No matter one is black or dark, longing to become lighter or white is been deeply rooted by various social and cultural means. Here the male says to marriage broker that she is darker than him which implies that he is himself dark as well. Fixing himself as the thresh hold has to do with his position of power as the possible decision maker of that “marriage”. What could be read in-between the lines is that he himself is a victim of the deep-rooted institutionalised processes of “becoming White” ,which is a process that fixes “Whiteness” as the norm and something superior to the “Other” by losing or reducing his own identity in order to submit to it. The Construction and the maintenance of both the “Sinhaleseness” and “Whiteness” function here as a symbiotic process that nurture each other. - Santhush Pararajasingam
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 10:32:40 +0000
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