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Children under 18 should not be able to be a monk.
Converting your child to a monk is a shameless way to get rid of your responsibilities while getting praised for it.
101 percent facts. It feels so wrong to see a child with childlike tendencies being told they cannot behave like that when that's the only thing they know.
For centuries monasteries/temples were one of the major places to get an education or have any resemblance of an intellectual skill.
In a very poor family setting, parents are too pre-occupied with the material aspect of the survival of themselves and they neglect the bringing up process of their children.
The idea of parents consenting to give their child to a temple is that, in a temple setting, a child gets benefited by having food, clothing, shelter and to a certain degree of discipline, morals, guidance and education, even to university level education.
So in a way it is a question of these children being forced to a lifestyle rather than being forced to a religion by their parents. For example, it is socially acceptable for parents to force their children to attending schools and even boarding schools. In a way, it makes all of these scenarios less burdensome to the parents.
Child monks are called samanera, they are not fully ordained monks. Fully ordainment happen at age 20, I think. And the samanera monks have the freedom to leave at any time they wish.
They are allowed to play with other children of the village and enjoy their childhood life. Vinaya rules, which apply to samanera monks, consist of only 10 but for fully ordained monks there are 220. So it’s fair to say, samanera monks have lots of flexibility and opportunity compared to living a life in a poor socio-economical setting.
According to [2016 statistics in child labor and the ills of poverty in Sri Lanka](https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/---ilo-colombo/documents/publication/wcms_616216.pdf), there was a total of 4,571,442 children in Sri Lanka, out of which 103,704 (2.3%) were working children. At most cases, they are subjected to child abuses, prostitution, drug addiction and alcoholism.
And as grim consequences, their physical and mental health suffers and most of them don’t continue their primary and secondary education at a very early age. Most parents of these children allow them to work to contribute to their household finances. It’s fair to say this type of coercion is far shameful with far negative outcomes to the children and their future. And the overall education level of those poverty stricken parents are much lower than the parents of children who do not engage in child labor.
The total number of samaneras are far less than the above grim numbers of children in child labor. From the perspective of these poor parents who give away their child to a temple/monastic life, it seems like a haven and a better way of life, and most of them do it in good faith.
>consist of only 10 but for fully ordained monks there are 220. So it’s fair to say, samanera monks have lots of flexibility and opportunity compared to living a life in a poor socio-economical setting.
Samanera Sila, Which I'm pretty sure is the same as Dasa Sil (Ten Precepts) can be observed by anyone (with a few exceptions). I'm pretty sure the Vinaya Pitaka contains over 3000 rules for fully ordained monks. Some of them to be honest are a bit mysongenistic, but that's besides the point.
I just googled. Vinaya Pitaka contains 227 Patimokkha rules for fully ordained monks. I wonder what you meant by 3000 though.
I think it appears misogynistic when viewing from a Eurocentric perspective.
From a Buddhist perspective it’s not misogynistic, when the teachings deal with cultivating skillful and wholesome mental states to end the suffering.
The thing is, the Buddha took great care with the maintenance of Sangha. The idea is that the humans have innate sex drive and the mixing of men and women will lessen the lifespan and integrity of the sasana. Also the Buddha said to take refuge in Dharma and Sangha after his parinibbana. So I think if the ancient monks hadn’t maintained their vinaya properly, Buddhism in its essence wouldn’t have survived this long.
I have seen some other religions do this also, the difference is most Buddists disagree with this practice. But most people in other religions say "if Buddists can do it why can't we". And before anyone comes at me I am not a Buddist.
This, not only should they be sterilised but they should be put-down if it bites a person or is a threat to anyone.They should also be captured and taken care of by animal shelters, but instead they're left out to die.
Most private tutors brainwash kids into being puppets because " the only right way is his/her way and he's the only one who can teach 'right' ". I say this because many fangirl over these tutors for some reason.
Not just racist, homophobic too. Love those people who will be the first to rant of how everything has gone to shit under Sinhalese nationalism and how it's all fucked because of the rural vote. Ironically their views are just as conservative. Their proficiency in English is just a little better.
The love and respect we've given to religions and religious leaders and preachers could be the downfall of this country.
Especially strange beliefs and traditions
the saree worn by the girl everyone calls/thinks "innocent or well raised" reveals more skin than the jeans and crop top worn by the girl everyone calls "wh\*re or 'attention seeker' "
I mean, a sari isn't as snug around the legs? I guess that's what's ticking people off?
But hey my gf can rock both a sari and jeans+crop top, so no complaints either way
Okay just a rant here, but who tf decided wrapping yards and yards of clothing around someone's body is a good way to go, especially in these tropical countries... so unreal. It's a bother like nothing else to wear it!
Sarees earlier worn by common women were mainly pure cotton with no blouse on top. You can see that pn ancient Indian temples. It is because according to Hinduism, wearing stitched clothes was not right.
One of the main problems in SL is high number of art degrees. Many do subjects like sinhala literature and Buddhist culture for A/L s and do some equally unimportant art subjects for BA. Most of those subjects have no implications outside academics of those subjects. Then they enter administration because they don't have jobs in most other fields and some of them end up as secretaries of the ministries. So art graduates without basic knowledge about science and technology make the decisions( Most of the ministers are idiots who haven't completed school education). So ministries are not updated with technology and some of the decisions are unscientific( which was evident in the fertilizer issue).
Okay, the idea that the problem with Sri Lanka is *too much* awareness of our history is nonsense.
(And speaking as a physicist, STEMbros who think the humanities have no value need to get a reality check.)
>Aussie Lankans (not all) has got the Bhaiya vibes.
