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Hey guys, a new member here. I was born in Sri Lanka, but haven't lived there, I'm just wondering why

1) So much changed after the British left, and why the country was renamed from Ceylon?

2) The Tamils live mainly in the north and the Singhalese people in the south?

And how come the flag is so colourful, it looks like a tribute to Bob Marley.

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I don't understand Singhalese so if someone here who speaks English could translate any answers for me, I know a lot of people here can speak English, I see a lot of English posts in the forums, so this is good.
 

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1. cuz we wanted to show that the island changed after the Britishers left
2. No. you are mistaken. tamils and sinhalese live in south,west,north and east too :)
3.Yeh.. sri lankans listen to a lott of reggae. looking forward to change their attitude towards heavy metal and add some skulls in to the national flag
anymore questions?
hope this helped.
 

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    1. cuz we wanted to show that the island changed after the Britishers left
    2. No. you are mistaken. tamils and sinhalese live in south,west,north and east too :)
    3.Yeh.. sri lankans listen to a lott of reggae. looking forward to change their attitude towards heavy metal and add some skulls in to the national flag
    anymore questions?
    hope this helped.


    LMAO

    In ur DREAMZ lol
     
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    Thank you R Girl for you response! I am really surprised that Reggae music has had such a huge influence on the country, though I remember some of my friend's Sri Lankan music, it had some interesting drum sounds, that could be the reggae influence I guess.

    I don't know much about Reggae, but I guess Bob Marley himself would be proud.
    Thank you guys for your prompt, informative responses.
     

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    Hey guys, a new member here. I was born in Sri Lanka, but haven't lived there, I'm just wondering why

    1) So much changed after the British left, and why the country was renamed from Ceylon?

    2) The Tamils live mainly in the north and the Singhalese people in the south?

    And how come the flag is so colourful, it looks like a tribute to Bob Marley.

    Cheers

    u ve got proper answers 4 ur 1st 2 Qs, so i ll giv the answer 4 the last 1

    the flag is nt a tribute to Marely ,, if it's it should hav a leaf of a kronic on it ,,, lol ,,, so u may b wondering why multicoloured ha ? well that's cos in sri lankan we have somany ethnic groups living ,, so to represent 'em it has colours

    + wc Ek bro
     

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    Thank you R Girl for you response! I am really surprised that Reggae music has had such a huge influence on the country, though I remember some of my friend's Sri Lankan music, it had some interesting drum sounds, that could be the reggae influence I guess.

    I don't know much about Reggae, but I guess Bob Marley himself would be proud.
    Thank you guys for your prompt, informative responses.


    ha ha lmfao ,,, this guy has taken things so seriously ,, crdt goes to R G :rolleyes::rofl: :lol:
     

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    Thank you R Girl for you response! I am really surprised that Reggae music has had such a huge influence on the country, though I remember some of my friend's Sri Lankan music, it had some interesting drum sounds, that could be the reggae influence I guess.

    I don't know much about Reggae, but I guess Bob Marley himself would be proud.
    Thank you guys for your prompt, informative responses.

    yeh have you noticed there's more of yellow color? that represents the reggae with sri lankan drum beats and stuff.

    hell yeh he definitely would have been proud. In early 70's the presidents only hope was to bring Bob marley to Sri Lanka.. but he never succeeded.
    now president Mahinda Rajapakshe a.k.a King is looking forward to bring another hip hop artist named Akon. may be along with some other reggae artists

    ah you're welcome :)
     
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    ha ha lmfao ,,, this guy has taken things so seriously ,, crdt goes to R G :rolleyes::rofl: :lol:

    I take it that this means she was being sarcastic about reggae, and the flag was not influenced by Bob Marley? Which makes sense in light of your recent post, haha good one R Girl.

    The sounds I heard was from a musician called C.T. Fernando, I have no idea what he was singing about, but it was very nice to listen to, no wonder Sri Lankans are such happy people listening to such happy songs. My friend was teaching me the lyrics but I can't really remember them now, it's a hard language.

    Something like seageree sukumaleeyey heluva rajusamyey - it's a nice song!
     

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    yeh have you noticed there's more of yellow color? that represents the reggae with sri lankan drum beats and stuff.

    hell yeh he definitely would have been proud. In early 70's the presidents only hope was to bring Bob marley to Sri Lanka.. but he never succeeded.
    now president Mahinda Rajapakshe a.k.a King is looking forward to bring another hip hop artist named Akon. may be along with some other reggae artists

    ah you're welcome :)

    ha ha lmfao :lol: u r so pretty gud in making stories , u knw dat ? u should write to a magazine :lol:
     

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    I take it that this means she was being sarcastic about reggae, and the flag was not influenced by Bob Marley? Which makes sense in light of your recent post, haha good one R Girl.

    The sounds I heard was from a musician called C.T. Fernando, I have no idea what he was singing about, but it was very nice to listen to, no wonder Sri Lankans are such happy people listening to such happy songs. My friend was teaching me the lyrics but I can't really remember them now, it's a hard language.

    Something like seageree sukumaleeyey heluva rajusamyey - it's a nice song!
    yeh yeh CT fernando was the prime-minister in early 1970s. i think he wanted to represent these set of music genres in the flag.
     
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    yeh yeh CT fernando was the prime-minister in early 1970s. i think he wanted to represent these set of music genres in the flag.

    I think your country is so fortunate to have leaders that have involved themselves so much from the music, to the flag of the country itself, hopefully your current president will be as successfull as the good leader C.T. Fernando was in the 1970's.

    Does he also make music?
     

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    I take it that this means she was being sarcastic about reggae, and the flag was not influenced by Bob Marley? Which makes sense in light of your recent post, haha good one R Girl.

    The sounds I heard was from a musician called C.T. Fernando, I have no idea what he was singing about, but it was very nice to listen to, no wonder Sri Lankans are such happy people listening to such happy songs. My friend was teaching me the lyrics but I can't really remember them now, it's a hard language.

    Something like seageree sukumaleeyey heluva rajusamyey - it's a nice song!

    whoah ,, even i havent heard of this song ,,, wel now adays v dont have this kinda music all v hav is Hip hop , rnb , Rock all typa modern music ,,, i guess some artists r working on some trance music also ,,,

    if u want 2 listen to gud music better google 4 Kasun Kalhara or clarence wijewardena