` ::::Also, depending on the article you will look at, the socioeconomic equality reason will vary. ::::``The violence was undoubtedly racial. Its prime targets were the Chinese merchants who have flocked to Tibet by road and on a prestigious new train across the roof of the world.   ::::The mobs were the losers of Lhasa – the poor who seethe with resentment, outwitted commercially by Chinese traders, out-gunned by the Chinese army and, many fear, ultimately to be outnumbered by Chinese migrants.`` ::::Now this is straight from the horse's mouth. The actual Western journalist who was there wrote this- not some MSM that decided to twist the source's words. I thought it was the most NPOV and fair way to just say- they were angry about socioeconomic inequality, inflation, and fear of becoming a minority in their own city. Why is that wrong? It's the most concise, fair and NPOV way to state what they were angry about which caused the rioting.`