Visitors to Tibet find high awareness of culture

He said that in most countries, when development comes, traditional culture and language tend to be diminished. When people come in, they lose the way they dress and the way they prepare food.

"Now there is a modern way to do it, but they continue their traditional way of heating the house, and they maintain their traditional dress. These are things that can be lost easily during development processes," he said after visiting many communities.

Adham Sayed, a Lebanese researcher at the Institute of East Asian Studies at Zhejiang Gongshang University, also hailed the preservation of Tibetan culture in the region.

Adham said he had a lot of misinformation about the region from Western and American media in the past.

"It's an amazing place where the culture is still alive. You can see the Tibetan language everywhere, and you can see people wearing Tibetan clothes. I saw people in the temple praying and learning their culture," he said.

Adham said by visiting Tibet University, he learned more about Tibetan culture and how the language continues.

"We saw in the schools that they still teach this language. Students read and write very well in their native tongue," he said.