@nutz_fit@helaunity Our record of standing w/ the country is implacable (donโt take my word for it, take Ravindra Wijegunaratneโs unless you two are too young to know who he is).
@juvarmanii@kotishomaj@male_omni 1. we arenโt tamils
2. โmoorโ is the colonial name given to us by the portuguese. our actual ethnic name is yonaka/sonakar
๐งตThe first portrait of Sri Lanka. February 4th, 1948. After 443 years under the Portuguese, Dutch, and British, Ceylon was finally free. In the crowds at Independence Square the new government wanted to say something without a speech. Something every villager could understand.
lankan moors look down on other moors when they speak tamil. speaking tamil is considered as a lower status thing in their community
even the moors that grow up speaking tamil choose sinhala as their first language in school