Does someone know how this Sri Lanka Sinhalese Buddhist religion works with their women/sisters?
Am I being politically incorrect to question the over protectiveness of male family members with their sisters?
Could she been scared of her brother? Was milk and butter something that her brother could pick up on the way home? Why didn't she have an access card.
Did she take a short cut in the dark through the creek not realising that it could be flooded? No.
It's not making a great deal of sense. The rain would have limited the bad types down the creek.
Ms Rajapakse arrived from Sri Lanka in 2009 and was an IT graduate.
One staff member at the unit block said Ms Rajapakses brother was a complete mess.
Hello All,
My first post here. This curious piece of news turned up in the local papers here. Was trying to find out more about this fishy story when I ended here!
Anyway, as to how the "Sinhala Buddhist religion works" (which might not even be relevant anymore), I'll contribute what I can
Sinhala is the ethnicity. You also get Sri Lankan Tamils, Sri Lankan Muslims etc
Buddhism is the religion. You get Sinhala Catholics, Sinhala Protestants etc
Buddhists are relatively liberal, as opposed to some of the local Muslims. It's acceptable for a Sinhala girl to travel alone, drive around or work at a male dominated environments. You will of course get extreme circumstances in every religion ( Buddhists one being vegan, meditation, dressing modestly etc) but cases of male dominated households where women play the secondary role is rare.
In other words, IF the same incident happened in Sri Lanka, and there a picture of mournful family members, one would expect to see the female members in the photo.
The Sri Lankan community in Australia is quite well connected, although this may not be the case with someone who just migrated (as opposed to the majority who been there for 1-2 generations).
That being said I won't be too surprised to hear of an adult female who has an affair with a man and DIDN'T tell about it to her family because of their disapproval etc. I also wouldn't be surprised to hear of a case where the male members (who takes it upon themselves to be responsible) and have explicitly declared their disapproval regarding a new boyfriend. In other words, I won't be too shocked if a 31 year old Buddhist female was having a secret affair that she hadn't told her family about.
Anyway, these are all just assumptions of stereotypes.
And lastly, some girls change their first name ( shorten it or edit it a bit) when they migrate. Might explain the lack of internet visibility.
I might sound stupid not knowing my own neighbour but there are hundreds of them! Aww..
