Contrasts: Part I

True native local rites and traditions:

vs. culture-cringe self-alienation:

I could see the argument from the sheer inertia of tradition if there was a continuous practice of the Old Rite in (in this case) Sri Lanka. But, the fact is, it's been the Novus Ordo for 40 years now. So, at this point, if we're going to have to "restore" something either way...they might as well take that opportunity, that fresh slate as it were, to restore a Syro-Indian rite proper to that geographic patriarchate (which it always should have had), and not some medieval European colonial thing...