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Let`s celebrate X`mas and defeat evil - JVP
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Shakti
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28 Dec 2006 05:48:29 GMT Report for Abuse
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Pera,
You and I could have superior complexes, being studied at Colombo academy and all..
On the contrary, some of the worst inferior complexes I have seen from the past students of the Colombo Academy. :-)
This happens mainly to students from the rural areas who enter Colombo Academy by Grade five scholarship exam. These students were top in their rural schools and the pets of the teachers. When they come to Colombo Academy they find they are no more at the centre stage, but there are so many others who are academically, financially and status-wise superior to them.
Basically the sudden gap they face is too much for them to tolerate. Imagine how a student feel becoming 21st or 22nd in his new class, if he had been topped every single term test since Grade one to five.
Imagine how a student feel if he find he is among the poorest in the class while in his village his father was one of the richest.
This suddent change in social stautus sometimes start very severe inferior complexes.
This phenomenon is recorded in literature as well.
Prof. A. V. Suraweera who himself underwent the change illustrates his experiences in one of the short stories in 'Pama novee Yami Akurata'. (Think I remember the name corectly.)
Then late Mr. Nihal De Silva in his masterpiece 'Ginirella Conspiracy' introduces a character, a university student and a psss student from Colombo Academy who always rags others from the same school.
But of course, to be fair, there are many who adapt to the change without developing inferior complexes.
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Edited By - Shakti - 28 Dec 2006 06:16:20 GMT |
Pera
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28 Dec 2006 06:12:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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Shakthi,
Point well taken.
I have seen loads of people what you describe in your post. Same thing I see in our young University entrants too.
By the way, if we do not try to suppress or insult Weera (wansa / monkey), we would be better individuals no?
Believe me, all sahodarays Metamorphose in to rich middle class individuals.
Best examples are:
Mahinda Wijesekara
Rajitha Senarathna
SB Dissanayake
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28 Dec 2006 06:25:04 GMT Report for Abuse
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Talking of complexes, just look at the 6590 posts, up to now, to the news article: 'Thomians dilute the Royal glory'.
There are many more important news articles on the forum. Some of them are of national importance; Tsunami aid not being used, Germany putting a break on aid, the dead maid, etc.
But the guys with resources (probably in colombo) are spending their time and energy to discuss something of less importance in the comtemporary sri lanka; battle of blues.
Is this a sign of complex? |
Shakti
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28 Dec 2006 06:37:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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Pera,
As Karl Marx once said, caste barriers are definitely stronger, and consequently more severe than the CLASS barriers. Coming from a person who has struggled his entire adult life to eliminate CLASS barriers that is a very important remark.
This is because with effort one can cross a class barrier by becoming rich. It is not that easy to cross a caste barrier. It is sometimes hard coded in the mind.
Let us take your three examples.
SB was from a relatively poor family from Hangurankatha but he was not low caste. So he had no inferior complex hard corded in his brain. When he got the opportunity he rose automatically. He just had to cross the class barrier and it was easy. Same with the other two.
On the other hand, the people who are hard corded in their internal caste logic will remain the same places no matter what happens.
Current JVP is perhaps the most feudal political party in Sri Lanka. Even with its all ?family trees? SLFP is no as feudal as JVP. (I talk about the present JVP here. It was very different in the time of Wijeweera Sahodarayaa) It is not a coincidence that half of present JVP?s top leaders (Somwansa, Tilvin, Weerawansa and also ex-leader Nandana G) from Kalutara. It is not just the ideology that links these individuals. There are many invisible feudal links that bind these together. That is why even after having such a drastic differences in opinion Nandana G. still does not want to move out from his comfort zone. He knows in UNP or SLFP he again has to sit in the bench while the high caste sit in chairs. So he stays back.
So the bottom line is it is not the external suppression or anything that restrict Weerawansa's (and his comrades) movements either upwards or lateral. It is just his internal hard coded thinking. Cant help. :-)
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28 Dec 2006 06:46:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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Raigamkolla,
Talking of complexes, just look at the 6590 posts, up to now, to the news article: 'Thomians dilute the Royal glory'.
Let me explain this as it looks like you are new here.
The discussions going there has nothing to do with Battle of the Blues. (except for the first few pages.)
