Monday, January 28, 2008

Interiorised Inferiority-"oh THEY are the best"

This is the feeling that someone would have being inferior to themselves. This is a result of colonization, globalization as well as feudal systems. When we peep in to the countries where there are civil wars or internal conflicts the countries are most of the times colonized countries.

With the colonization people created the separation of inferior and superior nations. Though sometimes colonization and happened due to internal conflicts the feelings of superiors and inferior is forces in the mind. The religions have to play a main role there since someone would hardly change their religion in a lifetime. Then ideas of inferiority and the superiority breeds.

Still if the education system is not changes and people are not trained to believe in them selves rather than the other nations this moral property cannot be changed and the patriotism cannot be expected from such people.

The reason for the India's Rapid development is not only because of their will, they are in a process of decolonizing. Indians are highly believed in themselves, and they respect the Indian way. They respect the people who speak Hindi or any Indian language than any other foreign language. Majority listen to the local music, ad focused on the local movies.

It is true that the Indians had people to follow during their freedom struggle, but we Sri Lankan never thought of having a monument of freedom at least after the 50 years being free from the west. May be we don’t want it, that it’s the attitude that is to be challenged.

We believe that we are capable as the others as well. When we had international workshops in university what we felt was that we are capable of doing great things than anyone else could imagine. But still we are at a lower rank than them. The reason is we are not willing to promote ourselves as a nation. But now the time has come to change our selves in so many ways which is appropriate, not to compete but to give them a challenge, then we know where we are.

The very little crazy thing which comes to our minds would lead us to success if we identify it and make the correct use of it. The world is us, if we open our minds today and look in to tomorrow. Every human being is made to see beauty of the earth and to make it even beautiful.

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