From the point of the nation, there is a rapidly growing distance between the promiscuous space of free trade and tourism where national disciplines are often relaxed, and the spaces of national security and ideological reproduction, which may be increasingly nativized, authenticated, and culturally marked. Thus the Sri Lankan state encourages a remarkable cultural promiscuity and “inauthenticity” in its beach resorts (which are now explicity pushed into a translocal Caribbean-style aesthetic) while intensively nationalizing other spaces, which are carefully marked for enacting “Sinhala” national development and “Buddhist” national memory.