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<span>The colonies developed an ability for self-governing
Basically, the salutary neglect was a policy where the British parliament made laws but didn't enforce them in the colonies. This was meant to help keep the support of the colonists. They governed themselves and this is another reason why the intolerable acts were intolerable. </span>
The main cause of the civil war and strife in Sri Lanka is their ethnic composition: Tamils in the north of the Island, who want independence and Sinhala in the South who want the country to remain united.
There is also a religious difference: the Tamils are predominantly Hindu and the Sinhalese are Buddhist.
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