At my school, there is an extremely large amount of punjabis.....but very few sikhs...
back when i was in elementary school there was a bunch of girls eating pizza that had meat on it, and one of them happened to go to my punjabi skool. i asked them y they were eating meat and didnt say anything. i told them that they shouldnt call themselves sikh and one of them asked why not.
i told her she was doing the exact same thing that the guru said not to.
she said that she was only doing one wrong thing.
then i asked her y she cut her hair..and she sat there dumbstruck..she was like..well i to paht sometimes......
i staredat them with pity
one day i happened to notice 2 kids talking beside me. one was telling the other to cut his hair. the other kid said that he would if the other did. soo the next day i saw one of the two boys had cut his hair
later, i made a comment that people throw around the name of Sikh like its a toy and that just cuz ur born in2 a sikh family that dosnt make you a sikh. one boy got angry at this and said "just cuz i eat meat that dosnt mean im not a sikh!"
recently i was appalled at wut people said: one boy called me a 'giani' and apparently to them that's something reely bad....i wondered if they even knew wut a giani was!
last year i did a project on Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale at school and before my presentation one punjabi kid asked me who "the guy on my poster" was. NOT ONE PERSON KNEW WHO HE WAS!
I find, it annoying and distressing that children who are raised in sikh familiees dont even knoew who they are!