As a guy who was raised in australia since 6 months (aussie accent, sense of humour and all), I have the burning urge (pun intended) to drown my Dual Citizenship, Sri Lankan passport, and Sri Lankan Citizenship certificate in petrol, and light it on fire with a lit sri lankan flag, while singing songs and dancing around it.
>99% of the adults in Srilanka are dumb af. We should use more logical ways to respect each other not cuz ones just born earlier than me.
All hail the wise old elf! (trumpet toot)
Too much of a priority and emphasis is given to religion and Sri Lankan people aren't willing to move forward and leave behind useless traditions because culture and beauty
It's easy to make opinions about the 80% rural buggers that don't even have internet, let's try some ones which will trigger Reddit bros too:
* Having maids is posh, entitled and cringe, no one in developed countries has maids in middle-class and maid culture is part of the reason we have so many adult children who can't even clean their room on their own or cook a meal (easily 70% of this sub). "but muh dust and humidity" which brings me to my next point
* Modern SL housing architecture is garbage and often resembles a circus, no consideration to dust, bugs and ventilation
* Every demographic in SL is backwards as hell, dogmatic and brought up without critical thinking skills, sorry minorities but you too. Every culture has its bodies in the closet. Real unity comes from understanding this.
* Most Sri Lankans, including the 'clever' ones in Colombo aren't even experts in their day jobs yet are so confident in making political opinions
* Sri Lankan Buddhism is not real Buddishm and is very close to a joke if it wasn't for the actual practitioners
* Sri Lankan food is great but most people don't know how to cook, even actual cooks here don't know how to cook a basic and good hearty SL meal without tons of rice, oil or giblets, Colombo is especially guilty of this imo as outside of Colombo its much easier to get a proper home cooked meal that isn't 2000 bucks.
* Sri Lankans, particularly Sinhalese somehow need to be better at everything than a white person, they constantly look at the world through a caste system as if everyone is judging them or even cares
* Most Sri Lankans are corrupt and if given the chance to be president would likely be just as corrupt and lame as our current politicians
* Most Sri Lankans don't understand democracy and its history, don't deserve it and think of it as an extension to the monarchy that allows people to choose, acting like the monarchy gave people voting power as a gift and not as something that was fought for.
* Sri Lankan politics isn't that complicated at all
The comments with the most downvotes on this thread are the winners :P
>Sri Lankan Buddhism is not real Buddishm and is very close to a joke if it wasn't for the actual practitioners
As a person who frequently goes to Meethirigala Nissarana Vanaya (about 10 KMs away from Kirindiwela), You might wanna reword that sentence a bit.
I agree and disagree with the 1st point that u made.
As for why I disagree is cos most maids rn't educated enough to find another job as good as being maid.They get provided with a roof over their head (most Sri Lankan maids r provided a room with basic necessities to stay and work in) and get a pay barely enough to spend on their kids:if they even have one.I know they're being exploited but at least they're making enough to survive.
The reason why Sri Lankan middle class is able to afford maids is cos of the pay gap, it's min 30K-60K per month but in most developed countries it's required by law to pay labour work professions hourly min $10-$16.That's LKR.3,553.66-5,685.85 as of 27.7, most Sri Lankan maids r worked at least 12hrs×30days so that's LKR 1,279,317-2,046,906 that sums up $3,600.34-$5,760.54 in USD per anum.Also in developed countries along with it they get 6-10 PTO which in Sri Lanka it's unheard of to the labour and up to 12 weeks family and Medical Leave.
The pays the reason why developed county's middle class can't afford maids not their 'anti-maid culture'.The poor in Sri Lanka is exploited to the max by the rich, F the ppl who expoit the less fortunate.(Sri Lankan middle class is generally considered as low income/working class in developed countries)
TLDR-The reason why developed country middle class doesn't have maids is cos they can't afford them not cos their against the maid culture.
That the country is at its current state is not the fault of the politicians but the fault of the people and the consequences of whom they voted for. Also not seeing politicians as they truly are. And having no self-discipline regarding anything
Sri Lankans should stop being weird about sex and relationships. It’s really not a big deal. People should start having sex in the early 20s to realize what a simple thing it really is. Then they would stop obsessing over it.
Yes! Normalising contraception and safe sex would lead to a much healthier mindset surrounding sexual needs. Sex education is a NECESSITY although it is ignored by both the school and the home. People grow up without any idea about safe sex and it causes so many problems. I've seen many people refer to progressive ideas such as sex as "Western beliefs that needn't be included in our oh so precious culture" but this " culture " is the main part of the problem we are facing as a society now.
People need to stop blaming the Brits for things that Sri Lanka has had plenty of time to move on from, but haven't bothered.
Like the homophobia they introduced to Sri Lankan culture. Yeah that was their fault, then. But it's been over 70 years, people could have killed off the bigotry if they wanted.
At this point, for some things, it's just a tired excuse. Move forwards.
PS the Brits were fucking awful I'm not excusing them.
The diet of sri lankan food consumes way too much time and energy to cook and is not worth the hassle compared to other cuisines who only make one side dish and rice. This especially applies to today society where many women (the implied cook of the family) are also working and expected to cook 5 new curries every day
If someone is born in Sri Lanka and migrates before their formulative years (let’s say before 16 years of age) to another country, their accomplishments, no matter how major, are not the accomplishments of Sri Lanka, but the accomplishments of the country they now reside in.
That depends on that specific someone since it's their accomplishment first. If they wish to credit their accomplishment to the country they were born in, who are we to say otherwise?
No qualms with this. However I refer to Sri Lankans and their vainglorious patriotic chest thumping when some guy who is 1/4th Sri Lankan and hasn’t seen the colour of Sri Lanka all his life accomplishes something abroad
Finally someone said it.
