The truth about the civil war in Sri Lanka | Thomas Sowell
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Men like Thomas Sowell unfortunately are not praised by the Mainstream Media, this is a shame, this man is very intelligent and a big example for everybody.
Sowell is a hack. The unitary state, created by the British, was not abolished after independence in 1948. Historically Tamils and Sinhalese have lived relatively peacefully, however colonisation by the Portuguese, Dutch, and then British, reaped the economic, social, and political stability of the two peoples. A unitary state makes the majority Sinhalese rule over Tamils by proxy of numbers. Add to that Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism, the myth of a long persecuted people combined with the aspiration of Aryan godhood and sole ownership (instead of custodianship) of the island. The Sri Lankan government sought to disenfranchise Tamils from 1948 and pogroms began soon after.
Thomas Sowell clips should be shown in all schools sixth grade thru high school.
Sowell is a hack. The unitary state, created by the British, was not abolished after independence in 1948. Historically Tamils and Sinhalese have lived relatively peacefully, however colonisation by the Portuguese, Dutch, and then British, reaped the economic, social, and political stability of the two peoples. A unitary state makes the majority Sinhalese rule over Tamils by proxy of numbers. Add to that Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism, the myth of a long persecuted people combined with the aspiration of Aryan godhood and sole ownership (instead of custodianship) of the island. The Sri Lankan government sought to disenfranchise Tamils from 1948 and pogroms began soon after.
Dr. Sowell The People's Champ!
Another Sowell gem.
As a sinhalease he is right
they had killed 100000 of tamil people and raped many of people
Yup. Its criminal what our people have done to the Tamil. Its a black scar in our history.
My mom doesn't like to talk politics with me, but shes always said the Tamil have suffered alot. Now I know why.
Now that's what I'm calling real education.
You are the first person to explain the Sri Lankian civil war in a way I understood. I followed it on BBC radio with concern and deep confusion for several years.
Sowell is a hack. The unitary state, created by the British, was not abolished after independence in 1948. Historically Tamils and Sinhalese have lived relatively peacefully, however colonisation by the Portuguese, Dutch, and then British, reaped the economic, social, and political stability of the two peoples. A unitary state makes the majority Sinhalese rule over Tamils by proxy of numbers. Add to that Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism, the myth of a long persecuted people combined with the aspiration of Aryan godhood and sole ownership (instead of custodianship) of the island. The Sri Lankan government sought to disenfranchise Tamils from 1948 and pogroms began soon after.
I’m of Sri Lankan origin. I was born there and was never taught this. I have shown clip to friends and relatives. It was a real awakening for them as well.
@@Gordi_B Really hope you don't take this neoliberal analysis to hear. See beyond the chauvinism and strive for a future free of colonialism and capitalism.
@@EezhamDemon Colonialism and capitalism go hand in hand, no? How about the hoards of economic migrants fleeing their countries of birth to Europe, North America, Aus, NZ… in search of better living? Is it not neocolonialism tied to capitalism?
@@EezhamDemon also to note the rise of Tamil nationalism and Sinhala nationalism created a huge issue one side calling Sinhalese history fake the other side advocating saying Tamils don’t belong here etc.
I loved when he says Bandaranaike is a total fake. He was not a buddhist, he wasn't poor. But he forget the most important thing. He was not also a Sinhalese. He had a Tamil origin from his father's side. Bandaranaike's family was originated from Nilaperumal Pandaram a Tamil family.
As far as I know, Pandarams are a priestly class, and don't consider themselves to be Tamil - unless it's for opportunistic reasons of course.
Almost all sinhalese are half tamil.
@@tamilpatriot7815 Sinhalese are not Tamils. Both Sinhalese and Tamils are originated from the Southern migration route (Southern dispersal). Both Sinhalese and Tamils' ancestors are related. That's why they share similar DNAs.
@@tamilpatriot7815 eka athha bn
@@Honokaa65 Wish we were the same. Its insane how divided Srilanka really is.
I say this as a Sinhalese myself. Im kinda mad at my people for going about this the way they did.
My mom always sympathized with the Tamil. Told me as a kid about how much BS they had to deal with. She wasn't wrong!
