In Sri Lanka, Sinhala language is the official language of the Nation. Out of the following, with which concept can this example be associated ?

Assimilationist

The concept that best associates with the example of Sinhala being the official language of Sri Lanka is Assimilation. In Srilanka there is a large number of people speaking Tamils. Thus, Sinhala was imposed on the Tamilians which resulted in protests from Tamilians. The civil war that has raged in Sri Lanka since 1983 is partly based on the denial by the majority linguistic group of the rights of the minority. 

Policies of assimilation – often involving outright suppression of the identities of ethnic, religious or linguistic groups – try to erode the cultural differences between groups. Policies of integration seek to assert a single national identity by attempting to eliminate ethno-national and cultural differences from the public and political arena, while allowing them in the private domain. Both sets of policies assume a singular national identity.

Assimilationist and integrationist strategies try to establish singular national identities through various interventions like:

Ø Centralising all power to forums where the dominant group constitutes a majority, and eliminating the autonomy of local or minority groups;

Ø Imposing a unified legal and judicial system based on the dominant group’s traditions and abolishing alternative systems used by other groups;

Ø Adopting the dominant group’s language as the only official ‘national’ language and making its use mandatory in all public institutions;

Ø Promotion of the dominant group’s language and culture through national institutions including state-controlled media and educational institutions;

Ø Adoption of state symbols celebrating the dominant group’s history, heroes and culture, reflected in such things as choice of national holidays or naming of streets etc.;

Ø Seizure of lands, forests and fisheries from minority groups and indigenous people and declaring them ‘national resources’…