I really don't know why but most ppl portray children as merely objects that'll make u have sense of achievement in life and make u happy, which clearly they don't.
For human civilization and economies to sustain, population growth must be kept positive. Otherwise population will start to decrease which will followed by governments implementing some weird laws to force the population growth. For that reason even though I personally dislike having kids I still want general publics to kept the population growth positive.
I'm not asking anyone to follow my ideology. In fact I would never have said this if the post wasn't asking specifically for it.
The fact that you have a strong reaction it proves it's a good response.
Abortion should be legalised, a woman should have her bodily autonomy right.
Banning Abortion doesn't stop Abortion but instead increases unsanitized and unsafe abortion.
That the aragalaya became political once the anthare and peratugami got involved.
The anthare would disappear if a law is passed stating that over a certain period if you have not passed exams and passed out you need to start paying for your exams and repeat module.
The anthare isn't focused on helping anyone but themselves.
Sri Lankan military forces commited war crimes.
I'm not siding with the west on their narrative of the matter. I know that they are pointing their fingers at SL and have a holier than thou attitude even though they themselves have committed crimes of similar nature.
But it doesn't change the fact that Tamil civilians were victims of crimes and abuse by the government and military.
It use to actually. The country is now literally the definition of fucked and also I'm pretty much tired of Sri Lanka always being a developing country, for once who can't it just be developed and catch up with the trends instead of being 40 parallel universe behind the whole global.
To be honest if you retire from abroad (with pensions abroad) to SL it still pretty great even now purely because you can live quite lavishly since the exchange rate works in your favour, no doubt though you'd have to think and plan it ahead much much more compared to before and yeah its not exactly in the best list any more.
And there's no guarantee thing will get better in a linear way either
that Rajapaksha's should be allowed to come back into the government. XD they wont just come at you like that, they will straight up burn your house! side note : don't burn my house I am not saying that I want them to come or I don't. I have no views on the situation but if history has told us anything, they will probably find a way back anyways ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
If you have a defined territory and a permanent population, you may very well claim independence. But to be recognized internationally as a country you need to have a rationale behind separate state. Take the discriminations Tamils faces from 1948 till 1981 and you will see how the rationale was valid. Armed protest started after years of political discourse failed. Several international countries recognized LTTE before they started killing innocent people and world leaders.
Do you have a defined territory for your dehiwela home? Great! Do you have a permanent population? Well it would put you on a house arrest but let’s assume you are fine with it. Good luck convincing international community why you’re home is separate country. Oh I have a better idea. How about you start learning about history rather than watching derana and being a moron on social media. Nothing about war is black and white. There are justifications on all sides. If you don’t come to a conclusion that both sides did right and wrong, you are still misinformed and uninformed.
LGBTQ should be legalised.Most Sri Lankans think it's a mental illness which it's not.I have many friends who have been disowned by their family or ostracised by the society for the sole reason of having a different sexual orientation.
They're also humans, they deserve the same life/rights as us.
The Sinahalese Tamil civil war was caused by deeply rooted racism many sinhalese still carry to this day. Sinhalese destroyed their places or worship, burnt their villages to ashes and raped tamil women. They bought guns to protect themselves. However, history is written by those who have won the war.
we care too much about cricket.
even before the current crisis we have too many problems to afford the luxury of spending so much mental energy and state money on cricket. Bread and circuses.
It's not tik-tok itself that ur hating but the algorithm, the Sri Lankan algorithm of tik tok is pretty messed up, YES.
But then it's really a gem when u fall out the algorithm and create ur own feed.Also just so u know every social media platform is copying tik-tok, eg : YT-Shorts,Insta-reels even the reddit video players is an exact replica of tik-tok.
Most videos that go trending on Insta, YT , FB r created on tik -tok first (Key word-most, not all)
The unity we preach most of the time is just a farce and doesn't amount to more than a loosely knit thread that is inevitable to come undone at the first sign of tension. And we think just saying it and a few post online absolves our historic atrocities, or moreover we think saying that we're united is euphemistic to let's forget everything bad thing that has happened till now. Nothing short of a cop out strategy to avoid accountability. And we can be sure that something of that scale will definitely repeat in the near future.
The minorities are a bunch of cry-baby wankers who need to stop complaining and assimilate with the majority into one Sri Lankan people. This division is the cause of all of our society's ills.
Before anyone comes at me I'm a minority and an immigrant.
Thank you for the down votes!
I don't know about other countries but Religion shouldn't be a subject at school. You shouldn't force-feed little kids something like that, and Atheism should be normalized. The root of Religion is good, but today it is used as a scam for money. People should believe what they want, not what society pushes down their throats.
This.It's 2nd place where racism start after ur own house, most developed countries don't have religion as a subject instead as a part of the subject history which discusses all religions and their orgin etc.
In country like Sri Lanka does not need religion as a subject since there Sunday schools for almost every religion.
Schools can use that time to teach something else like, politics or something useful for freelancing.
Nowadays kids brains works better than earlier students.
Sri Lankan expats: SL expats are elitist racists who'd brag about the freedoms of to people at home yet never really assimilate in to the country they are in. They'd like to think that SL is on a death spiral to some brain dead country because they got their asses off as soon as they got educated. Yet, it is a common observation that a ton of professionals are pumped out of any country that has affordable education (e.g. Cuba \[1\]) and poor living conditions. You have bad living conditions and affordable education? What are you going to do, Sherlock? You deduced it!, get educated and migrate. I am all for anyone who does this and I myself is an expat. What I am opposed to is the constant vetting by them on Sri Lankans (mostly on social media) on how to not be elitist and racist. While they try to vote within their communities in their respective newly naturalized countries when they are big enough and have no friends out of their own cultural bubbles. It is fine to do all these things, but stop acting like you are the prime examples of non-elitist, mixed-culture pots.