Honestly I think its kinda better now. Cus even though I dont live in Srilanka, all the Srilankan people I talk to dont seem to care much if your tamil or sinhalese.
What a stupid and illogical war
Sowell is so wise. Only idiots ignore his wisdom.
A wise men who bases inteligence on ethnicity? Are you kidding me. He ultimately says the Tamil were more educated then the Sinhalese. Instead of saying the Tamil had acess to better resources and free western education in comparison to the Sinhala Buddhist. A typical divide and rule British tactic 🤦♂️
Sowell's books should be in everyone's library.
Most societies do not deserve men like Thomas Sowell. Intelligent, humble and extremely knowledgeable and well read, imagine what the US would have been like if her politicians had the same characteristics.
All societies deserve men like Thomas Sowell.
Once again, very well-spoken and a great point made.
Thomas Sowell for president.
Mr Sowell is a treasure
Thomas Sowell explains the difficulties with affirmative action policies. That results can be controlled or that those acted upon have no choices.
His Reader should be required reading in schools. Maybe with a return of civics classes and the help of Mr. Sowell we can save America. We have the leaders(Owens, Elder, Sowell, Carlson, and others) we just need the will to do this and we win.
As a Sri lankan citizen i must say if some want to finding roots about civil war, they should read broken palmyra.
What is the root may I ask if wanted to ask you in a few lines who is responsible please?
@@Slhistory politicians in south and North..specially SWRD bandaranayake and Unp government.
Nationalism is the cause. The Brits respected the cultural boundary between both sides; which meant that they were essentially segregated for 150 years. The only buffer between them were the Indian Tamils, whom both the Sinhalas and Northern Tamils had decided to majorly deport. The Sinhalas should've accepted that English be the priority bridge language and accept that Tamils belonged on the island just as much as they do. the northern Tamils should've just accepted the influx of Sinhalas into their territories, they'd be better off than Singapore.
True .the Jaffna Tamil upper class most of the time intermarried with Sinhala upper class down south .
@@thedominion6643 Dude our country really was just squandered opportunity after opportunity.
If we fixed our shit together back then, we really couldv been better off now.
Annndddd now we sold our ports to China. Amazing.
Democracy is 4 wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
I've heard this repeated every now and then, but I don't know what it means. Could you please explain? Obliged.
the voting means 4 wolves will vote for the sheep to be eaten
@@fwefhwe4232 Doesn't explain squat
I love Thomas Sowell.
Sinhala,Tamil,Muslim,Christine are brothers
Islam and Christianity are not ethnicity
@@TingTong2568 In Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, the Tamil-speaking Muslims ☪️ are considered a separate ethnic group from the Tamils. However, you are right that the latter are not an ethnic group as both the Sinhalese and Tamils, though predominantly Buddhist ☸️ and Hindu 🕉 respectively, have significant Christian ✝️ minorities.
Facts. We have more in common than we do otherwise.
Im glad mostpeople put the past behind ourselves. Its a black scar on our history, and we should put the feuds of yesteryear aside
Brilliant!
Sowell Da GOAT.
Exactly....there is no 'equity' at the end of ANY government imagined rainbow.
Brilliant, absolutely amazing! Thank you Dr. Sowell, Mr. Robinson, and the Hoover Institute for sharing your knowledge and wisdom. Especially in today's world (USA) where any difference of opinion provides a good reason to exploit for political gain, it is nice and reassuring that there are still some level-headed people "out there" that can give YT viewers the "right time of day". May God bless you both, Ciao, L (Baby Boomer Veteran)
was there in 2005, loved every minute of it.
"They think it and they say it, they just cant do it" - Thomas Sowell, .. Friends every once in a while a true genius comes your way, behold the man!
Affirmative Action proved time and time again to do harm and no good.
I love Sri lanka but he is 100% right. This was the MAIN initial cause of the war. IN 1981 - The Sri lankan army deliberately burnt down Jaffna Library - What kind of government does that? One that did not value education as much as the minority. The following day the soldiers were pictured laughing as Tamils went to visit the library in shock/deep sadness. Seriously burning a library down because mainly tamils visited it and it was a symbol of ethnic prosperity? How sad and pathetic of the army to do so. This one action alone - Confirms what Thomas Sowell says here.