Some time back, some of us felt the need of building social relationships and talking about non-political issues, sometimes nostalgia, rather than limiting our discussion to politics.
Since we did not want the politics to get in we have selected probably the only non political thread we had at that time.
Since then we have used the space to discuss non political social issues in that thread. There were some very useful discussions. As there were no personal pages then, this space was very useful.
But you are correct in one respect. Most of the discussions are on issues only relevant to so called 'Colombians' and (in few cases) 'Jaffenese'.... |
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28 Dec 2006 06:55:42 GMT Report for Abuse
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JVP is a big evil They killed 140,000 helpless people
Did they not know of it or are they trying to hide behind behinds anything that they can find? |
Pera
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28 Dec 2006 07:42:05 GMT Report for Abuse
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Shakthi,
I never read Karl Marx or any commie stuff. Therefore I am not in a position to discuss Marx (I know only one Karl Marx, who used to be a Uni lecturer famous for giving 1/4th of the marks to any student, hence Karl Marx!!).
So the bottom line is it is not the external suppression or anything that restrict Weerawansa's (and his comrades) movements either upwards or lateral. It is just his internal hard coded thinking. Cant help. :-)
What you may say here could be correct.
Perhaps that must be the case of VP and Premadasa too.
My father used to tell me about Mr. Keerthirathne who happened to be the son of Saiiya mudalai of Padu caste. When Saiiya mudalali admitted his son to the same Colombo academy, his classmates made him to admit to the Hospital. Later Saiyya Mudalai admitted his son to St John's Jaffna!!
Kertiratne was the one who funded always bankrupt SWRD to start SLFP (or Sinhala maha saba, Im not sure). Later he left SLFP when Mrs B offered a bench to his Brother Mr Asoka Kaunaratne!
So caste ties seems to be stronger than even the racial ties!
Cheers and happy new year
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28 Dec 2006 09:57:58 GMT Report for Abuse
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Pera,
On off topic, there was an article on Lankadeepa sometime back about Karunaratne brothers you talk about.
If I remember correctly two of them were sworn enemies. Perhaps they contested against each other. Not sure.
Also if I remember correctly Asoka Karunaratne became a minister in JR's govt in 1977.
N.H. Keerithratne wanted to contest Presidential election in 1982, but his application was rejected for some technical reason. Rumour was JRJ was behind that, but again I am not sure. Too small then to realize the complexities of politics.
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28 Dec 2006 12:29:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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The JVP in its Christmas message issued by its leader Somawansa Amerasinghe, called on the people to celebrate X'mas with determination to defeat wicked forces against Motherland!
according to Somawansa ' wicked forces against Motherland'
Some members of JVP
JHU
SLFP
UNP
Anti War Front
LTTE
Tamils
Muslims
all srilankans execept few JVP members. |
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29 Dec 2006 00:59:37 GMT Report for Abuse
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Gents,
Let me add my two cents.
This happens mainly to students from the rural areas who enter Colombo Academy by Grade five scholarship exam. These students were top in their rural schools and the pets of the teachers. When they come to Colombo Academy they find they are no more at the centre stage, but there are so many others who are academically, financially and status-wise superior to them.
Well, this may be the case when PERA was at RC, but it was quite not the case when I was there (i.e. mid late 80s to mid 90s). I agree that the lack of recognition in terms of academic performance played *some* role in the minds of certain students entered to RC mainly from rural areas. However, I doubt if it is also the case in terms of wealth and status. Of course, there was a cultural difference (which may have some dependence on wealth and status), but it never became a critical factor (on new comers), since their culture was destined become the predominant one even by mere numbers (Don't forget the statistics. Up to grade 5, RC has just 5 or 6 class rooms per each grade. With the new entrants at grade 6, this goes up to a massive 15 or 16). As such, during our times, students who were there since grade 1, in fact had to adopt more to the new cultural trends (not the opposite), leaving no space for any inferior complexes, if not on special cases.
The fact is, these differences never became issues to us at the time since we were at tender ages where anything could be absorbed without much resistance. I really doubt the presence of any visible differences between two groups of students by the time they enter Grade 9, for example.
However, this might not have been the case when Prof. A.V. Suraweera was at RC.
-Mucha
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Edited By - Mucha-linda - 29 Dec 2006 01:00:11 GM |
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