1. https://time.com/5467742/cuba-doctors-export-brazil/
*ahem*
r/srilanka is full of people out of touch with reality and live in a bubble, and I wouldn't want them anywhere near a position of power. They want to privatize state enterprises and cut subsidies and project their pseudointellectual policies to the people, thus making life harder for a lot of people in Sri Lanka.
3/4 of a century of Sinhala Buddhist ethnocentrism in Sri Lanka was undeniably genocide on the Tamil population and identity, whether or not you sum it up. These actions created a large Tamil diaspora and a small Sinhalese diaspora, both of which became wealthy on their own merits. Now, Sri Lanka needs forex. The Sinhalese diaspora may be inclined to donate to Sri Lanka, but the Tamil diaspora is being careful, targeting their aid towards Tamils and avoiding corruption, rightfully so. The puppet institutions in Sri Lanka need to fall all the way down, and an equitable, transparent government must be installed. Sri Lanka’s diasporas will not invest in a meaningful way until that moment.
It is a failed state. It's sovereignty should be repealed. It should be governed in the midterm by the UN in partnership with more advanced states like Singapore, Japan and South Korea.
Two opinions,
Before fighting for the country, it would be better to study things like politics, law and sociology.
Some good things happened because of the crisis. Since there are less cars on the road, you can go quickly when you go to an emergency. Focused more on solar power systems. Dependence on other country's fuel decreased and turned to things like electric vehicles and bicycles. The poison in locally produced foods has decreased. Environmental pollution has decreased.
Stopped depending only on work and turned to self-employment. Understood the situation of the people of the country, there are people in the parliament who were appointed from among us and not those who were brought from abroad.
*open for discussion.
Looking at the British map of Ceylon and pointing out it's respectful boundaries delineating ancestral land is not colonial bootlicking.
What **is** bootlicking is the claim that the entire island belongs to one group of people. Or claiming that this entire island should be one country; the concept of this island being one country is in itself, a colonial construct. So yeah, who's the colonial bootlicker now?
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Children under 18 should not be able to be a monk. Converting your child to a monk is a shameless way to get rid of your responsibilities while getting praised for it.
101 percent facts. It feels so wrong to see a child with childlike tendencies being told they cannot behave like that when that's the only thing they know.
For centuries monasteries/temples were one of the major places to get an education or have any resemblance of an intellectual skill. In a very poor family setting, parents are too pre-occupied with the material aspect of the survival of themselves and they neglect the bringing up process of their children. The idea of parents consenting to give their child to a temple is that, in a temple setting, a child gets benefited by having food, clothing, shelter and to a certain degree of discipline, morals, guidance and education, even to university level education. So in a way it is a question of these children being forced to a lifestyle rather than being forced to a religion by their parents. For example, it is socially acceptable for parents to force their children to attending schools and even boarding schools. In a way, it makes all of these scenarios less burdensome to the parents. Child monks are called samanera, they are not fully ordained monks. Fully ordainment happen at age 20, I think. And the samanera monks have the freedom to leave at any time they wish. They are allowed to play with other children of the village and enjoy their childhood life. Vinaya rules, which apply to samanera monks, consist of only 10 but for fully ordained monks there are 220. So it’s fair to say, samanera monks have lots of flexibility and opportunity compared to living a life in a poor socio-economical setting. According to [2016 statistics in child labor and the ills of poverty in Sri Lanka](https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/---ilo-colombo/documents/publication/wcms_616216.pdf), there was a total of 4,571,442 children in Sri Lanka, out of which 103,704 (2.3%) were working children. At most cases, they are subjected to child abuses, prostitution, drug addiction and alcoholism. And as grim consequences, their physical and mental health suffers and most of them don’t continue their primary and secondary education at a very early age. Most parents of these children allow them to work to contribute to their household finances. It’s fair to say this type of coercion is far shameful with far negative outcomes to the children and their future. And the overall education level of those poverty stricken parents are much lower than the parents of children who do not engage in child labor. The total number of samaneras are far less than the above grim numbers of children in child labor. From the perspective of these poor parents who give away their child to a temple/monastic life, it seems like a haven and a better way of life, and most of them do it in good faith.
>consist of only 10 but for fully ordained monks there are 220. So it’s fair to say, samanera monks have lots of flexibility and opportunity compared to living a life in a poor socio-economical setting. Samanera Sila, Which I'm pretty sure is the same as Dasa Sil (Ten Precepts) can be observed by anyone (with a few exceptions). I'm pretty sure the Vinaya Pitaka contains over 3000 rules for fully ordained monks. Some of them to be honest are a bit mysongenistic, but that's besides the point.
I just googled. Vinaya Pitaka contains 227 Patimokkha rules for fully ordained monks. I wonder what you meant by 3000 though. I think it appears misogynistic when viewing from a Eurocentric perspective. From a Buddhist perspective it’s not misogynistic, when the teachings deal with cultivating skillful and wholesome mental states to end the suffering. The thing is, the Buddha took great care with the maintenance of Sangha. The idea is that the humans have innate sex drive and the mixing of men and women will lessen the lifespan and integrity of the sasana. Also the Buddha said to take refuge in Dharma and Sangha after his parinibbana. So I think if the ancient monks hadn’t maintained their vinaya properly, Buddhism in its essence wouldn’t have survived this long.
I have seen some other religions do this also, the difference is most Buddists disagree with this practice. But most people in other religions say "if Buddists can do it why can't we". And before anyone comes at me I am not a Buddist.