Cant entirely blame the soldiers cus they beleived their people were killed by the rebels.
An overall shitshow. Emotional war that left a black scar on our combined history.
We sinhalese let our insecurities get the best of us. How shameful.
Bro it is riots not the army
Referring to politicians who garner votes by appealing to people's patriotism, Dr Samuel Johnson said: 'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.'
President Bandaranaike eventually decided to make peace with the Tamils by dividing the country into two, like the Israel/Palestine model: a Sinhalese section and a Tamil section. The monkhood was against dividing such a small country into two and a monk was dispatched with a pistol hidden in his robes. The overwhelming majority of the monkhood in Sri Lanka is one of the most corrupt of all because from the beginning, the monks have been involved in politics (forbidden in the Buddha's rule for monks), even becoming members of parliament (although one can find small pockets of monks who do, in fact, follow the Buddha's rule). An informative book about it all is 'The Work of Kings' by H. L. Seneviratne, which book has been banned in Sri Lanka.
A country this small shouldn't be divided on an ethnic basis. On top of that, tamils already have a tamil nadu, then they get another piece of land just for them in Sri Lanka??? the country should be united.
@@kiruthishamathivannan7453 If one cares to read my comment, one will see that I argue neither for nor against. I merely describe what happened and the corruption of the Sangha.
@@kiruthishamathivannan7453 Normal citizenry makes big changes.
I agree though that a country that small shouldn't be divided on an ethnic basis. That would be a clusterfuck.
But instead we should adopt the American model. Their the same country, but each region has alot of autonomy.
Srilankan Tamils deserve Srilanka just as much as the SInhalese. Its goofy to reject our tamil countrymen when wev already been through so much together.
@@honkhonk8009What do u mean? A non-independent government? Like soctland?
Excellent
The irony was S.W.R.D Bandaranayake's father was a TAMIL. During the Sinhala uprising against the British, his father helped the British squash the uprising. As a gift he was given the title name Bandaranayake (his real surname was Dias). That family is the best example of opportunistic politicians. Bandaranayake converted to Buddhism, his father converted to Anglicanism, his grandfather converted to Catholism and his great grandfathers were Hindus. They keep converting to gain political gain.
Neelathiruchelwam, India
He was not Tamil, what are you on about? Do you also claim Sinhalese are not Sri Lankans because their great great... grandparents came from North India? If what you're saying about his ancestors is even true.
@@ramdas363 probably true! .../ Up unto the Adam & Evea
Sounds like a normal politician in Srilanka. Lizards who change colours.
im from sri lanka and i can tell you that they dont teach any of this in school not even the conditions of the country just after liberation
You believe his lies that Tamil were basically smarter then Sinhalese. How can inteligence be based on ethnicity. 🤦♂️
He is completely wrong
@@Slhistory He litterally said at the start of the video, that the Tamil were luckily educated by the Americans who taught them Math/Science.
We sinhalese were educated by the British. The result is pretty obvious.
Dont fall for this BS dude. Thats all some mindless ethnic squabble our parents engaged in.
Look at tamil/sinhalese genz. Its history to us, and we could not possibly care
Yea ikr. Here in Sunday school we learnt of Srilankas ancient past, but never this.
We sinhalese should be going through "truth and reconciliation" over this. Blows my mind we let this happen.
I wonder what kind of an iq level you need to understand what he said. He clearly said Tamils were taught science and math and Sinhalese aren’t. So Tamils were smarter. lol
@@Slhistoryit’s nonsense to say that Tamils are cleverer than Sinhalese, look at the number of Sinhalese doctors and ophthalmologists in London. Dr Hiranya Peiris is a Sinhalese and world leading cosmologist is a professor at Cambridge. Professor Peiris is a professor in medical science and Chair professor of virology at the university of Hong Kong. The Sinhalese are only about 15 million compared to the 60million Tamils.
Today courage and ethics are a liability. Weaklings rule the world, with recreant rules and milquetoast customs. To succeed today, you have to know how to blame and how to complain. It has become the survival of the unfittest and the incompetents.
@Ithecastic Is English new to you?
