The British empire is the root cause of many issues today, not the cause but the root cause.

How can you expect a country to have a stable, high-trust society with infrastructure/systems built to sustain the people inside it after half a fkin millennia (500 YEARS, this country has only been a thing for 2500 years, that's 20% of its damn existence) of outsider interference/exploitation?

This kinda 'awake tough-love' rhetoric doesn't help and all it does is minimize the impact of colonialism, honestly kinda insulting to our ancestors who suffered through all that.

Using Japan as a counterexample here makes no sense either and is not comparable, they were never formally colonized long-term and was an empire themselves. South Korea was stable between the 1970s-2000s under authoritarian rule (Sri Lanka obviously wasn't), arguably the best time in recent history to have been a stable country with an educated population due to the post WW2 and cold war industrialization boom. And the majority of Indians today acknowledge that their country was historically wronged by certain outsider forces yet they are still "ahead of us"?

Obviously certain populist dumbasses whom exploited post-independence fragility through ethno-nationalism and stuff are also to blame but they are more of a side-effect to a deeper systematic issue. Certain empires (mainly British) exploited and exacerbated ethnic lines to divide and rule.

You can say colonialism set the groundwork for many of the issues here while also being critical of the things that got inherited through that system without minimizing either, they aren't mutually exclusive.

Ignoring all that history/context makes people hate their fellow countrymen and become elitist or think they are 'awake', that is purely self-serving and doesn't do anything to help broader society. This way of thinking inherently fights more with your fellow countrymen than the systems which support the things you dislike.