When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri Lankans in Canada. They have family here and family back home, and it's possible they've lost members in any one of those tremendous, unbearable events there.
One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
You don't know your child until they get here; you don't know their personality.
I consider myself a brown American or a man of color before I would say Sri Lankan, to be honest. I didn't grow up there. There was a pretty brutal civil war there from 1983 until 2009. So we weren't able to go back very much. I've gone back as an adult. But I grew up in Pennsylvania.
An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
India is my kid sister.
Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
Children are all foreigners.