SRI LANKA: Sinhalese are an endangered race

The glory of the Sinhalese of Ancient Lanka Sinhalese are an endangered nation. bunpeiris

If you are a Sinhalese Catholic by Ranjith Soysa

You must know that your ancestors had to adopt Christianity to survive and take advantage of the privileges offered under the colonialism. Your Sinhalese Buddhist friends are the third most endangered race, next to the Eskimos and the Red-Indians, on the planet. Their culture, uniquely evolved around the most harmless religion, Buddhism, has been under systematic suppression by the invaders since the tenth century.

If you, as Christians, seem to be more in par with the westerners, it is because of your religion adopts the western thinking and values. Western way of thinking alone is not going to help Sri Lanka. Buddhist Sinhalese, as they have proven in the first millennium, should even be able to teach the west. Let the talent, the competent, the capable take charge and clean up Sri Lanka according to the very fair and harmless Buddhist Sinhalese principles. Sinhalese Buddhists are not racists, If they were, Sri Lanka, would never have ended up like this, and all you minorities will not be able to scavenge on the system.

The selfish social class that holds power in Sri Lanka, made sure that the Sinhalese Buddhists are so weak, both socially and economically. Sinhalese Buddhist masses have realized their fate now and will one day rise up to clean up the mess. Join hands with them. It is true that this socially powerful ruling class allowed you as Christians to make Sinhalese Buddhists, a joke. But to the Sinhalese Buddhists, it is not a joke anymore. Sri Lanka is the only country that carries the Sinhalese Buddhist cultural heritage. As Christians, you must learn to admit it without feeling insecure. Genuine Sinhalese Buddhists are very fair and reasonable people. They are the best majority a minority can dream about. Do not panic, or misunderstand their concern of their heritage. Do not think all those selfish authorities and their corrupt Buddhist monks who make such a fuss about the heritage, are the genuine Buddhist Sinhalese. Do not try to silence the good, because it is the silence of the good that paves the way for the extremists as such to take advantage of the vacuum. (Classic example is the way the LTTE took the advantage of the silence of the Tamil moderates to emerge as the sole force on behalf of the Eelamists). It was your European masters who taught you to despise the Buddhist heritage.

So learn to admit the Buddhist Sinhalese heritage and respect it. After all, you too want respect, won’t you? So join hands with the Sinhalese Buddhists.

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