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Cultural Intelligence · Communities
Describe the exile history, resettlement, faith, language and naming practices of Tibetan Minnesotans, and use that context to ask better questions in DHS work.
About 48 minutes, plus optional practice · 4 lessons · Voluntary learning
Summarize the exile history that shaped the Tibetan diaspora.
Describe the role of Tibetan Buddhism in community life while recognizing individual variation.
Explain common features of Tibetan names that affect records and forms.
Identify service barriers that can affect Tibetan Minnesotans.
Find out how your unit requests telephone or video interpreters for less common languages, including Tibetan, and how long it takes. Save the steps where your team can find them.
Describe the exile history, resettlement, faith, language and naming practices of Tibetan Minnesotans, and use that context to ask better questions in DHS work.
Find out how your unit requests telephone or video interpreters for less common languages, including Tibetan, and how long it takes. Save the steps where your team can find them.
Participation and course completion in this program do not count toward DHS-required training credits unless management, a director, or DHS leadership expressly approves an exception.
Supports the 1990 Immigration Act visas for 1,000 Tibetans in India and Nepal, about 160 settling in Minnesota, roughly 3,500 people of Tibetan descent as of 2019 (second-largest after New York), the cultural center, language classes, Lamton and observances.
Supports the 1959 exile with more than 80,000 Tibetans, the resettlement project's 22 sites, the rule that one family member came first with family joining after three years, and more than 1,300 Tibetans in Minnesota by 2005.
Supports the founding of TAFM in 1992, the Tibetan Cultural School founded in 1997, and facilities in St. Paul and Isanti. Community-authored description.
Supports the Columbia Heights Gelug monastery, its community role, and that many Tibetans from other traditions practice at home. Some population figures on the page are older.
Supports the widespread use of the name Tenzin and a community organizer's self-description of Tibetans as reserved. Older article; population figures are out of date.
Shows only 52 primary refugee arrivals from Tibet, used to illustrate that refugee data undercount a community that arrived mainly on immigrant visas.