{"id":113281,"date":"2021-04-05T15:57:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T22:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113281"},"modified":"2021-04-05T15:57:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T22:57:33","slug":"despite-cultural-integration-composing-sub-cultures-in-overseas-by-sri-lankan-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/05\/despite-cultural-integration-composing-sub-cultures-in-overseas-by-sri-lankan-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"DESPITE CULTURAL INTEGRATION COMPOSING SUB-CULTURES IN OVERSEAS BY SRI LANKAN MIGRANTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Culture\nis defined by many focusing on the past civilization; however, the culture\ncannot strictly define its real complexity limiting to past matters, which were\nbroader and connected to social, economic, political, religious, races, and\nmany others, the evolution of civilization added many features to the culture and\nhistorical information provides that many conflicts between cultures had been\nincurred based on values and assents. This means that culture and values had a\npartnering relationship and the other vital fact on this matter was that values\ndeveloped as a result of the evolution of culture. It can identify that the\nrelationship between the culture and values was bark and tree in history that\nmeans anything dies both will die. People in any country have respect and\nattitudes toward the impregnable of the past cultures. The impression and\nevolution of past culture supported to build of new cultures based on past\nvalues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nis quite difficult to identify that anyone has analyzed the relationship\nbetween cultures and modern laws, rules, regulations, and practices, and the\nlegality of cultures.  When making a deep\nanalysis of the relationship between culture and law it could be seen that\ncultural features have been converted to common law which consists of Roman Law\nfor many common areas, judge-made laws, and legislation enacted by parliament\nthroughout history. The other important point is that having cultural\nceremonies have been recognized as a valid agreement in Sri Lanka by the\nSupreme Court. For example, a marriage ceremony held in a church or any other\nplace recognizes as a valid agreement and this is the best example for\nindication recognition of culture as law in certain instances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even\nthough common law in Sri Lanka is based on the collective culture that applies\nto all communities and when sub-cultural customs failed to integrate into the\ncommon law the concept of personal laws been originated in the legal system.  Sometimes in Sri Lanka and other countries\ncould observe that cultural rules of sub-cultures contradict the law of common\nand in such a situation, personal laws must have originated could be assumed. Many\nWestern countries refuse the cultural rules of sub-cultures and they dislike to\nincorporate with the law of the countries. For example, the marriage rule of\nthe Muslim community rejects within the main legal framework of the country\n(the practice of divorce and the age of marriage, etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nseems that the concept of personal laws violates the new concept of one country\nand one law for all that people in Sri Lanka cry to implement, in some\ninstances, personal laws should justify the application in sub-cultures. For\nexample, the law of Temples and Worshiping places could not be applied to\nChristian and Muslim communities. \nTherefore, the comparison or identifying the relationship between the\nculture and law is an arduous task.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nsupplementary question ascends with the definition of culture is what are\nvalues?  Generally, values are described\nas good or bad things in life, and the general meaning of values seems to be\nforced humans to refrain from bad value practices and adhere to good value\npractice.  Values are an integral part of\nthe culture, people accept or willing to continue cultural values if such\nvalues helpful in building a good society that is abiding by laws, respect, and\nmany other matters in society.  It will\npromote the development of a rich culture. When it goes through the whole\nspectrum of views the culture defines as rules, regulations, customs,\nacceptances in the society based on values.   \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nhistory, there were no restrictions for human or animal movements and people\nfrom one country to another had been moving for various purposes and the free\nmovements of people had restricted by the power of tribes and laws of countries.  Even in the era of homo sapiens or before the\npower of tribes instrumented the restrictions for free movements and later\nphysical restrictions converted laws and regulation against the movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite\nrestrictions for human movements, many western countries have been allowed the\nimmigration of people from other countries as such policy would be helpful for\nbusiness development. The immigration policy of developed countries expects\nthat the overseas-born people would be integrated into the domestic culture and\nas the result of this process one nation with uniform culture will be\nestablished in the western countries. This process is called the cultural\nintegration of migrants.  For\nsuccessfully cultural integration, Developed countries spend funds for helping\nmigrants adapting for cultural integration, but it doesn\u2019t mean that funding\nfor cultural integration is for creating sub-cultures in the country. When it\nlooks at the behavior of many Sri Lankan migrants overseas it is a reasonable\nquestion whether they are integrating into the main culture or attempting to\ncreate sub-cultures in developed countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cultural\nintegration while controlling the restriction of movements and animated\nmovements of people for economic reasons. The movement of people or immigration\nof people had been encouraged in many Western countries such as Australia,\nAmerica, Canada, and other European countries as the economic policy of such\ncountries called for labor from outside to successfully implement economic\nplans.  It has created conflicts between\nexisting people and new migrants and many people blotted out that they were\nmigrants and God created the universe for people who have the right to enjoy and\nreasonably manage countries. Policymakers in many Western countries have to\nwork within many restraints and the movement of people has become a severe\nissue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nconcept of cultural integration embellished in many developed countries to\ndemocratically allow the movements of people. What is meant by a sub-culture?\nIt is making culture within the main cultural framework of people. Cultural\nintegration has become an issue in developed countries as the purpose of many\nmigrants has become a complicated question. There is no doubt that Sri Lankan\nmigrants to developed countries have given priority to have good life and\npurposes such as educating children. \nWhile working on these objectives of Sri Lankan migrants have gone back\nto the country when they were born country after the retirement is on the\npriority list.  In this situation, the\npurpose of creating sub-cultures is not difficult to understand, and this\nsituation had been generally in human s since the era of homo sapiens.  The conflicts between attitudes and the\nenvironment abide by religious engagements. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many\nkids either born overseas or born in Sri Lanka have constraints in cultural\nintegration or joining to the sub-culture mainly because they are living in\nbetween the cultural integration and the sub-culture. The major reason for this\nsituation is the burdensome factors such as difficulty in formidable\ncommunication with each other and suspect to integration in common culture\nresult of misinformation about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is\nthere any solution to this problem? The cultural conflict could be seen among\nother communities too, but they have successfully adapted to the situation and\nthe main supportive factor was the use of language in the domestic environment\nand maintaining the value-laden society. Attitudes of many Sri Lankans bias\ntowards making a meaningless posh society rather than agree with the reality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Culture is defined by many focusing on the past civilization; however, the culture cannot strictly define its real complexity limiting to past matters, which were broader and connected to social, economic, political, religious, races, and many others, the evolution of civilization added many features to the culture and historical information provides that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}