"survival of the unfittest and the incompetents". Funny but well put🤣
imagine unironically believing in social darwinism 💀
Funny how a christian guy started a civil war bw buddhists and hindus. The meek have inherited the earth.
Great
I love Sri lanka but Sowell is right.
Sowell is genius !
His family is very lucky to have him,
You need to read further It was Tamil leaders who started the identity politics in 1923 by establishing the Ceylon Tamil League , then in 1944 founded the All Ceylon Tamil Congress. The core of this conflict centralized within the desires of Velar Tamil elites to rule the Ceylon back then.. The educated Tamils you points in here are all belongs to the Velar caste who were brought to Sri Lanka during the Dutch and British period to serve them, Colonial rulers gave them the priority in every sector to keep their loyalty . In Sri lanka British used their main tool that they used in every part of their empire "Divide and rule"
The Law of unintended consequences. Solomon Bondranaike was noi different than H it ler. Tens of thousands of people died because of 1 person's political greed. He got what was coming to him.
this interview is at least 10 years old...
Before the Sinhala-only policy, it was Chelvanayagam who started ITAK (the federal party) in 1949. They pushed for seperatims, and that gave Sinhala extremists more chances to influence their view. Chelwanayagam wasn't even a Sri Lankan-born politician.If there was a seed for this ethnic conflict, it was planted by him.
Christians played both sides.
No..Sinhala Maha Sabha was created in the 1930s, and the Sinhala leaders ganged up to give Sinhalese special preference. ITAK was formed in response to this. Stop distorting the truth
@@sltruth317no bruh Sinhala maha Sabha came later
@@groundzero5708 Sinhala Maha Sabha was founded in 1934 which is well before
@@sltruth317it was founded by banadarnayaka himself
Educate them then turn them lose.
Idk why it was that tamil people were so highly successful in these fields but i can guarantee that British made sure Sinhalese loose most of their identity and displaced them (identity wise) so much that they feel insecure enough about the minorities. Sinhalese had amazing technology prior to colonization and they thrived back then.
Exactly
The most colonized people in srilanka are Sinhalese
@@groundzero5708what do you mean by colonized?
We SriLankans in general are massive geeks. Its just in our blood lol. Dont matter if were Tamil or Sinhalese.
But Tamil people were just taught more science/math by the Americans, while we were just subjugated by the British.
They had a head start, and the British probably cultivated that insecurity
This is what is going to happen in the US in the years to come.
Divide and rule is how the colonies were able to be so successful.
You mean why the colonisers were able to have their grip on the colonies without the people rebelling and kicking them out !
@@theisheep2676 yes
The father of Sinhalese Buddhist chauvinism Bandaranaika is a Tamil Christian.. The modern day champion of Tamil chauvinism Vigneswaran has his children married to Sinhalese people. So when you look closely, it's apparent that Sri Lanka's conflict was an artificially engineered political conflict by the opportunistic politicians and not a natural conflict.. Because for many centuries Tamil-Sinhala cultures lived side by side and even today Sinhala Tamil cultures exist next to each other without any communal violence. This is because both cultures are similar with similar value system, similar outlook and similar ideal and both are part and parcel of the greater Indian subcontinent, unlike Islam and Christianity which came from Arab traders and the Western colonialists ..
You have an immaculate understanding of the conflict. It's a shame that both Tamils and Sinhalese destroyed each other despite sharing so much culture in common.
@@harshpanchal3131 Sinhalese and Tamils lost so much... But some other groups gained from it also. And more than that it allowed the foreign powers to gain some level of foothold in SL, which is the most strategic location in the Indian ocean. That's why these foreign powers tried their best to keep the war going, so at the worst part, they could intervene in the pretext of 'peacemaking' just like they did in Syria and you know, make it a base...
@@eranjeneabeysinghe8100 Interesting. What do you think about India's handling of these problems . I ask this because as a non Tamil Indian (Gujarati) it appears to me that India could have solved this problem from further escalation if our policy was more coherent. Delhi , to the best of my knowledge, supported the Sri Lankan Govt as it was worried that a weakened Lanka would mean it would be vulnerable to Chinese influence and would subsequently host a rival naval base in India's backyard. But Tamil Nadu took a more emotional approach and supported the LTTE . So it would appear that India as a whole was double dealing in this issue. Anyways , the dust has settled now and it is clear that Delhi was correct in its assessment.
