tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23964814.post4366046858886006892..comments2024-03-07T16:08:49.323+00:00Comments on London, Lanka and drums: Oh LankaRhythmic Diasporahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15184142486414379805noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23964814.post-15213175845985404842007-11-30T04:59:00.000+00:002007-11-30T04:59:00.000+00:00Yes we can if we can go for a clean break. Look at...Yes we can if we can go for a clean break. Look at Singapore and Malaysia. It split based on racial differences. There was massive riots and loss of lives. Today both countries are doing well.<BR/><BR/>The sinhalese like the Malays have a greivance that they were discriminated during the British rule and so the chinese prospered.<BR/><BR/>Resourceless Singapore like the north east in Sri Lanka prospered. Now why Malaysia cannot do better than Singapore. Simple, they are blinded by race and religion.<BR/><BR/>Malaysia use to export 1/3 of the rubber and tin to the world. In many ways Sri Lanka and Malaysia are similar.<BR/><BR/>Malaysia has the estate/plantation tamils who are marginalised by the respective majority. The chinese and Jaffna tamils are discriminated by language and religion. Ironically Malaysian Chinese tend to be Buddisht.<BR/><BR/>Singapore has found meritocracy as the solution. From Dec 1st 2007, Tharman Shanmugretnam will be the Finance minister of Singapore. He is a Jaffna Tamil. <BR/><BR/>In Malaysia and Sri Lanka the Malays or Sinhalese have never virtually ruled. Mahathir for example was a Malabar Muslim with having a Malay Mother. In Sri Lanka JRW and Ranil are tamil chetty. MR, CBK and SWRD are Malayalees. <BR/><BR/>In Singapore the Malays are more well off then their Malaysian counterparts even when education etc are free for the Malays in Malaysia. <BR/><BR/>The first prime minister of Malaysia, a prince from Kedah Province(might be the same place Chandrbhanu was from)decided to get Singapore split off after the 1964 riots. <BR/><BR/>Lee Kwan Yew, later look at Sri Lanka and commented that this was a wise decision. If the tamils and sinhalese cannot live together unfortunately due to the opportunistic politicians, then there should be a split.<BR/><BR/>After all the tamils are asking for the less arid land. The question is whether the sinhala politicians just like in Malaysia will have now nobody to blame to escape. After all this problem exploded to the LTTE only after JRW screwed up the economy by going for an open market system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23964814.post-51371479805928416432007-11-30T01:51:00.000+00:002007-11-30T01:51:00.000+00:00Let the tamils and sinhalese part ways like Singap...Let the tamils and sinhalese part ways like Singapore and MalaysiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com