Comments on: Happy Families https://groundviews.org/2014/05/21/happy-families/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-families Journalism for Citizens Thu, 22 May 2014 09:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: JC https://groundviews.org/2014/05/21/happy-families/#comment-57032 Thu, 22 May 2014 09:02:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=15394#comment-57032 Have you tried asking a Muslim any of above questions. May be you purposely avoided analyzing those.

]]> By: Ived Amos https://groundviews.org/2014/05/21/happy-families/#comment-57012 Wed, 21 May 2014 02:10:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=15394#comment-57012 “To the Christians, post conflict means lie low and hope they are not the next target. But most important of all, what does post conflict mean to the Sinhalese?” and what if you are Christian AND Sinhalese? are you annoyed that Sinhalese is conflated with Buddhist?

My story to add to Amina’s, a Burgher musician friend and I had a habit of hanging out in places where there was live music. He an anthropologist in a previous incarnation, always checked out the race of the musicians testing the hypothesis that many remain descendents from the Dutch and Portugese Burghers. In one instance, Rohan (not his real name) one of the guys in a band responded to my friend’s question about whether there were any Burghers in the ensemble with: “yes sir, three burgher boys, the singer is Sinhalese, and I am Christian”…

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