When I was young, I would oft see on one of the back pages of the newspaper: “Tamil Tigers kill a hundred here, there and everywhere.” I thought, ‘Poor Ceylon, they have a violent minority, populated with a lot of terrorists.’
Never was there any context…it appeared it was just the work of an evil minority.
Now I’m beginning to wonder…if anyone can enlighten me, I’d appreciate it.
Wikipedia is a good place to start on Sri Lanka civil war, and there is a good documentary called 'no fire zone '
@@sltruth317 thanks, friend.
Tamils are deluded by Dravidianism. Its like South Asian Nazism
Before the Sinhala-only policy, it was Chelvanayagam who started ITAK (the federal party) in 1949. They pushed for seperatims, and that gave Sinhala extremists more chances to influence their view. Chelwanayagam wasn't even a Sri Lankan-born politician.If there was a seed for this ethnic conflict, it was planted by him.
@@sltruth317I read more. It seems the Sinhalese politicians had every chance to stop this from getting violent, but simply would NOT listen!! The Tamils for many years sought nonviolent means to redress grievances, but were constantly rebuffed and betrayed. Bad leadership and demagoguery led to untold misery.
Bandaranaike also had a Tamil ancestor, which many don't know about
Yes .
I would say he had a Telugu Madurai origin
What? Tamil ancestor of Bandaranayaka?
They think it, they say it, they just can't do it.
basically educate the people and let them choose their own path, don't force it upon them
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The Indian Tamils living amongst the Sinhalas were "the poor tamils", not so much the Ceylon Tamils in the north. ~12% of the island was Indian Tamils; 25% of the island was Tamil at one point. It was nationalism from both sides that denied rights and deported a majority of the Indian Tamils. This created an asymmetric ethnic dynamic that northern Tamils couldn't overcome.
Identity politics really just ruined my country
As a Sri Lankan Thomas nailed it.
A few simplifications but generally the gist of identity politics ruining the place, is true.
If we were rallied together more as a unified people, this wouldn't be an issue.
I know this, because nowadays everybody identifies as Srilankan instead of tamil or sinhalese. Purely cus they hate how Indians talk to them on the internet LOL
It should be noted that the Indian government did it's part in aiding Tamil Tigers to help create instability in it's neighbour. There are photos of Tamil Tiger LTTE training camps in southern India as early as 1974. That whole region has had tribal conflict for centuries.
More like left Indian government
india has tamils too , infact more than 90% of tamils live in Tamil Nadu that one of the states of india . even tho after tamil tigers killed former PM of india , Tamil Nadu govt , political parties support them . western Tamil nadu's MSME is the one of the major source for ltte's own build weapon's parts and part of their food & medical supply are sended from Tamil nadu . Tamil nadu had least number naxel activities and tribal conflict not like you said . central india has more problem with naxels not south india.
@@pradeepc2584then what in vadumathalai movie
@@groundzero5708 you mean viduthalai movie. It's actually inspired from Tamil Nadu liberation Army not naxels, one of the militants group from Tamil Nadu that created after Indian Army 's peace keeping forces attacking Tamil civilians in srilanka bz they loose their trust on indian government and want to create separate Tamil nation . Opening scene of the movie is based on true incident . But wait for part 2 it will explain how that train tregedy happened bz of govt inefficiency .
Quite misleading their weren’t photos til 1974 but support happened around 1979 and 1980. India supported the Tamils because of geopolitics and Cold War they also deported militants who were training their and India didn’t like how Sri Lanka supported Pakistan during the banglesh war in 1971 this stopped after Indira Gandhi was assassinated
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I WILL GET MY REVENGE. TO GOD ALMIGHTY I WILL GET MY REVENGE.
The video is uploaded recently and I believe this is an issue that is ongoing, but the video itself seems like it's from a much older video. Does anyone know what / when the original video is from?
These are clips are from uncommon knowledge from the Hoover institution at Stanford. They have a UA-cam page with the videos up.
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Every time I heard that country X has great race relations I get hopeful... And every time my hopes get dashed. I guess it's my fault for looking for an easy solution we can just copy, though.
