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The Bitter Truth of Fake Reality

Once I saw a cartoon in a newspaper, a dog with a pc connected to online saying to another dog ‘they don’t know that, we are dogs’. I would like to begin my blog from this point.

You have been seeing me in my profile as a person from London, UK. You may think I am native Englishman. But some members could be surprised by this, because they know me for the last 10 months as a citizen of Sri Lanka and my hometown as well. Am I confusing you? Do I am an Englishmen who lived in Sri Lanka or a Sri Lankan migrated to UK. None of the both, I am still in Sri Lanka and breathing the salty wind of my hometown, Puttalam. Then what makes me to change my country?

To proof the bitter truth of fake reality that, ‘a dog may not known as a dog, in this virtual world!’ Anyone can pretend as anyone from any part of this world. It doesn’t mean that particular person represents his country, nationality, ethnicity, tribe or any deviations.

Many old members would understand what I am trying to proof. But it needs a brief explanation for new members.

I have witnessed a regular sequence in the main chat. It begins with an ‘Arabic’ name spoiling the main. That ‘Arabic name’ does spamming, use dirty words, start quarrels and unhealthy arguments. Suddenly another ‘non Arabic’ name jumps to the main by blaming and insulting the language of that name, a religion of a belief, a region, a race, a tribe and all other which are known in general belongs and connected to that ‘Arabic name’. The wonder is the blamer, who hangs on the name panel in silence, for hours until the ‘Arabic name’ spams the main. Is this a coincidence? A famous saying in our country could be a good reply: ‘A fruit falls each time when a crow lands on the branch.’

Therefore, this could not be a coincidence. This may do by a single person with two IDs. or by group of people. Do they do this for fun or to hurt others feelings or to sabotage the site?

The reason could be any, but two major defects occur by these misbehaviours. First, the harmony of atmosphere collapses. While arguments and defending roses, hurricane of dirty words smashes the main. Second is worst, it scares new members and pull them out to search for another English learning site.

Are we sure that, there no any agents of competitive sites in the main? Aren’t they fetching members from EC to their sites? ‘When pages of calendar turn by currency notes, hypocrisy became a capitol investment’

As my conclusive decision, I would like to point them out as below:

• The name does not represent the person, in meanwhile judging an ideology by a single person’s behavior is not just.
• Insulting a particular group of people won’t be a solution, though it drives both parties more arrogant on their ideologies.
• This site is for learning, neither for backbiting nor anyone in a need of knowing what is in the other corner, as that ‘dog’ cartoon.

Let we learn, let others to learn.