The second step included an analysis of the discursive practices of the interviewees, i.e., discourses and genres from which they drew on when answering the questions – this allowed the research team to investigate the ways in which the interviewees perceived the mural wave, and the perceived roles of youth and the state therein. [...] memorialisation of the triumphalist narrative by the state mirrored in the mural wave at large, it is The perceived politicisation of the mural wave implicit that the dominant narrative of the state is reflects the state’s role in incorporating the skewed towards the majoritarian narrative. [...] It is The process of producing the murals and its in this context that the mediation of content and incorporation as a tool in agenda setting by way agenda by the state undermines the authenticity of politicisation has both immediate and long-term of the reflections of youth identity through the implications on the aspects of identity creation. [...] In order to prevent erasure of the root causes of the ethnic conflict of further framing of the minds of the youth, one of the Sri Lanka, within the history curricula, has resulted respondents emphasised the need to foster critical in a regime of truth sustained by a selective history thinking within the education system. [...] The latter could perhaps be due to the absence of a heavy presence of English in the state apparatus, for the state has the power to appropriate and dismantle narratives and discourses within the Sinhala language, for it is the language of the majority.
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