It's an interesting thing about Tamil — Indians (or at least some Indians) say that Sri Lankan Tamils speak the same language as us and so they are our brothers/sisters.

And yet, when they show Sri Lankan Tamils in Tamil/Indian movies, they always speak a variant of Tamil that sets them apart. Even weirder still, the Tamil they speak sounds weird to me since I’ve never heard that kind of Tamil from any of the Sri Lankan Tamil people I’ve talked to/associated with 😛

So why use this weird Tamil? Is that shorthand for “they are different than us”? And if yes, isn’t that lazy? And also possibly breaks the whole “they are our brethren” sentiment?

I don’t know … People are strange … And of course, movies are stranger still 😀

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