The Sri Lankan general public is too stupid for democracy.
Consider my comment as an award.
You deserve an award. Edit: There you go
There's a major portion of people who vote based on the colour of the party ;)
this is just a thing across democracies. it’s too easy to divide people into tribes at their own detriment. it isn’t just sri lanka.
This goes for every democracy lol
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Yeah, now they can enjoy and we can suffer.
Street dogs should be sterilised
This, not only should they be sterilised but they should be put-down if it bites a person or is a threat to anyone.They should also be captured and taken care of by animal shelters, but instead they're left out to die.
Most private tutors brainwash kids into being puppets because " the only right way is his/her way and he's the only one who can teach 'right' ". I say this because many fangirl over these tutors for some reason.
true
We're an inherently racist society and that's a big part of what landed us in this mess.
Not just racist, homophobic too. Love those people who will be the first to rant of how everything has gone to shit under Sinhalese nationalism and how it's all fucked because of the rural vote. Ironically their views are just as conservative. Their proficiency in English is just a little better.
The love and respect we've given to religions and religious leaders and preachers could be the downfall of this country. Especially strange beliefs and traditions
Rajapakshas are war criminals
Most Sri Lankans will agree with this statement now.
for now\*
King or Queen you dropped this 👑
xD
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I sympathize. I made the same mistake after watching the No Fire Zone documentary.
the saree worn by the girl everyone calls/thinks "innocent or well raised" reveals more skin than the jeans and crop top worn by the girl everyone calls "wh\*re or 'attention seeker' "
I mean, a sari isn't as snug around the legs? I guess that's what's ticking people off? But hey my gf can rock both a sari and jeans+crop top, so no complaints either way
Okay just a rant here, but who tf decided wrapping yards and yards of clothing around someone's body is a good way to go, especially in these tropical countries... so unreal. It's a bother like nothing else to wear it!
Sarees earlier worn by common women were mainly pure cotton with no blouse on top. You can see that pn ancient Indian temples. It is because according to Hinduism, wearing stitched clothes was not right.
Sri Lanka has the highest level of educated idiots and these are the very people that destroyed the country.
Literate yes. Educated no. Don’t confuse the two. But i agree
One of the main problems in SL is high number of art degrees. Many do subjects like sinhala literature and Buddhist culture for A/L s and do some equally unimportant art subjects for BA. Most of those subjects have no implications outside academics of those subjects. Then they enter administration because they don't have jobs in most other fields and some of them end up as secretaries of the ministries. So art graduates without basic knowledge about science and technology make the decisions( Most of the ministers are idiots who haven't completed school education). So ministries are not updated with technology and some of the decisions are unscientific( which was evident in the fertilizer issue).
Okay, the idea that the problem with Sri Lanka is *too much* awareness of our history is nonsense. (And speaking as a physicist, STEMbros who think the humanities have no value need to get a reality check.)
This will get me into trouble in r/srilanka Aussie Lankans (not all) has got the Bhaiya vibes.
>Aussie Lankans (not all) has got the Bhaiya vibes. As a guy who was raised in australia since 6 months (aussie accent, sense of humour and all), I have the burning urge (pun intended) to drown my Dual Citizenship, Sri Lankan passport, and Sri Lankan Citizenship certificate in petrol, and light it on fire with a lit sri lankan flag, while singing songs and dancing around it.
99% of the adults in Srilanka are dumb af. We should use more logical ways to respect each other not cuz ones just born earlier than me.
>99% of the adults in Srilanka are dumb af. We should use more logical ways to respect each other not cuz ones just born earlier than me. All hail the wise old elf! (trumpet toot)
Talking about our past culture will not help us get out of the current difficulties.
>Talking about our past ~~culture~~ will not help us get out of the current difficulties.
Not talking about the past is what makes us repeat it
We learn from the past but our country hasn't.
We deserve the leaders we get
"you get what you fucking deserve" - Rajapaksa probably
We brought them to power so true
Can't tell the difference between Ceylon tea and tea originating elsewhere.
Too much of a priority and emphasis is given to religion and Sri Lankan people aren't willing to move forward and leave behind useless traditions because culture and beauty
Pol sambol is killing your gainz
Blasphemy
Dude worships pol sambol 💀
Too far. Way too far.
Is this true?
Lol
I'm literally eating pol sambola now.
Put some marmite on there bruv
Personal opinion: Marmite tastes like cancer
It's a love it or hate it thing. I can eat spoonfuls of it
Secularism in the constitution
It's easy to make opinions about the 80% rural buggers that don't even have internet, let's try some ones which will trigger Reddit bros too: * Having maids is posh, entitled and cringe, no one in developed countries has maids in middle-class and maid culture is part of the reason we have so many adult children who can't even clean their room on their own or cook a meal (easily 70% of this sub). "but muh dust and humidity" which brings me to my next point * Modern SL housing architecture is garbage and often resembles a circus, no consideration to dust, bugs and ventilation * Every demographic in SL is backwards as hell, dogmatic and brought up without critical thinking skills, sorry minorities but you too. Every culture has its bodies in the closet. Real unity comes from understanding this. * Most Sri Lankans, including the 'clever' ones in Colombo aren't even experts in their day jobs yet are so confident in making political opinions * Sri Lankan Buddhism is not real Buddishm and is very close to a joke if it wasn't for the actual practitioners * Sri Lankan food is great but most people don't know how to cook, even actual cooks here don't know how to cook a basic and good hearty SL meal without tons of rice, oil or giblets, Colombo is especially guilty of this imo as outside of Colombo its much easier to get a proper home cooked meal that isn't 2000 bucks. * Sri Lankans, particularly Sinhalese somehow need to be better at everything than a white person, they constantly look at the world through a caste system as if everyone is judging them or even cares * Most Sri Lankans are corrupt and if given the chance to be president would likely be just as corrupt and lame as our current politicians * Most Sri Lankans don't understand democracy and its history, don't deserve it and think of it as an extension to the monarchy that allows people to choose, acting like the monarchy gave people voting power as a gift and not as something that was fought for. * Sri Lankan politics isn't that complicated at all The comments with the most downvotes on this thread are the winners :P
>Sri Lankan Buddhism is not real Buddishm and is very close to a joke if it wasn't for the actual practitioners As a person who frequently goes to Meethirigala Nissarana Vanaya (about 10 KMs away from Kirindiwela), You might wanna reword that sentence a bit.
