LL-L 'Language loyalty' 2006.12.04 (01) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 04 December 2006 * Volume 01
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From: Mel Vassey [mel.vassey at gmail.com]
Subject: LL-L 'Language loyalty' 2006.12.03 (04) [E]

2006/12/3, Lowlands-L <lowlands-l at lowlands-l.net>:
>
> Yesterday I had a chance encounter with a student "fresh off the boat" from Sri
> Lanka.
> He
> confided in me that his mother is a Burgher, while his father is "purely
> Sinhalese" (though not Buddhist but Roman Catholic like his wife). The young man
> himself does not consider himself a Burgher.

I was just reading through the Wikipedia entry on Burghers
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgher_people) the other day, actually,
having reached it from the main Sri Lanka entry. Apparently the ethnic
identity was legally defined in 1883 as a paternal inheritance - i.e.,
one's father has to have European ancestry. Only Sri Lankans with
European surnames (Portuguese or Dutch, generally) are considered
Burghers.

-- 
Mel Vassey, DVM

http://cabezalana.blogspot.com

"Hatred never ends by hatred; hatred ends by love. That is the eternal law."
- Buddha

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