Amazing how the US had good race relations right up until Obama et al figured out they could make a buck and gain power by driving a wedge between racial groups.
What about the truth about rayce and eye cue?
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He UNFORTUNATELY forgot to mention that Tamils were given much better education rights and government positions by the British because they readily supported the British and converted to Christianity. British used he Tamils to control Sri Lanka.
Your point is misleading btw. But true they gave Tamils a better education
The Tamils worked harder those days than the Sinhalese - this is just a fact of life and nothing wrong with it. I mean go to the UK - Tamil businesses completely trumped Sinhala ones. The Sihala Army deliberately burnt down Jaffna Library in the 1970s because Mainly Tamils would study there not Sinhalese. This was the worst act of ethnic biblioclasm ever witnessed at the time. Why else would you burn down a library? The truth is obvious. Tamils had to work a bit harder bcos the North was not as beautiful as the South too. These are known facts. I mean the LTTE - ask any army that fought them - take the IPKF - they fought SL army, Nexalite, Kashmir etc but they all admit LTTE were most committed and ruthless army. The SL army are the 4th largest in the world - the LTTE were tiny but they kept fighting a war that they could not win for 30 years.
@@sugs1191This is so misleading. You can't classify a group as much better and intelligent based on a race. This reminds me of Hitler telling Germans are the better race. Get your head out of nationalism. This is educated nonsense and subtle racism.
Tamils were ruling the country during BC, Tamils were ruling when the British came, Pandara Vanniyan in the north and Tamil speaking telugus in the south who relied on Tamil Nadu for their rule. Only Tamil king Pandara Vanniyan took on the British. British kept minority in the administration for their safety, but in the end they gave whole country to the Sinhala christians, which was a mistake. Like the English and French in Canada, they should have given some powers to Tamils, in the north and east.
I dont think american missionaries had to do anyting with Tamils exceling in science and math. If that is so, then can he explain why so many tamils in India are good in math and science. Most of the Indian IT people in the US are from south India. Thomas has let me down.
Same with Srilankans. We are pretty famous for excelling in science/math.
Its definitely to do with missionaries. Cus remember when Microsoft setup a few call centers in India, and it grew into a tech industry?
Truth is, we sinhalese were just an easy and emotional prey to identity politics.
The whole thing is just shameful. Itl forever be a mindless war and a scar on our history.
Bandaranayake is the 2nd, the 1st is Anagarika Dharmapla......./ initiated hatred among ethnic groups!
Anybody who hasn't read about the Tamil resistance known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam should do so when they have the time, they were probably the most impressive private army of the 20th century, the organization began with an ordinary but extremely resentful teenage boy named Prabhakaran who in the 1970s decided to make a difference with the increasingly apocalyptic race relations by killing anti Tamil officials and ambushing Sri Lankan Army patrols with his friends, this caught the attention of the Indian secret service which smuggled him and his followers into southern India to receive covert military training, which lead to him becoming the leader of a private militia that defeated the Sri Lankan government in multiple wars both in guerrilla and conventional warfare (when the Tigers developed artillery, tanks and a air force) as well as the Indian Army who later turned against them, the Tigers evolved by the 1990s into the parallel government in the northern region of Sri Lanka, which lasted until Prabhakaran and his entire regime were exterminated in the final Eelam war in 2009.
The Indian army was sent in an ill-concieved peacekeeping mission without artillery or air support and resented by both sides. An absolute mess.
and the most ruthless terrorist group with child soldiers and suicide cadres
@@be12 The most strange part of that "mess", was how the Sri Lankan government quietly betrayed the Indian Army by leaving weapon caches in convenient places knowing that the Tigers would retrieve them, to augment the capabilities of their own enemies with the purpose of using them anti Indian proxies, this was done in response to Anti Indian sentiment by a large segment of the Sri Lankan civilian population as well as some segments of the government who saw the Indian troops as interlopers who were taking over/violating their sovereignty.
@@johnnyjohn-johnson7738 Wouldn't it be nice if this story were to be taught in our schools, with interviews from all sides as they look back older and hopefully wiser, and with all our human folly unredacted?
