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How John Denver got huge in Asia

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The San-Gen U.N. National Park

John Denver is remembered for his music and as an environmentalist. The San-Gen U.N. National Park took place on land with a troubled history. Human rights organizations say that thousands of nomadic Tibetan people have been forcibly removed, displaced and some detained from this land. With this context, the use of John Denver's environmentalist message feels like it was inadvertently misappropriated to fit a political message.

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