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Question
Assertion (A): Both, Sri Lanka and Belgium faced challenges of ethnic and linguistic diversity.
Reason (R): Sri Lanka had majority of Tamils whereas Belgium had majority of French speaking people.
Options
Both, (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Both, (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(A) is true, but (R) is false.
(A) is false, but (R) is true.
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Solution
(A) is true, but (R) is false.
Explanation:
Both Sri Lanka and Belgium had significant societal issues due to their different populations. However, Reason (R) is false because it misidentifies the dominant groups; in truth, Sinhala-speakers are the majority in Sri Lanka, whereas Dutch-speakers are the majority in Belgium. As a result, while the assertion is true, the provided reason is factually false.