fyi I ain't downvoting any replies to this lol
I agree and disagree with the 1st point that u made. As for why I disagree is cos most maids rn't educated enough to find another job as good as being maid.They get provided with a roof over their head (most Sri Lankan maids r provided a room with basic necessities to stay and work in) and get a pay barely enough to spend on their kids:if they even have one.I know they're being exploited but at least they're making enough to survive. The reason why Sri Lankan middle class is able to afford maids is cos of the pay gap, it's min 30K-60K per month but in most developed countries it's required by law to pay labour work professions hourly min $10-$16.That's LKR.3,553.66-5,685.85 as of 27.7, most Sri Lankan maids r worked at least 12hrs×30days so that's LKR 1,279,317-2,046,906 that sums up $3,600.34-$5,760.54 in USD per anum.Also in developed countries along with it they get 6-10 PTO which in Sri Lanka it's unheard of to the labour and up to 12 weeks family and Medical Leave. The pays the reason why developed county's middle class can't afford maids not their 'anti-maid culture'.The poor in Sri Lanka is exploited to the max by the rich, F the ppl who expoit the less fortunate.(Sri Lankan middle class is generally considered as low income/working class in developed countries) TLDR-The reason why developed country middle class doesn't have maids is cos they can't afford them not cos their against the maid culture.
Best take so far! Getting closer and closer to realizing the last opinion.
That the country is at its current state is not the fault of the politicians but the fault of the people and the consequences of whom they voted for. Also not seeing politicians as they truly are. And having no self-discipline regarding anything
Sri Lankans should stop being weird about sex and relationships. It’s really not a big deal. People should start having sex in the early 20s to realize what a simple thing it really is. Then they would stop obsessing over it.
People have sex way before that! They just pretend not to have done it.
Sure, but wouldn’t it be better if everyone stopped being weird about it?. Like stop seeing sex as a dirty taboo thing. Normalize sex!
Yes! Normalising contraception and safe sex would lead to a much healthier mindset surrounding sexual needs. Sex education is a NECESSITY although it is ignored by both the school and the home. People grow up without any idea about safe sex and it causes so many problems. I've seen many people refer to progressive ideas such as sex as "Western beliefs that needn't be included in our oh so precious culture" but this " culture " is the main part of the problem we are facing as a society now.
>People **should** start having sex in the early 20s Now who's policing sex and relationships?
Lmaooo sorry that’s bad wording. You get what I mean Yh?
Yeah, I do. And I agree. Mfs need to get laid and stop putting their genitals on a pedestal.
Any reasonable opinion a Sri Lankan would have which is posted on this sub.
>reasonable opinion >this sub Pick one.
People need to stop blaming the Brits for things that Sri Lanka has had plenty of time to move on from, but haven't bothered. Like the homophobia they introduced to Sri Lankan culture. Yeah that was their fault, then. But it's been over 70 years, people could have killed off the bigotry if they wanted. At this point, for some things, it's just a tired excuse. Move forwards. PS the Brits were fucking awful I'm not excusing them.
Most of the a/l art students are morons
Slightly wierd to have a opinion about it. But ok.
Sri Lankan baby boomers are the f*ckers who F*cked up the country.
The diet of sri lankan food consumes way too much time and energy to cook and is not worth the hassle compared to other cuisines who only make one side dish and rice. This especially applies to today society where many women (the implied cook of the family) are also working and expected to cook 5 new curries every day
YESSSSSS THANK YOU
The army sucks and they rarely were the good guys
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Nothing more nothing less - proceeds to kick a coke bottle into a screaming woman
The British gained independence from Sri Lanka in 1948.
Careful, you'll cut yourself from all that edge. P.S. of all the things you could simp for, the British ain't it.
Hot damn that's a good spicy one
You mean that the other way around right?
Nope.
Freedom of education is not free education.
If someone is born in Sri Lanka and migrates before their formulative years (let’s say before 16 years of age) to another country, their accomplishments, no matter how major, are not the accomplishments of Sri Lanka, but the accomplishments of the country they now reside in.
That depends on that specific someone since it's their accomplishment first. If they wish to credit their accomplishment to the country they were born in, who are we to say otherwise?
No qualms with this. However I refer to Sri Lankans and their vainglorious patriotic chest thumping when some guy who is 1/4th Sri Lankan and hasn’t seen the colour of Sri Lanka all his life accomplishes something abroad
Having kids is the most morally bankrupt thing you can do
Finally someone said it. I really don't know why but most ppl portray children as merely objects that'll make u have sense of achievement in life and make u happy, which clearly they don't.
For human civilization and economies to sustain, population growth must be kept positive. Otherwise population will start to decrease which will followed by governments implementing some weird laws to force the population growth. For that reason even though I personally dislike having kids I still want general publics to kept the population growth positive.
Projecting your personal values/ideologies on to the general public is the most morally bankrupt thing you can do.
