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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crazyfool" data-source="post: 698984" data-attributes="member: 32151">Buddy ever wonder why we're a Socialist Democratic Republic? People here have a socialist mentality. Back in the 50's when, I'm sad to say, Sinhalese nationalism was at it's peak, the government ran "indiappa, appa saha pitu sanstha" where basically they took control of everything, including mediocre things like string hoppers, hoppers and pitu (Sri Lankan dish made out of coconut/crushed rice and some other stuff).Basically what I'm trying to say is that the generations before us (can't speak for this generation) were used to the government doing everything for them. The problem with that is, those few entrepreneurs out there had very little choice. Things got better when JR Jayawardena brought forward the free market economy but then again only few who were ready to adapt to such an environment succeeded in making the big bucks (basically if they already had the big bucks). Moderate socialism or any other moderate political system is ok, I suppose, but when we have corrupt officials in power nothing, however moderate, will help make things better.People even today, if they try to make their lives better, they can by doing things themselves and with the law behind them can achieve a lot more. However, only a minority of the people in Sri Lanka even know about the laws that are in place to protect them from abuse, the rest just hang around (these are the people who say "nikang innewa") and expect the government to take care of them.It's sad, but it's true. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/sad.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad    :(" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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