Ask a Sri lankan girl anything!

It's our cast+our name+the place we come from.

Are you Tamil or Sinhalese?

ah right interesting, is it compulsory for all Srilankans? If so, why?

For all Sri lankan tamils yeah because most of us are Hindus,even the Christian converts have longue familly names due to their parents being Hindus.

ah ok but why don't Hindus in India have long names?

I'll be honest

Buddhist/Muslim/Christian/Hindu

select one form the above?

also Sinhalese or Tamil?

OMG I'm tamil too c: HI!

I never learnt tamil though :c, I know vanakam is hello though!
I was born in the UK, but both my parents are from sri lanka

It's not that I'm ashamed! It's that I went to a boarding school n stuff and I never got the opportunity to learn! I may learn in the future though

I don't have any tamil friends! , and how can I talk it with my parents if I don't know any to begin with ._.

I don't really talk to them much ._.

I'm a guy!! xD, and I don't know, I just never really developed much of a relationship with them. Also, I'd love some tamil/sinhalese friends, but I just haven't had the opportunity to find any, there weren't any at my college/school.

I was born In France both of my parents are Sri lankans ,and I can speak Tamil fluently,I don't know why but in the UK Tamil are whitewashed,like most of them are ashamed of their origins,while in France,we can speak both Tamil and French fluently,don't you speak in Tamil with your parents?

Hey...tamil here too!
Just to say we're not "whitewashed"...I speak tamil and it's the language I learned first! Depending on where you live, there are SO many tamil schools full of tamil speaking kids!! I think tamils integrated quite well in the UK as well (not to say we didn't in other places) but I hate it when immigrants form a tight knit group in a specific area and only go around speaking in their own language. So just to say I wouldnt call it "whitewashed!"