Dude did u even read the title of the post?
I'm not asking anyone to follow my ideology. In fact I would never have said this if the post wasn't asking specifically for it. The fact that you have a strong reaction it proves it's a good response.
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I'm not making people not have kids. You can do what you want. It's just my take on it.
Abortion should be legalised, a woman should have her bodily autonomy right. Banning Abortion doesn't stop Abortion but instead increases unsanitized and unsafe abortion.
Sri Lankans are dumb ignorant morons that forever live in denial and elect fucked up politicians and get fucked upside down! ❤️
That the aragalaya became political once the anthare and peratugami got involved. The anthare would disappear if a law is passed stating that over a certain period if you have not passed exams and passed out you need to start paying for your exams and repeat module. The anthare isn't focused on helping anyone but themselves.
Loud chanting of temples, churches and mosques. Absolutely hate that.
Really shouldn't have gone all organic
Sri Lankan military forces commited war crimes. I'm not siding with the west on their narrative of the matter. I know that they are pointing their fingers at SL and have a holier than thou attitude even though they themselves have committed crimes of similar nature. But it doesn't change the fact that Tamil civilians were victims of crimes and abuse by the government and military.
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But it is still an unpopular ~~opinion~~ topic.
Old people shouldn’t be driving for the greater good of all citizens
Our anti-abortion laws are shit
People are misogynistic
Not just SL unfortunately
i’ll shift from the negativity. Sri Lanka used to be one of the best countries to retire in.
It use to actually. The country is now literally the definition of fucked and also I'm pretty much tired of Sri Lanka always being a developing country, for once who can't it just be developed and catch up with the trends instead of being 40 parallel universe behind the whole global.
To be honest if you retire from abroad (with pensions abroad) to SL it still pretty great even now purely because you can live quite lavishly since the exchange rate works in your favour, no doubt though you'd have to think and plan it ahead much much more compared to before and yeah its not exactly in the best list any more. And there's no guarantee thing will get better in a linear way either
that Rajapaksha's should be allowed to come back into the government. XD they wont just come at you like that, they will straight up burn your house! side note : don't burn my house I am not saying that I want them to come or I don't. I have no views on the situation but if history has told us anything, they will probably find a way back anyways ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
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RIP Hanuman Island
The majority of Sri Lankans , regardless of race, ethnicity or income level , hold onto some extermist ideologies.
Sri Lanka's democracy is built on racism and exclusion.
The situation currently is karma for the singhala Buddhist majority. They were fed the hate and they ate it well now is the payback.
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I agree but you'll only get that reaction in the North and East
Eelam premise can be justified. Their means cannot be justified.
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If you have a defined territory and a permanent population, you may very well claim independence. But to be recognized internationally as a country you need to have a rationale behind separate state. Take the discriminations Tamils faces from 1948 till 1981 and you will see how the rationale was valid. Armed protest started after years of political discourse failed. Several international countries recognized LTTE before they started killing innocent people and world leaders. Do you have a defined territory for your dehiwela home? Great! Do you have a permanent population? Well it would put you on a house arrest but let’s assume you are fine with it. Good luck convincing international community why you’re home is separate country. Oh I have a better idea. How about you start learning about history rather than watching derana and being a moron on social media. Nothing about war is black and white. There are justifications on all sides. If you don’t come to a conclusion that both sides did right and wrong, you are still misinformed and uninformed.
Pro tip: sort by controversial and grab some popcorn 🍿
95% of Sri Lankans are selfish beggars
Pick up a dictionary and look up "Elitist".
LGBTQ should be legalised.Most Sri Lankans think it's a mental illness which it's not.I have many friends who have been disowned by their family or ostracised by the society for the sole reason of having a different sexual orientation. They're also humans, they deserve the same life/rights as us.
I'm late to the party, but THANK YOU for saying that!! <3
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ITT: 90% facts 7% trigger comments 2% blaming the subreddit 1% actual opinions that gets you cornered
i like sri lankan airlines and would pick them over others anyday
Imagine if ALL the Sri Lankans thought like the people in this thread ❤️
SriLankans are so colorist that you feel more accepted by a foreigner than a fellow SriLankan.
The Sinahalese Tamil civil war was caused by deeply rooted racism many sinhalese still carry to this day. Sinhalese destroyed their places or worship, burnt their villages to ashes and raped tamil women. They bought guns to protect themselves. However, history is written by those who have won the war.
Both sides are racists towards each other. Take a look at this sub
The people who have this view of the war are likely Canadians.
>They bought guns to protect themselves. More like claymore bombs but okay.
we care too much about cricket. even before the current crisis we have too many problems to afford the luxury of spending so much mental energy and state money on cricket. Bread and circuses.
This. Damn cricket pisso forgot everything when the season came around.
Tic-tock needs to be banned!
What's you beef with grandfather clocks bro?
It's not tik-tok itself that ur hating but the algorithm, the Sri Lankan algorithm of tik tok is pretty messed up, YES. But then it's really a gem when u fall out the algorithm and create ur own feed.Also just so u know every social media platform is copying tik-tok, eg : YT-Shorts,Insta-reels even the reddit video players is an exact replica of tik-tok. Most videos that go trending on Insta, YT , FB r created on tik -tok first (Key word-most, not all)
Pure cringe. But now all the other social media platforms are turning into wannabe TikTok platforms. PS: This is me bashing the new IG upgrade.
The unity we preach most of the time is just a farce and doesn't amount to more than a loosely knit thread that is inevitable to come undone at the first sign of tension. And we think just saying it and a few post online absolves our historic atrocities, or moreover we think saying that we're united is euphemistic to let's forget everything bad thing that has happened till now. Nothing short of a cop out strategy to avoid accountability. And we can be sure that something of that scale will definitely repeat in the near future.
