Shangri
La attempts to ignore all national and regional boundaries
and detach itself from human activities, existing in the perfection
of "raw" nature. Although this comes at a loss of
excluding the diversity of the people in the region and the
richness of their culture, I hope this helps Shangri La remain
disinterested and undivided along ethnic lines.
On the other hand, with the increasing
dominance of human beings over nature, one can hardly abstract
Nature in pure isolation. There is always some kind of association
of the unknown with the known and established world. Yet,
references to human beings and human artefacts, wherever made,
are primarily for identification or within an historical setting.
