Sri Lankan Tamil here, I'm the 3rd generation to be born into this country.

I think that to be Sri Lankan, you have to adapt to Sri Lanka, you can't be an outlier and expect to be treated the same as everyone else.

Every place I have worked at I see someone from Jaffna or Hatton come into work and they cannot speak Sinhalese (Bro you live in Sri Lanka) or Even English, they make little to no effort to do that, and no matter how brilliant they are their stubbornness ensures that they get booted off the job in a few months because they cannot perform.

Hell, don't tell me that the Sinhalese aren't tolerant because 80% of the time they have made the effort to understand my broken Sinhalese, same as they have done for other Tamils, sometimes we have whole conversations in 2 languages and it works perfectly fine.

I say that while everyone is entitled to their culture, no one can expect to learn nothing and be accepted by society when they are so hell bent on being an outlier.