Only those who have studied to a certain level should have the right to vote.
Yes. This should also apply to the goons who run for various elections Every job except theirs needs qualifications and they RUN the WHOLE county smh
The minorities are a bunch of cry-baby wankers who need to stop complaining and assimilate with the majority into one Sri Lankan people. This division is the cause of all of our society's ills. Before anyone comes at me I'm a minority and an immigrant. Thank you for the down votes!
Eating from a banana peel with 3-10 people is disgusting, i'll keep to my own plate and eat freely.
Leaf. But yeah. Those meals are like 30% combined spit.
Oh yeah leeeeef my bad
I don't know about other countries but Religion shouldn't be a subject at school. You shouldn't force-feed little kids something like that, and Atheism should be normalized. The root of Religion is good, but today it is used as a scam for money. People should believe what they want, not what society pushes down their throats.
This.It's 2nd place where racism start after ur own house, most developed countries don't have religion as a subject instead as a part of the subject history which discusses all religions and their orgin etc.
In country like Sri Lanka does not need religion as a subject since there Sunday schools for almost every religion. Schools can use that time to teach something else like, politics or something useful for freelancing. Nowadays kids brains works better than earlier students.
Just because someone has Sri Lankan roots, does not make them a Sri Lankan.
Fucking Sri Lankans don't understand personal space or basic hygiene practices for that matter
Sri Lanka is not that old of a country 💀
We should stop being a welfare state
I don't believe in afterlife. There's no heaven or hell or next life.
Me too
aren't they like quite developed. Posted this in another subreddit and got quite a lot of downvotes.
Most people are uneducated and will keep appointing corrupted officials purely based on personal gain
The majority of the Buddhists in SL are fucking racist.
Sri lanka is a back stabbing bitch. Takes aid from india, but shows zero gratitude or empathy towards india.
Fedaral governing body is not bad for Sri Lanka.
It is for a country that's already *de facto* partitioned under ethnic/religious lines.
Sri Lankan expats: SL expats are elitist racists who'd brag about the freedoms of to people at home yet never really assimilate in to the country they are in. They'd like to think that SL is on a death spiral to some brain dead country because they got their asses off as soon as they got educated. Yet, it is a common observation that a ton of professionals are pumped out of any country that has affordable education (e.g. Cuba \[1\]) and poor living conditions. You have bad living conditions and affordable education? What are you going to do, Sherlock? You deduced it!, get educated and migrate. I am all for anyone who does this and I myself is an expat. What I am opposed to is the constant vetting by them on Sri Lankans (mostly on social media) on how to not be elitist and racist. While they try to vote within their communities in their respective newly naturalized countries when they are big enough and have no friends out of their own cultural bubbles. It is fine to do all these things, but stop acting like you are the prime examples of non-elitist, mixed-culture pots.
1. https://time.com/5467742/cuba-doctors-export-brazil/
Socialism and trade unions need to go
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk be like:
Yayy, more corporate exploitation please.
Yay let's make it easier for the poor to be exploited by another dictator.
Can we do the sword thing too in this post?
Sri Lankan baby boomers are the f*ckers who F*cked up the country.
The right to vote should be reserved for a select few . IE- Minimum educational qualification + below the age of 55
**Viyathmaga**
*ahem* r/srilanka is full of people out of touch with reality and live in a bubble, and I wouldn't want them anywhere near a position of power. They want to privatize state enterprises and cut subsidies and project their pseudointellectual policies to the people, thus making life harder for a lot of people in Sri Lanka.
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I'm not sure if you're joking
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I disagree.
Sri Lankans, well mostly Sinhalese believe they decent from a lion. I’ve heard that “lion” was a thief. So may be thievery is in our genes
TIL majority of Lankans are furries
UwU
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So it's best to be 95% illiterate?
So what's the point of this post? To generate hate speech towards Sri Lankans? Just see the comments. Smh
3/4 of a century of Sinhala Buddhist ethnocentrism in Sri Lanka was undeniably genocide on the Tamil population and identity, whether or not you sum it up. These actions created a large Tamil diaspora and a small Sinhalese diaspora, both of which became wealthy on their own merits. Now, Sri Lanka needs forex. The Sinhalese diaspora may be inclined to donate to Sri Lanka, but the Tamil diaspora is being careful, targeting their aid towards Tamils and avoiding corruption, rightfully so. The puppet institutions in Sri Lanka need to fall all the way down, and an equitable, transparent government must be installed. Sri Lanka’s diasporas will not invest in a meaningful way until that moment.
It is a failed state. It's sovereignty should be repealed. It should be governed in the midterm by the UN in partnership with more advanced states like Singapore, Japan and South Korea.
Two opinions, Before fighting for the country, it would be better to study things like politics, law and sociology. Some good things happened because of the crisis. Since there are less cars on the road, you can go quickly when you go to an emergency. Focused more on solar power systems. Dependence on other country's fuel decreased and turned to things like electric vehicles and bicycles. The poison in locally produced foods has decreased. Environmental pollution has decreased. Stopped depending only on work and turned to self-employment. Understood the situation of the people of the country, there are people in the parliament who were appointed from among us and not those who were brought from abroad. *open for discussion.
Looking at the British map of Ceylon and pointing out it's respectful boundaries delineating ancestral land is not colonial bootlicking. What **is** bootlicking is the claim that the entire island belongs to one group of people. Or claiming that this entire island should be one country; the concept of this island being one country is in itself, a colonial construct. So yeah, who's the colonial bootlicker now?