why do we sri lankan’s do the things we do?
seriously. why?
why do we have to be rude unless we know the person we are talking to? why do we ignore everyone else when we do know the person we are talking to? and even when we are polite, why do we bitch about them as soon as they are out of earshot? why do we support our cricketers when they are winning and trash them if they drop a match or an innings? why do we pretend to know everything when we really know very little? why do we think we are better than everyone else?
do we have to cut in front of others while driving? do our motorcyclists and trishaw drivers have to “creep”? do suv’s have to try to own the road? why are our buses, vans and trucks a lost cause? why do we try to make our pedestrians roadkill? why can’t we stop at stop lights, drive in our lane or let another car pass us by? is letting a car overtake us some kind of social suicide?
why do we have to comment about everything? i mean everything? a person can’t wear sunglasses, a loud shirt, shorts or even the right colour of anything? who decides which colours are safe? ok, somethings are gastly, but isn’t “gastly” my point of view? and if it is “my” point of view, why can’t i keep my point of view to myself?
why do we look down at our neighbors, both residentially and regionally? how is it that we can always find something wrong with somebody else’s job? and why is everyone else’s job easy, but we find our own job sooooo tiring? yes, and why is it all we do is bitch about other people at work?
why are we nice to people we don’t like and rude to people we do? why is it that all our friends are “machang”, and all our enemies are also “machang”? why do girls call other girls machang? why is everyone who looks a little older “uncle” or “aunty” and every one who looks younger “malli” but never “nangi”? and why does everyone stare at you like your perving if you say “nangi”?
why do colombo people laugh at dialects of any language from other parts of the country? and why do other parts of the country consider “colombo” english as “posh” english? why don’t we have bus etiquette? is it because our buses are not clean? why can’t they be cleaner? why can we not offer a seat to a lady, a mother, or the elderly? why can’t we do it more often?
why do we spoil our children? why do we let others spoil them if we don’t? why do we feel guilty if they are not being spoilt? why can others not abide by the rules we want for our own children? why cannot children have rules without it being considered a civil rights violation? is the fact that we grew up spoilt, without rules, a reason that we adults bend/break the rules? why can’t bedtime be bedtime? why do we have to drag our children everywhere, weddings they are not invited to, dinner parties, every single movie? why can we not invest in babysitters?
why are we so rushed? and how then are we always so late? why can we not respect another persons time? and then why do we get so upset when someone else doesn’t respect our time?
why do we have to comment on everyones weight and complexion? why must someone have gained or lost weight, got “fairer” or “darker”, every single time you meet them? even the next day? do we not realise that the world sees in 4 colours… black, white, brown, and yes, yellow, and to most we will be brown and to racists we will be called black? why don’t we realise that there is dark and fair is something we have created ourselves? why have slim people always “lost weight” and large people always “gained weight”? why in our so called advanced spiritual society can’t we see ourselves as how we really our, and not how others see us? and why can’t we end this problem with our generation, instead of passing the trauma on to the next?
and seriously, why have we still, not learned to queue up for anything?
ha ha good one.Agree with almost everything.I think the answer for all these questions would be yet another question.May be,When are we going to have control over issues that includes you? In short Self Control.
Is it true >>> “Colombo” English as “posh” English ?
Why are we so self-critical?
We are what we are. Been asking the same question without getting any answers
Good one!!!
A lot of those, from my experience, can be applied in a lot of different countries.
hehehe.. so true… although I didn’t know about the “nangi” bit.. will make note to stare at those that call me that (in keeping with tradition)
applicable but universal at the same time. bitchiness rudeness and hypocrisy speak a universal languauge. but being a spoilt kid is pure sri lankan and you would stop complaining when you take a stance to oppose it. I dont think we Sri Lankans think better of ourselves coz we are the humble nation that gets pushed around and succumb to our own notion of uselessness from politics to ethics. I am yet to see a Sri Lankan prove his/her worth and stop using the phrase ”i come from a third world country” as an excuse.
man, uv git the road bit down right! its so annoying when you’re driving. its like we are all losers and the only sense of achievement we can get is by upstaging another guy on the road. be it a pedestrian who walks really slowly in front of honking traffic just to feel good about having some power over them or those nasty ass bus drivers who act like they own the damn road. i guess its our collective mentality as a people which thinks that we hav it so desperately bad here in this country that we have to seek such pathetic methods of fulfillment.
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Miss!!
Intresting post. Too many questions, one simple answer.
Reply to Dee’s comment on May 24, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Which shameless, pitiful motherfucker of a Sri Lankan uses the “excuse” of being from his own mother land let alone the third world? Im sorry to let you know that you walk among some spineless, cowardly traitors whom you might want to consider avoiding their kind in the future and start seeing what other things our Lankans are made of.