If you put both of them in front of you could you tell the difference?
It’s like them getting us and Canadians mixed up.
More like getting Mexicans and Americans mixed up. Sri Lankans look very different from most Indians, it's only certain South Indians they look similar to.
Here's a crowd of average Sri Lankans:
Here's a stock photo of an Indian crowd:
Now of course it's "possible" to find Indians who look like Sri Lankans, just like you can find Canadians who look like Mexicans and vice-versa. But the average Sri Lanka wandering through most of India would stick out from appearance, language, and religion.
Punjab fakkits hold ya own nuts
Breh Punjab ain't even CLOSE to Sri Lankan, this is like hearing news about Mexico and mocking them "Quebec a$$holes".
They’re Indians. It’s like saying Sicilians aren’t Italian or Irish aren’t British.
In what world are the Irish "British"? Next are you gonna tell me there's no different between a Cuban and a Jamaican?
People need to calm down in here, to a degree everyone is right
They are literally "Sri Lankans" but the British drew them borders. Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka to some degree all have overlap
It's hundreds of languages and ethnic groups in India alone, a Davidian in the south might have way more in common with a Sri Lankan than with another Punjab "Indian" in the north
Sri Lanka is its own island, the British didn't "draw" that. They have always seen themselves as separate from India - from time to time certain south Indian rulers would invade and conquer them, but each time it was followed by rebellions and independence movements. They were separate from India long before the British or any other European got there. Among other things it's how they stayed majority Buddhist while Buddhism went basically extinct throughout India.