{"id":119861,"date":"2021-11-01T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119861"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:55:15","slug":"standing-on-past-issues-and-reluctance-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/01\/standing-on-past-issues-and-reluctance-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"STANDING ON PAST ISSUES AND RELUCTANCE TO CHANGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The\ndynamic nature of the world shows that changing attitudes and many occurring\nare natural in the world and evidence in history proves that people had been\nchanged their thinking patterns or attitudes towards various issues throughout\nhistory. Despite this nature, the people of Sri Lanka are stuck with past\nissues and are interested in sticking in the past issues and exhibiting past\nissues with changed features repeatedly. What factors contributed to this\nstagnation is worthy to investigate and the current ethnic and religious\nproblems have clear links to the past. For example, ethnic issues in the\ncountry had been in the country since before King Dutugemunu despite many\nattempts to solve it, has been unsuccessful. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nhistorical information in the country divulges that people had been changed and\nadapted to modernization. The best example is adapting to information\ntechnology. In Europe, Martin Luther was concerned about adapting to\nmodernization, and in Sri Lanka, Anagarika Dharmapala showed ideas on the\nrequirement of changing attitudes following modernization and the positive impact\nof modernization on society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media\ncontributes to reminding past occurrences and linking such matters to modern\nevents. Dynamism in the modern world may associate with this standing on past\nissues and support to emerging them with recent issues. Media professionals are\nin a crisis that handles issues and shows they associate with modernization.\nTherefore, the standing of the past issues is a nature that is supported or\ncontributed by the media. Anyone who asks a media person about this situation\nthey reluctant to answer the question because he\/ she cannot answer, or like to\navoid answering.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nother point that relates to the reluctance of changing and hanging\/standing in\nthe past is that the impression of people should not forget the past and need\nto retrieve the point in history as and when they need to connect. This is a\nuniversal understanding. The problem in Sri Lanka is that this nature has\nbecome a barrier to solving many problems relating to political, social,\ncultural, and religious issues. There is a Sri Lanka’s traditional saying that washing,\nwashing to put them into muds\u201d and this nature of people has become a barrier\nto change the society or human behaviour and solving significant problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nI am thinking further about this vicious situation, I feel that many critical\npolitical, social, and religious problems could not be solved or removed in Sri\nLanka as attitudes of people’s reluctance to change. In the modernization\nprocess, people need to change and their attitudes need to go along with modern\nthinking. However, the nature of Sri Lanka is going repeatedly forward. This\nnature may be a negative aspect of people. How to change this negative aspect\nof attitude? The best option is promoting kids to change when they need to\nchange their attitude.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many\neducators, psychologists, and elders don\u2019t talk about this significant issue\nand attempt to hang in the past. Although the identity of ethnicity varies and\nthe influence of human genes (this is a biological concept) remains without metamorphic\nand the behaviour of all ethnic groups remains uniform. Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim,\nand other ethnic people in Sri Lanka display manage attitudes similar way. When\neducating kids, this topic should include in social studies and kids should be\ngiven a broader understanding of the requirement of changing attitudes and the\nbenefits of changing attitudes regarding ethnic and religious issues. Many\nparents force the kids to consist of their attitudes and I observed Sri Lankan\nmigrants in other countries follow uniform actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bureaucrats\nin education are reluctant to change the content in curriculum documents or\nsyllabi and many academics are of the view that bureaucrats are stuck with the\nattitudes they are familiar with past, and standing on past issues unnecessary\nway have links to many problems that are related to attitudes of people. \n\nWhen changes the\nworld, it needs changing attitudes, and the system of educating kids needs to\npromote modernization of attitudes. The change of attitudes was supported in\nall developed countries and why Sri Lanka was being stood in the past and\nreluctance to change?  \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The dynamic nature of the world shows that changing attitudes and many occurring are natural in the world and evidence in history proves that people had been changed their thinking patterns or attitudes towards various issues throughout history. Despite this nature, the people of Sri Lanka are stuck with past issues and […]<\/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-119861","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\/119861","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=119861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}