They pioneered suicide bombing
This again is like Malaysia. We can see the same pattern time and time again. Colonialism lead to ethnic war religious war etc. Sinhalese are also thought education is important. Yes Tamil in Jaffna benefited from colonialism but so did the Christian Sinhalese. The most neglected as they are the majority was the Sinhalese Buddhist. On the other hand it velala Tamils who benefited from colonialism, not all Tamils. Finally with affirmative action Sinhalese didn't benefit but only those who were already and their friend family member benefited, in the guise of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism. Therefore a system of nepotism where the elite benefited really not the locals. Whom majority are in middle east today working low menial jobs!
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Race riots and wars betweens Sinhalese and Tamils had happened for over 1800 years , it's not a recent phenomenon ! Numerically superior Tamilnaadu region had always tried to control Sri Lanka and the Sinhalese history was a story of resistance against the MIGHT CHOLA EMPIRE (and other Tamil empires, NOTE : Sinhalese had no empires in their history)
Yea iv heard it was exacerbated by the Indians who tried to create more instability.
Wouldnt be surprised, they really dislike the fact that Srilanka's an independent country.
Its kinda funny now, cus these days Sinhalese and Tamil-Srilankans identify as Srilankans magnitudes more than otherwise.
Seriously i never knew id be this patriotic.
@@honkhonk8009 yes
Such words of wisdom but still failing on deaf ears especially in third world and ESPECIALLY in India
Nah. Alot of us were pretty ashamed over the identity politic shitshow that was srilanka.
Its gotten a lil better though. We have bigger enemies now, like recessions.
Calling racism identity politics is a harmful deflection. In engineering/design terms all humans are something like 99% identical, the differences are cosmetic. Skin colour, cartilage distribution and hair are irrelevant.
Your comment is incoherent
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SWRD didn't create identity politics in Sri Lanka. It was actually JR's political baby. SWRD ran with it in the election of 56. What you said about affirmative action is golden!
Imagine if this kind of knowledge was taught in schools instead off CRT and transgenderism? You have to be genius (like Sowell) or a rocket science in order to figure out that.
Unless you happen to be woke transgender xxx xxx xxx xxx person.
in what school do they teach CRT? and what do you mean by "teaching trasgenderism"?
Dude even in srilanka they dont teach this. Almost like the powers want manufactured civil wars.
American missionaries may have exposed Tamils to modern education.
Tamils were historically good in maths. It's from ancient culture.
Lol😅
@@groundzero5708 lol dumbclucks 😂
Why are u taking legends man.
Sowell is having his 4 minutes of glory and talking BS. Bandaranayaka didn't put on buddhist robes, that white cloak you see on photos is the national dress of the country. He didn't do a deal with the Tamils. He did a deal with the budhists, especially with a buddhist monk. When Bandaranayaka didn't deliver what he promised after 3 years of leadership he got assassinated by that buddhist monk, not by any Tamil person. Mr. Sowell please do not add any fuel to this country which is already burning because of ethnicity. Please do your research properly or atleast google search Solomon Bandaranayaka. I speak because I am a proud citizen of the beautiful country and I watched all this as a little kid.
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Bias Bias Bias
No american or Britisher didn’t taught anything to Indian subcontinent people but used them. Indian/Tamils were always good in Math. The literacy rate & Prosperity was much higher before Britisher colonized Indian sub continent and looted all forex reserve, taxed industry hell out and made it uncompetitive, killed millions,,,, approx $30-$40 Trillions was looted by Britisher. India was world largest exporter before Britisher colonized it.
Macaulay's speech in the British Parliament on 2nd February 1835.
"I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation."
Macalay never said that at first place. Fron 1834 to 1838 he lived in colonial India, thus making it impossible for him to deliver any speech in london in 1835 while he was in India. Stop believing in such false propaganda.
It was Tamils who are very proud lol😅
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Funny how he makes no mention of Tamil terrorism. Nor does he make any mention of America backing the Sri Lankan government against them. The Hindu Tamils carried out more Sue E. Side attacks than all the Islamic terrorists combined, as documented in Robert Pape's book 'Dying to Win'. Why no mention of THAT, Sowell?
He’s saying that a western-educated intellectual Bandrinake or however it’s spelled, stoked these hostilities.
