sociology

13
Oct
Colombo street scene showing colonial-era buildings alongside modern billboards and traffic, symbolising Sri Lanka’s layered identity and inherited hierarchies.

Entitlement by Design: Colonial Pipelines and the Psychology of Precedence in Sri Lanka

Entitlement in Sri Lanka is a colonial inheritance — a system designed to reward proximity to power over merit. This essay explores how those hierarchies still shape behaviour and why true reform begins with psychological decolonisation.
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