Topic started by rknr3755@yahoo.com (@ c97097-a.mntp1.il.home.com) on Wed Dec 6 02:17:23 .
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Hi,

I'm a Sri Lankan Tamil guy living in Toronto, Canada. I left Sri Lanka when I was a kid. So, don't know much about my roots. Here is a question that has been nagging me but could not find any academic answer. My parents are from one of the islands off the tip of Jaffna (calle analativu). I found out from my parents and from lot of Tamils that people from the other parts of jaffna don't respect or don't like to deal with people from the diffrent islands - especially when it comes to marriages. I met a Slankan Tamil girl ( a recent immigrant to Canada) and have been going out with her. She was telling me that she would not tell her relatives that my parents/my origins were in one of the islands asumably for fear of ridicule/looking down by her relatives...Why is this? SOme of my friends told me that it is bcos the islands are economically backward and so the mainlanders looked down upon them! Is thsi true. Some others told me that the islanders are inherently cunning and easily deceive people. Any hisstorical reasons...like the islanders were recent immigrants from India to do tobaccco plantation. I read that the islanders were the first to leave Sri Lanka to the west and are pretty well established in the west - corrobarating my family's history...my parents came to the west in the late seventees. Your comments/thoughts will be much helpful

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• From: Pannadai (@ 207.188.73.226) on: Fri Jun 25 14:09:47 EDT 2004
  
  Has chandrika beaten srimavos record?
  Mannang katty knows better than us
  
  
• From: Pannadai (@ 207.188.73.226) on: Fri Jun 25 15:25:49 EDT 2004
  
  Mannang katty is hiding from his past
  Look at his language -mean
  His past with buddhist monks were horriblePlease somebody call chandrika and relieve monks from celebacy
  
  
• From: Vithya Sritharan (@ 207.188.73.226) on: Mon Jun 28 15:30:37 EDT 2004
  
  To me, Mr. mannanng katty is an old sinhalese person (posting here in different names)is trying
  to make a rift between tamil christians, muslims, brahmins,indians and different extinct castes.
  He has gone through his unfortunate life in Tamil Nadu, Jaffna and in India in general.
  He is a pervert and helpless.
  He is wasting time unless paid by somebody.(you know what I mean?)
  
  
• From: Pannadai (@ 207.188.73.226) on: Mon Jun 28 17:31:19 EDT 2004
  
  Not to mention his nightmares with buddhist bikkus
  
  
• From: Blue (@ 65.110.6.35) on: Mon Jun 28 23:16:37 EDT 2004
  
  
  Unethical Christian Evangelism in Sri Lanka:
  
  http://www.geocities.com/focussrilanka
  
  
• From: BJM (@ 207.188.73.226) on: Tue Jun 29 10:12:08 EDT 2004
  
  Silva, Perera, soysa, mendis, rodrigo, fernando..
  all buddhist sinhalese
  
  
• From: Fuck The RSS (@ pd9e3492c.dip.t-dialin.net) on: Wed Jun 30 07:34:34 EDT 2004
  
  The Doctors Club Of Backwards of Forumhub
  is very pleased to welocome our new members
  
  Dr.asdf and Dr.mr.mister.
  
  
  We hereby do thank in particular
  
  Professor tony "Kindergarden" azhggan
  
  from the AKKA University for honouring our new members with the doctorates.
  His superfine Lingam-worshiping during the ceremony was an extremly indescribable great pleasure that we do encourage him to continue and to extend his worship methods.
  
  
  Dr.Fukk The RSS,
  Dr.RC
  
  Chairmen
  The Doctors Club Of Backwards
  
  
• From: Funda_mental (@ 207.188.73.226) on: Wed Jun 30 10:12:42 EDT 2004
  
  I know you are going to paradise and wide eyed virgins are waiting for you
  Shaheed (Martyr)
  
  
• From: Liberal (@ 207.188.73.226) on: Wed Jun 30 16:13:10 EDT 2004
  
  Sri Lankan Government is running a website for Karuna
  Cowards, Get out from here and have your comments there
  You are welcome
  
  
• From: mannanng katty (@ toronto-ppp272265.sympatico.ca) on: Thu Jul 1 00:59:41 EDT 2004
  
  Karuna was the spokesman for LTTE in many world capitals. So, he dont need any support from Chandrika but he is now in the camp of EPDP like many other Theevu dogs.
  
  Douglas is now a mentor to Karuna. So, you Theevu dogs better expalin why you guys support EPDP in Pungudutheevu and Karatheevu and bark in Canada against EPDP!
  
  
• From: tr (@ 61.11.78.15) on: Fri Jul 2 09:22:19 EDT 2004
  
  Worst mistake one could ever do in India is to help Tamils. As long as they got help from others they will keep quite. The moment their work is over they will ditch the people who helped them out. Dont ever help these Tamils.
  
  They r cheats.
  
  

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