, includes restrictions on the use of intangible aspects of the minorities’ culture such as language and religion and the nationalisation of its tangible features, ideological (re)education, and overall control of all aspects of people’s everyday life. The contemporary
state attempts at sinicisation are not only not inclusive, but instead even contribute to the further marginalisation of non-Han populations. This paper looks into ways of the “sinicisation of mind”, which aims at a forceful assimilation of the Tibetans into an envisioned “Chinese” society compliant to the will of the ruling Communist Party of China.
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