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- From: m1pkd00@fed.frb.gov (Prasad K. Dharmasena)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
- Subject: Re: Just rambling!!!
- Message-ID: <10686@arccs1.fed.FRB.GOV>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:42:31 GMT
- Sender: usenet@fed.FRB.GOV
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- Sarath using <uunet!acs.ucalgary.ca!eknchan> account writes:
-
- > When I was growing up in LANKA (about 50years ago) fair complexion =
- > beautiful for girls and fair complexion and tall = handsome (`` SUDU
- > USA KOLLA''). Has anyone heard a good reason for this behavior other
- > than SL was a British colony blah blah blah?
-
- That is the only reason. SL culture still, even after gaining
- independence from the Brits, worships Western (read: White) societies.
- The flip side of the same coin is what I brought up over the last
- summer. That is, for a lot of Sri Lankans, mostly older folks,
- who are living in the US, American is synonymous with White. Blacks,
- Asians, Hispanics, etc who are legitimately American are not quite
- "American enough."
-
- Though there are songs about Kalu Kella (ie: "Kalu Kelle Oba Harima Hadaii")
- "the whiter the better" attitude is sort of like written on stone. <sigh>
- Then there are the terms like KKK ("Kalu Katha Kella").
-
- > If you looked around
- > here in NA for guys handsome= musclebound tall guys, but having pretty
- > face does not count. I guess endurance in doing certain things (I mean
- > like jogging :-) counts a lot, I wonder whether it is same in SL now.
-
- Endurance in some "other" thing counts a lot too, but you can't tell
- that by looking at someone. <smirk>
-
- Having a crooked nose is important too. Look at Kevin Costner
- and Harrison Ford. (and a nice butt, not that *I* checked them out
- or anything :-))
-
-
-
- > (like don't outstand son come come understand..) and I think Amitha
- > Abeysekara was doing it for a living? Is it common only in our culture?
-
- Nope. Once I saw a graduation card with Peanuts characters. Charlie
- Brown says to Snoopy "You are outstanding!" And on the inside "Come
- on in and sit down." But "Don't do can't things, Abram" is unique to SL.
-
-
- > In TELE NATYA (can I call them soap's?) why do they always try to
- > tell the countryside (or rural areas) is better? I mean the writers
- > live in Colombo, actors do not look like they are suffering from
- > malnutrition and then they try to preach how good the life in
- > the country.
-
- Maybe it is! Do you really think that everyone in rural areas of SL
- suffers from malnutrition?
-
- Seriously, there maybe few reasons. One: it is easier to shoot the Tele
- Drama without too much trouble on a remote site than on Bambalapitiya
- Junction. Remember, SL TV/Movie industry is not all that hi-tech.
- Two: the writers are trying to impose their warped sense of "family
- values" on the SL society. Three: The writers get their first draft
- from up above... the people who write the "first draft" see the real
- life only through the tinted glass windows of their 300SL's when they
- dash from one bungalow to the next.
-
-
- > A few months back ``Silumina'' paper ran a fiction, I don't remember
- > the name, but the story goes like this. A guy goes to US for his
- > studies and bring back an American girl and then she wash his and his
- > fathers clothes with her hands !!!. He teaches good things about
- > SL culture(?). It was really funny!
-
- Like I always say, if you want culture, then go get some yoghurt, huh?
- BTW, was this guy on SLNet? :-) ;-)
-
- prasad
-
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