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Why put a negative slant on what is actually a positive regarding minority rights of progress and assimilation?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091115/lf_ afp/srilankaafricarightssociety_20091115 065935
There are many of us in Sri Lanka including those from very well established families that know of their African heritage. The traditional kaffir community assimilated and married into all "ethnic compositions on island" In Sri Lanka this did not have to be forced but was a natural progression because the peoples views and those of religious establishment on island allowed it. A community of less than a 1000 that lives in traditional abodes which are mud and thatch is a strong indicator that the peoples actually progressed from the levels that they were left at by colonialism. The Portuguese were not the only ones who "brought" Africans to Sri Lanka the British did so also. There are also Africans that were never slaves on island. Just as in European history there are many indications of peoples from the Africas and Asias living as free peoples going back to the time before Shakespeare- it is only ignorance and racism supported by the West that buries the reality. The patois is not so much diminshed as has gecome incorporated into common language of all. In the USA in communities both in the north and south much money is spent to teach decendants of slaves what is considered "proper" english - it is not forced that people live in traditional abodes but it is by choice and we accept that many have chosen not to. Persons are not forced to either segregate or intermarry what happens is a natural occurence of persons of regionally equal status excercising their rights to live in all areas of the country, to move into other streams of society, to create a lifestyle that brings them closer to larger communities and thrive. In the US and UK there are billions spent each year to encourage assimilation and it would be considered the height of racism if and when government forced persons to live in just one locale so that they could point out to foreign interests that there are these isolated groups. The middle East and Asia are much more accepting of the dynamics of cultural mix and any anthropologist worth his/her salt would easily be able to conote how an entire spectrum has been sown in Sri Lanka. According to western mythos/history our African connections are through Libya thus the Portuguese model but the reality is that we also had not only former palntation slaves but also great land and sea travelers from Oman, all parts of the Middle East. Sections of all peoples have risen to the highest levels of society in Sri Lanka and have become a part of the middle class. For unlike much of the "western world" in Sri Lanka we have always allowed it. We also had Queens that traveled and brought many freemen to Sri Lanka. When you look at what is considered traditional arts, language, dance and theatre it is self-evident. Sri Lanka is a success story that has been greatly and badly effected by acts of foreign domination and there are great truths in what our President has said post war - that there are not minorities in Sri Lanka there are people who love Sri Lanka and those that do not. We certainly do not force people to either leave or stay and the anomolae that is created by those who left either without the knowledge or to whom the knowledge was not passed down in their new "domiciles" it is of their own ignorance or greed and not of some new found "history".
There is no nation that can claim that eveybody has equality in each and every way. There is always the richer and the poorer, somebody always has a bigger house or bank account - but to say that a nation that can prove that each segment of society has reached the upper strata where great numbers live in the middle class regardless of being African, Middle Eastern, European, Chinese/Mongolian, Japanese, Myanmarian, Nepalese, Bhutanese and Russian amongst others is just a moronic attempt to unfairly and unjustifiably interlope into our society and political frame that allowed and encouraged this freedom to exist.
Malini Fonseka just won an international award for a film that is a couple years old - I understand that the film was quite intruiging but what should be more intruiging about the Fonseka family lines is that they too are what is considered "racially mixed" and that she is known as a "sinhalese" actress because she speaks the language but if that is the standard then she could be called an "English" actress and a "French" actress. That all is laughable. What makes me French, Iraqi and Egyptian is that I have not only some linguistic skills but also provable lineage. I am also Chinese/Mongolian but what is different about me and some other people on the vast continent of Asia is that I am willing to admit my connections to ALL these cultures but am not willing to let some slickster politicians come and cart off the assets and resources of my country, create their own little slave colonies on Sri Lanka or affect the morale of our peoples with this endless shite. A
CHECK DRAFTS VLADIMIR/HU
http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2009/11 /15/lanka-and-myanmar-challenges-ahead
Well Stephy - its hard to dicern by your picture if you are a dude, a chick or just a garden variety du-dick but what is very evident is that your own personal "mud hole" exists between your ears.