Top 10 Discriminated Minorities in Sri Lanka - Are you one of them?

Discrimination exist in any society. As societies develop intellectually and economically we tend to give up most of the discrimination practice. Discrimination is a relative concept we can’t define by definite rules. All the discrimination not meant bad intention either. Some times we discriminate with good intentions. Some times there are no other options. I try to collect some of the discrimination I see every day around me. I may have missed some but I was able to collect some of them.

10. CEB (Ceylon Electricity Board) customers
This is my favorite. Electricity is the only service in Sri Lanka does not have any quality control at all. Still take a big bill form my pocket. CEB discriminate their clients anyway they wish. Even we get 120V only 12 hours a day we have no way of complaining. Even the discriminate worst than most of others Since customer base is not really a minority I make this number 10.

9. (Psychologically) Sick people
There are whole lot of syndromes and disorders. But in Sri Lanka we only have two types of people. Just Crazy people and normal people. That is it. Anyone who have psychological disorder treated as Crazy worthless laughing stock in the society.

8. Intellectuals
Been an Intellectual is one of the hardest things to do and there aren’t too many of them either. The simple reason Sri Lanka is a country control by the religion. Religion and Intelligent do not go together. So when ever possible we try to shut Intellectuals.

7. Physically challenged people
There is no way a wheelchair get in to a bus or roll on the road. How many times have we seen a physically challenged person works government institution?

6. Entrepreneurs
Rich or making money is a taboo in Sri Lanka. Community never supports free Entrepreneurship. Since the independence all we try to do was destroy the rich people and Entrepreneurs. We killed them. We burn their property. Their families. And still we rally at the May 1^st and wish if we don’t have any more rich people.

5. Productive people.
Majority of Sri Lankan does not realize there is no such a thing call free lunch. But they always get free lunch because they are able to exploit Productive people (+ foreign aid). Our Rice industry is a good example I can think of. We provide fertilizer subsidiary (that is productive people’s money) also forced to buy rice for higher price (again productive people’s money). End of the day productive people have to take care the majority of unproductive people.

4. Divorcee
Devoice is a Taboo for ‘Buddhists’ (refer to number 3) for a reason even Buddha do not know. Also legal devoice process is very complicated and time consuming. I have seen enough people still pretend marriage but emotionally divorced. They have no place to go. So they have no choice.

3. Buddhists
Three simple Reasons.
1.) Buddhists are the greater minority in Sri Lanka. I mean the Real Buddhists. I know there are majority who call them self ‘Religious Buddhists’. But not them.
2. Real Buddhist has been forced to follow other religious commandments. Few Examples: Anti Conversion bill, Alcohol Ban and all other new rules. My favorite is sexual abstinence, pre-marriage sex and anything to do with controlling my underwear. I like the real Buddhist principle - decide what is right and what is wrong for me. But I don’t have that right.
3. Discrimination against Buddhist females: Best example is females have no voting rights in Temple of tooth relic in Kandy. Once I heard very popular monk suggest we should ban ladies working after 2pm.

2. School Children
School kids have no choice or no voice. They are allowing for physical punishments and emotional harassments. Most of them suffer form malnutrition. There have no chances to work even after reach legal age of working. They have been used as a status symbol by their parents most of the times. What else I can say. It is not a happy life. I wish if there was school shooting when I was schooling.

1. University Freshmen
20 years old. Don’t know a thing about this world. They just turn in to senior’s ‘Bitch’ for three whole ragging months. They are allowed for physical and emotional harassment. Even death is an acceptable outcome for freshmen. I made this number one for four reason:
1. There is no choice. We have a free education with no freedom in it.
2. This discrimination totally caters to primitive animal behavior.
3. A country is as good as it is education system. This discrimination is root for large social issues we are having in the society.
4. This is indirectly funded by tax payer’s money.

I have not seen any Tribal Discrimination worth of adding to top 10 list. My personal view is Tribal Discrimination sound very catchy all the leaders use that to distract us form real Discrimination we face every day.