IIRC correctly, the Tigers pioneered the boom vest.
That's all Christo Communist faults
Treating your country minority as a second class citizens is root cause of terrorism...
Because that came after, when India (seen by the US as on the Soviet side) and the US itself supported opposite proxies. Add in Mrs Gandhi's communist sympathies and US missionary activities and you have a sticky brew.
Sowell is a hack. The unitary state, created by the British, was not abolished after independence in 1948. Historically Tamils and Sinhalese have lived relatively peacefully, however colonisation by the Portuguese, Dutch, and then British, reaped the economic, social, and political stability of the two peoples. A unitary state makes the majority Sinhalese rule over Tamils by proxy of numbers. Add to that Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism, the myth of a long persecuted people combined with the aspiration of Aryan godhood and sole ownership (instead of custodianship) of the island. The Sri Lankan government sought to disenfranchise Tamils from 1948 and pogroms began soon after.
Hes not wrong. Its still identity politics. Really stupid
90% of socalled sri lankan tamil was
Brought here by portuguese , dutch , english to costal aria to work as slave workers (before they were lower cast tamils in india , sakkiliyar, roddi,.. etc , who later became suicide attackers and were forced to do so by upper cast tamils ) after the massacred of those costal living sinhalese by colonizers and immediately sinhalese villages became tamil villages , after ponnambalam ramathan (also migrated from sound india and who didn' t even knew much about ceylon
people or culture and british gave him higher possession in government than sinhalese becouse sinhalese were alway fighting for freedom against the british ) became registar general changed those indian tamils
Identity as a ceylon tamils and nowadays they says they are oldest here , my advice you to read old ceylon gazettes and what was did by
Ponnambalam ramathan and arunachalem🧐
30 years of civil war was created by british , dutch and portuguese colonialism and their slave labours outnumbered native people and disenfranchised the identity of vanni and north-eastern coastal living sinhalese
Lol liez
@@sugs1191true tho
The vellalars had a good connection with Sinhalese upper clAss
and sinhales are bengals, who come to sri lanka befor tamils :)
Doesnt make them any less srilankan.
Although it does explain the bias against em
this man is a joke. sri lankan politics is way more complicated than this
No he is right. This was the main cause.
@@sugs1191I’m sorry man you probably admire him, but he’s simply using us like a tool(Just like a local politician) to further his own agenda. He clearly doesn’t have a deep understanding on this. He got the basics and realized “Oh this will serve me well in debates”
12th, 15 December 2022
This isn't even right. Whoever saying he is smart. You don't know about the history of this war.
No he was spot on. But he missed other factors too
what is these 2 non sri lankans know about sri lanka? Tamils killed PM Bandaranayke? and he can not speak Sinhala? more than half is not true....
Same old same old! Educated minority…….
In the first place there was no civil war in Sri Lanka. The people of the two communities did not go to war against each other. It was a terrorist group LTTE, sponsored by the West with western arms fought against the Sri Lankan three Armed forces with arms given by China and Russia and almost free fuel from Iran (against the USA), Libbya (under Ghaddafi) and free fuel from Venezuela (under Chavez) and Sri Lankan armed forces won. It is true in thirty years tens of thousand people died. Thomas Sowell's statement on Bandaranaike;s death is absolutely incorrect. He was shot by a Catholic in Buddhist monk's robes and before he was executed he asked for absolution from a Roman Catholic priest. The Bandaranaike's assassination was organised by the CIA agent Bernard Gufler who was in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) at that time.
Thomas, your grasp of Sri Lankan politics isn't as good as you think it is.
Nonsense. Get an education before talking about things
He just mentioned series of events.
Dr. Sowell has this backwards. The affirmative action program in Sri lanka (just like in Malaysia and most other British colonies) to promote minorities at the expense of the majority was put in place by the British under their "divide and conquer" program. Once these countries gained independence, the majority populations wanted what was rightfully theirs. That was not affirmative action, that was corrective action.
The one mistake Sri Lanka made and countries like Malaysia made is to not implement a post independence affirmative action program to give minorities that were displaced from corrective government action after independence, a leg up and preserve some of the pre independence quotas.