Sinhalese nationalist purity tests dismiss co-ethnics with anglicized backgrounds.

Evidence

Many among Rajapakse’s advisors and die-hard supporters consider themselves true sons of the soil and dismiss the Sinhalese Buddhist credentials even of past presidents J. R. Jayewardene and Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga because they had anglicized (and hence pseudo-Buddhist) backgrounds and their ancestors colluded with the colonizers. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 299

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to reader’s question of whether professed conviction predicts behavior — here the conviction standard is applied inward, creating intra-ethnic hierarchy that parallels purity tests in other nationalist and religious movements. — connects to: Marginalized groups can weaponize purity discourse to contest nationalist inclusion — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3260; Sinhalese nationalist violence against Christians is opportunistic rather than primordial — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 245; Sinhala language conflates nation, race, and people so deeply that multiethnic polity seems incomprehensible — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 190

Broader Connections

• Marginalized groups can weaponize purity discourse to contest nationalist inclusion #corroborates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3260
• Sinhalese nationalist violence against Christians is opportunistic rather than primordial #corroborates (0.78) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 245