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As Ondaatje reflects on Ceylon’s colonial history, he remarks that one of the distinguishing characteristics of the “foreigners,” the colonizers, is that they tend to only stay for short periods rather than making Ceylon their true home. In addition to Ondaatje’s argument that none of the Europeans truly understood Ceylon beyond its aesthetic beauty, this statement suggests that Ceylon only belongs to the people who endure its heat and environment, and who embrace its native people to make the island their home. Since all of Ceylon’s ethnic groups have European blood mixed in—the Ondaatje family has Dutch heritage, for example—there…