Othering and the Hegemonisation of Sinhala-Buddhist Ideology Sample Clauses

Othering and the Hegemonisation of Sinhala-Buddhist Ideology. The ‘Othering’ of the Tamil community since independence has been embedded in the institutions of education and public administration, state policy and practice on language and religion, and intensified by the discursive association of the entire population with the LTTE. In discourse and practice, demonstrated in counter-terror policing, this association led to the majority Sinhalese equation of all Tamils with Tiger “terrorists.” Rampton (2011: 268) argues that the discourses and apparatuses of nationalism “have become articulated into an enduring social formation where they have attained a hegemonic depth beyond mere instrumentality.” Rather than a vehicle for electoral gain, to be manipulated by Sinhala politicians, the populist value of this ideology is its intrinsic inseparability from the concept of the state. The Sinhala-Buddhist exclusionary position towards minorities, particularly the Tamil community, is ingrained “right from the beginning” (MT, 2012) and “natural” (SH, 2012). One interviewee, a Sinhalese media worker with an English literature background, noted the nature of the name colloquially given to the Tamil community in the Sinhala language, demellic or demala: “The technical term for the Tamil community is Damilla. But when you say demellic; I won’t say it is derogatory but there is a tinge of Otherness to it. You never say Sinhellic, for example. There is no word called Sinhellic. But Demallic or Demella-cartia; there is a whole range of words that you would use in Sinhala to call the Tamil community that always stresses on the Otherness aspect” (SH, 2012). For SH, this xxxx on language indicates that Tamils “are never part of the identity of this country.” Political speeches and discourses of reconciliation may promote the notion that Sri Lanka is a multi-ethnic nation “but in popular terminology it is accepted to emphasise the Otherness” (SH, 2012). Quick to deny that this is a characteristic of individual racism, he argues that the majority “don’t see it as being a term that is stressing the Otherness. It is just natural. It is part and parcel of discourse” (SH, 2012). A Sinhalese academic argued that the Sinhalese are “poisoned by long-standing traditions” in Sri Lankan society that promotes Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism (MSP, 2012). Traceable in the language of restraint that defines military operations and the lack of public outcry where Tamil media personnel and activists are killed or made to disappear, this Othering of Tamils a...
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