{"id":73178,"date":"2017-12-27T22:24:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T04:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73178"},"modified":"2017-12-27T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T22:23:19","slug":"why-do-tamils-hate-sinhala-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/12\/27\/why-do-tamils-hate-sinhala-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do Tamils hate-Sinhala ? Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

It is a question that has not been probed. Why do Tamils hate Sinhala?<\/p>\n

There is something deeply embedded in the minds of the Tamils- a gene, which makes them unreasonably hateful towards the Sinhala. The psychologists try to understand the problems of individual human beings,\u00a0 without applying their studies\u00a0 to\u00a0 communities, a population or\u00a0 or even nations.<\/p>\n

Even in the study of individuals there are disagreements amung psychologists following different schools of thought on psychology. The Western psychologists do not believe in Kamma and afterlife. Hence they study the human mind from the beginning of the life of an individual dividing it\u00a0 into a conscious and subconscious mind.<\/p>\n

It was Carl Gustav Jung\u00a0 the first Western psychologist ,psychoanalyst,\u00a0 who went beyond the Western belief system to understand an individual according to Eastern philosophies where the mind or the consciousness is not limited to an individual\u2019s present life\u201d, but is connected to its existence beyond this life, and shaped according to mental activities in previous lives-Kamma, and Buddhist Dependent Origination.<\/p>\n

Therefore, if a study is to be made on why Tamils are anti-Sinhala it has to go beyond this life to the previous lives to understand\u00a0 how their genes have been influenced to accumulate hatred towards Sinhala. This is perhaps not a psychological way of putting it, but\u00a0 it is an attempt to understand the phenomena by an ordinary person, who would put this Tamil behaviour\u00a0 to an inferiority complex.<\/p>\n

An ordinary unprejudiced view is that the Tamils in Sri Lanka are not treated differently by the Sinhala. The Sinhala Governments had committed no genocide against the Tamil Community, with which certain mentally deranged\u00a0 Tamil individuals try to fuel the minds of Tamils as a reason to hate the Sinhala.<\/p>\n

But they fail to see that\u00a0 the Sinhala on the other hand\u00a0 have accommodated them amoung the Sinhala, introducing some of their religious practices into their Buddhist\u00a0 temples ,\u00a0 even\u00a0 accepting inter-marriages.<\/p>\n

The Tamils we have in Sri Lanka are of the Dravidian stock,\u00a0 who were driven to the southern tip of India by the Invading Aryans who settled in the North. Therefore the Dravidian culture is different from the Aryan culture, perhaps more wild and savage with an undeveloped primitive belief system as seen from decorative grotesque figures on Kovil Gorpurams<\/p>\n

The study if made by psychologists on this question,\u00a0 it has to be a study not restricted to individuals,\u00a0 but to the whole of the Tamil population. Such a study is certainly not to degrade the Tamils vis-\u00e0-vis the Sinhala, but to understand why Tamils are different and why they do not want to have any thing to do with the Sinhala to the extent they want an area for themselves, separated from the Sinhala. <\/strong><\/p>\n

This Tamil dislike for Sinhala is such that we see this even with people from unexpected quarters\u00a0 showing their dislike for the Sinhala.<\/p>\n

For instance,\u00a0 Venerable Buddhaghosa maha Thera, a Tamil master of Veda, who later became a Buddhist Monk\u00a0 was allowed to translate into Pali a vast collection of\u00a0 Sinhala Commentaries to the Buddha\u2019s teachings, \u00a0some of them written by Noble\u00a0 Arahats of the Mahavihara. Venerable Buddhaghosa after completing his work of writing the Visuddhimagga, secretly burnt all the Commentaries which were written in Sinhala. <\/strong><\/p>\n

We now see what a great loss it is to the Sinhala Buddhists. Venerable Buddhaghosa would not have done that if he was an Arahat. But how could he have justified burning those Commentaries,?<\/p>\n

Could it be\u00a0 that Venerable Buddhaghosa too had the same gene in common with\u00a0 all Tamils that made him as destructive as Kalinga Magha the Tamil Tyrant who destroyed\u00a0 the Sinhala\u00a0 Buddhist Monasteries ?<\/p>\n

Because those Sinhala Commentaries were a great Buddhist treasure, more valuable than even the Monasteries\u00a0 destroyed by the Kalinga Magha, or the ancient Sinhala Buddhist\u00a0 ruins being bulldozed by the Sri Lanka Muslims today.<\/p>\n

The Aryans were fair skinned and the Dravidians dark skinned. The caste system was introduced by the Aryans , and the Aryans employed some of the Dravidians who were retained with them as their slaves doing manual and menial work.<\/p>\n

In Sri Lanka the fair skinned Sinhala are supposed to be of the Aryan Stock. And perhaps the Tamils believe that the Sinhala Aryanas had pushed the dark skinned Tamils to the north-,but this cannot be so as the Tamils in Jaffna are fir skinned. Perhaps the fairskinned Tamils in Jaffna come from the same Sinhala Aryan roots !!!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/adaniel.tripod.com\/aryans.htm#<\/p>\n

May be the Caste system affected the Tamils psychologically and made them anti Sinhala-the Aryan Stock that introduced the Caste System.<\/p>\n

To be continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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