Anjalika Silva USA

Dear Fellow Sri Lankans of all citizenships around the world – IF YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE, HERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE A PART OF A NEW BEGINNING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF PEACE, UNITY AND FAIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE TRUTH ABOUT SRI LANKA TO THE THE NEW US ADMINISTRATION.  THE BLAME GAME AND CIRCULATING FEARS DOES NOT SERVE US.  WE NEED TO PARTICIPATE IN SPREADING THE TRUTH. IF YOU WISH TO BE A PART OF THE EFFORT TO GET A FRESH LOOK INTO THE MISREPRESENTATIONS AND TURN IT AROUND TO EDUCATE, AND SPREAD THE TRUTH, EACH OF US NEEDS TO DO OUR PART. THIS OPPORTUNITY IS BEING WORKED ON FOR THE BETTER GOOD OF ALL PEOPLE. 

NOTE:  NO POLITICAL ATTACKS WHETHER AGAINST SRI LANKA OR THE USA WILL BE ENTERTAINED.  THIS IS STRICTLY FOR THE RELATIONSHIP BEWEEN OUR TWO COUNTRIES IN A SINCERE EFFORT TO CORRECT MISINFORMATION AND FEARS THAT HAVE RESULTED OVER MANY YEARS TOWARD THE IDENTITY OF SRILANKANS. WE STRIVE TO ESTABLISH OUR INDEPENDENT IDENTITY.  NO RACIAL POLITICS OR OTHER RUDE REMARKS WILL BE ENTERTAINED.  YOU ARE IN IT OR OUT OF IT. THIS IS ONLY FOR THE BETTER GOOD OF ALL PEOPLE.

This is entirely voluntary. 

We, the Sri Lankans in the USA and others dispersed globally have an opportunity to make a start with the new administration in the USA despite the chaos, for the Better good of Sri Lanka and for an accurate and positive image of who we really are, in contributing where ever we may be. Your contribution to our image will play a role in better understanding and in the US Foreign Policy toward Sri Lanka.

If you wish to convey your greetings to President Elect Joe Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala Harris, feel free to read the message provided at the link below. 

Your name  and (Country) can be added on the right side of the page.  We hope to complete this by Tuesday, December 15, 2020 and seek the best avenue to get our good wishes to the leaders. Permission has been opened for anyone with the link to write into the list of names.  Please do not alter the text.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE THIS WITH YOUR FRIENDS AROUND THE GLOBE.

Link to access the document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zp_RuzpMpwFPqkBfdtsVQYgMbRzhXteXI2tf0yOSofU/edit

A COPY OF THE DOCUMENT REFERRED TO ABOVE IS ATTACHED

If you have problems accessing the document, please feel free to contact me in the USA with your email to:  AnjalikaSilva@gmail.com

I will send you an attachment to add your name that can be included in the document that will get across to the right folks and the Congressman’s office accessible to me.

Thank you

Anjalika Silva

USA

GO TO THE DOCUMENT BELOW AND ENTER     YOUR NAME (COUNTRY)

This is the text of our Greeting that will provide you space in the right column to add your name

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zp_RuzpMpwFPqkBfdtsVQYgMbRzhXteXI2tf0yOSofU/edit

Congratulations and Greetings to President Elect Joe Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala Harris from the Sri Lankan American Community in the USA and Sri Lankans worldwide who join to express their good wishes……

We are profoundly gratified by your success and convincing win for saving the Soul of America” of which we are very much a part.  We rejoice with you and offer our support with gratitude to preserve our democracy and be a beacon to the world.

You delivered hope to us, a small but significant group of immigrants in the US and outside from the little island of Sri Lanka.  Though small, we make a significant contribution to the intellect and economy being a part of the United States of America as law abiding citizens. We seek to be part of the inclusion for equal rights and equal justice you support across all people as promised by your upcoming administration. 

Interest in this election stretched far beyond the shores of the USA to other countries.  In this message, Sri Lankan Americans with citizenship to vote are joined by others who have expressed their joy and gratitude to see the much-needed change in America take shape while they watched from across the globe.  They join us to send their sincere greetings too.

We are a small lesser known group, but we belong to the strong fiber of this country as South Asians.  With a South Asian connection at the highest level of your administration, we come from a South Asian country that elected the World’s First Woman Prime Minister in July 1960”, shattering the glass ceiling ahead of powerful western countries.  

Sri Lanka is the oldest democracy in Asia with adult universal suffrage introduced in June 1931, even prior to Independence from Britain.

As South Asians, we share a connection with the Vice President elect, to join the new order and the journey forward. 

The values you expressed are common to all of us and for our children and grandchildren.  Our culture is one that lays emphasis on education and human values. Those of us who chose to spend decades of our lives in the US brought with us an investment in free college education, nurtured by free health care given to us by our home country. We added value to our adopted land and promise to continue to do so.

We bring a literacy rate of 91% among our people. We are multiethnic and multi religious.  We practice the Philosophy of Buddhism among a majority who spread the message of kindness and compassion to all beings.  We live by the diversity we value with a multi religious composition among us and followers of Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam who freely follow their faith among the predominant Buddhists.  They merge with ease sharing mandated holidays in celebrating all religions in the nation.  This multiethnic group speaks three languages, and we are Sri Lankans striving to obliterate our differences while enriching the diversity in our homeland and adopted land, the United States of America.  We have immersed ourselves to restore America to the position of the pinnacle of the world.  We offer you our blessings in your new and difficult roles ahead. 

We are, Sri Lankan born US-citizens and non-citizens

in the USA and around the world.