Sri Lanka - Land Like.......I don't kn ow

We Sri Lankans love to boast about our aged old history. Rich in culture we say, but do we realy have embedded value in to our identity? I still can't figure it out. We are the most selfish community second to the Indians.

Starting from our childhood we learn to lie. The day we enter in to the school we start everything by lying and we keep on continuing to do so by letting our kids go through the same process. The most affected community is the middle class community who barely surviving with the income they generate and solely depending on our government schools. So aren't we lying about our identity...

Starting from our childhood we learnt to cheat. We witness our parents falsifying the documents and we do the same thing for our children. May be we didn't realize it, and the same way our children will find it later. We were taught how violate the traffic rules because otherwise you will not survive in this society. That is a common guidance and a justification made. There are several in this nature. Eat as soon as the buffet is open....serve as much as you can...not as much as you want....don't think about others...Don't help other in their studies....because than they will go to university....mind you that was one of the guidance given to me by my tuition masters.

So we grew up and start to work. You must take bribes, as well as you talk against it too..as much as possible. They come in different ways. Gifts, treats parties donations.....if you don't take it someone else will take it...that is the justification for that.

What ever we do we can nicely justify it.. My boss had a nice argument for this....I asked why do people justify their extra marital affairs saying that you are helping that woman to satisfy her needs. So my boss said he had asked a question from Buddhist monk regarding the third commandment in Buddhism (adultery). He has said....if living with one woman is the normal in the present context..living with other women is bad.....on the contrary, if at all, living with so many is the accepted norm in the society then the opposite is wrong.....just live with the accepted norm in the society.

So lying, cheating is accepted in the society why not live with it....if talking about those thing also accepted by the society in the same way that we execute those thing what will be the society looks like??

We talk something and do something completely different....Its Sri Lanka....A Land Like no other....I really don't know.....................