Characterized by multitude of names, with which it has been made known to the world as Tear of India, Ceylon, or Sri Lanka. This small island has a huge historical and cultural variety, marked by the different influences that European colonial powers have been impacting on the way or return, of their colonialism throughout the world, coming to conquer it on several occasions, until 1948 when it finally freed from British rule, controlled by the Commonwealth. Since then, Sri Lanka has been dominated by socialist policies, which has caused great economic instability, together with the problems between the two majority populations, Sinhalese and Tamil, has caused a significant delay in development.
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