what you are saying now happen in early days after independence, It has change. Now you are talking about the old system.
its good. during those days the jobs held by tamils were higers than the sinhalse when you compare the percentage of tamils popultaion, so the edcated sinhlses were jelous bcz there were less shinhales in top jobs. BUT NOW things have changed, there are high educated pepole from all communties , muslims/shinalses/tamils. If they bring the old system on education and govt jobs its great and now possible. But mahinda/JVP wont allow
The problem with the situation then was that the majority of the sinhala people could not speak english. Whereas the minority Tamils who could had a massive advantage in terms of education, and hence jobs. If this was not corrected, it would have lead to a vicious cycle where the sinhala majority would not be able to get good jobs because they couldnt learn in english, which meant they could not afford to send their children to schools where they could learn english.
You have to admit the situation at the end of the british rule was extremely unfair to the majority of the country. The problem was they made one language the official one instead of making all three official. |
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