Jul 23, 2024 12:28 AM
(This post was last modified: Jul 23, 2024 02:14 AM by C C.)
SUMMARY: A nation's population groups are here for the political followers of literary intellectuals (left ideologists) to perform lab-rat social experiments on.
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(Thomas Sowell interview) The Sri Lankan DEI experiment
https://youtu.be/qgKJ7RFHgxQ
VIDEO EXCERPTS: I quote from Affirmative Action Around the World once again: "Since the middle of the 20th century, Sri Lanka has undergone a remarkable and catastrophic change in the relationship between its majority and minority populations." Explain (a request to Thomas Sowell).
[...] One group is substantially more prosperous than the other. Once again, the Tamils, who are the minority, are much more prosperous. Again, they're particularly good in things like science and mathematics.
There are historical reasons for this. In colonial times, the British and the Americans sent missionaries to Sri Lanka.
The British colonial officials gave the British missionaries the more posh assignments.
Whereas the American missionaries were sent up into the Jaffna Peninsula. Which was a poorer area.
But the Americans taught math and science more so than the British. So ever since then the Tamils have been much better at math and science than the Sinhalese.
There was a wholly disproportionate number of engineers and scientists among the Tamils, while the majority population group was lagging way behind. But there were no race riot problems [during the first half of the 20th century] until after they became an independent nation and began having elections.
One man -- Solomon Bandaranaike -- became prime minister. He pushed what amounted to identity politics for that era.
The irony is that, like so many people who push identity politics, he was not really culturally part of the group that he was being so strident about. Bandaranaike was not a Buddhist, he was a Christian. He didn't speak a word of the native group's language. His father was British Ceylonese, his godfather was the British colonial governor.
He studied at either Oxford or Cambridge, but when he comes back he now suddenly takes off western clothes, puts on Buddhist robes, learns some words of the language, becomes more Sinhalese. And he pushes the idea that the Sinhalese ought to have all these preferences and quotas (social justice) over the Tamils..... RELATED (video): The complex history of Sri Lanka that let to the civil war
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qgKJ7RFHgxQ
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(Thomas Sowell interview) The Sri Lankan DEI experiment
https://youtu.be/qgKJ7RFHgxQ
VIDEO EXCERPTS: I quote from Affirmative Action Around the World once again: "Since the middle of the 20th century, Sri Lanka has undergone a remarkable and catastrophic change in the relationship between its majority and minority populations." Explain (a request to Thomas Sowell).
[...] One group is substantially more prosperous than the other. Once again, the Tamils, who are the minority, are much more prosperous. Again, they're particularly good in things like science and mathematics.
There are historical reasons for this. In colonial times, the British and the Americans sent missionaries to Sri Lanka.
The British colonial officials gave the British missionaries the more posh assignments.
Whereas the American missionaries were sent up into the Jaffna Peninsula. Which was a poorer area.
But the Americans taught math and science more so than the British. So ever since then the Tamils have been much better at math and science than the Sinhalese.
There was a wholly disproportionate number of engineers and scientists among the Tamils, while the majority population group was lagging way behind. But there were no race riot problems [during the first half of the 20th century] until after they became an independent nation and began having elections.
One man -- Solomon Bandaranaike -- became prime minister. He pushed what amounted to identity politics for that era.
The irony is that, like so many people who push identity politics, he was not really culturally part of the group that he was being so strident about. Bandaranaike was not a Buddhist, he was a Christian. He didn't speak a word of the native group's language. His father was British Ceylonese, his godfather was the British colonial governor.
He studied at either Oxford or Cambridge, but when he comes back he now suddenly takes off western clothes, puts on Buddhist robes, learns some words of the language, becomes more Sinhalese. And he pushes the idea that the Sinhalese ought to have all these preferences and quotas (social justice) over the Tamils..... RELATED (video): The complex history of Sri Lanka that let to the civil war