The imaginary road of Tibet's development is far from being reseanable. This is the impression some Westerners claiming to make Tibetan culture intact have left to the author. These people think Tibet should be isolated from the rest of China in order to keep its culture intact, its resources untouched and its language pure from any influence of other languages. Even if Tibetan culture and language could be kept intact by isolating the Tibet autonomous region from the outside world, the culture and language preserved in such a manner would stagnate and finally lose the vitality needed to survive.