Immigration To Canada: Diasporic Communities

New Novel Dept: Regardless of what I write, readers will find evidence that I m a Tamil Tiger sympathizer, or an anti-Tamil chauvinist; that I m a blind and deluded defender of the Sri Lankan government, or a blind and deluded opponent, according to The Star. As a result, the country s centuries-old pluralities, its cosmopolitan mixtures and integrations of peoples, cultures, faiths, and traditions, which I discovered in researching my new novel and simultaneously in exploring my own family history prior to its 1960s immigration to Canada, have been reduced, often violently, into purist ethnic binaries and revisionary accounts of the country s peoples and of its past. For how long more must such corrosive pairings serve as Sri Lanka s story of itself and this is about Sri Lanka, which means only one question matters: Whose side am I on? Such partisan and sectarian handicapping is in keeping with Sri Lanka s recent history. For decades, political and cultural conversations in the country and in its diasporic communities have been dominated by a story of sharp divisions along ethnic, linguistic, religious, and geographic lines. As reported in the news.
@t sri lankan government, tamil tiger