Jump to content

Sikh ethnicity


Guest Randomer
 Share

Recommended Posts

Guest Randomer

I’ve noticed in the USA on the census ethnicity is Chinese, Indian etc. Same for Canada. But in England they’re making it so there’s British Indian and British Sikh. In your opinion are Sikhs really genetically different from the rest of Indians (esp Hindu Punjabi’s) and what about non Punjabi Sikhs? What’s your view in this issue

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Guest WJKKWJKF

Sikhi is not an ethnicity.  This is foolish and to me sounds very ignorant.  There a punjabi, jott, kashmiri, caucasian, african-american, arab, etc sikhs!  You can be punjabi and not be of the faith and thereby not sikh.  I can not wrap my head around how foolish the UK government is in all efforts. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

There is probably a hidden agenda by the Brits here (like there isn't always anyway), and some Sikhs over here are probably miffed at being pretty much invisible in any statistical analysis, so there we go.

Certain sections of Sikhs have always played this opportunistic type of identity politics in the west. It was done in America in the past (getting Sikhs defined as caucasians), and race has always been an obsession with Anglos with many Sikhs buying into these ideas (think of all the Aryan, Scythian boll0cks apnay bought into that still defines a lot of pendu brothers in their heads). 

For the record I don't think Sikhs are a race. SIkhi is a belief system, worldview, way of life that has never been restricted along racial lines. Just look at the diverse backgrounds of Guru ji's original panj piaray for example - some of them came from places very far from Panjab. 

There are political reasons for the 'racialising' of the Sikh community that I believe stems from the colonial period when  foreign (and in my mind antiSikh) ideas were brought into the panth by the Brits for a divide and conquer strategy - that some of our  people are still too dumb to comprehend, let alone shake off.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
 Share

  • advertisement_alt
  • advertisement_alt
  • advertisement_alt


  • Topics

  • Posts

    • yeh it's true, we shouldn't be lazy and need to learn jhatka shikaar. It doesn't help some of grew up in surrounding areas like Slough and Southall where everyone thought it was super bad for amrit dharis to eat meat, and they were following Sant babas and jathas, and instead the Singhs should have been normalising jhatka just like the recent world war soldiers did. We are trying to rectifiy this and khalsa should learn jhatka.  But I am just writing about bhog for those that are still learning rehit. As I explained, there are all these negative influences in the panth that talk against rehit, but this shouldn't deter us from taking khanda pahul, no matter what level of rehit we are!
    • How is it going to help? The link is of a Sikh hunter. Fine, but what good does that do the lazy Sikh who ate khulla maas in a restaurant? By the way, for the OP, yes, it's against rehit to eat khulla maas.
    • Yeah, Sikhs should do bhog of food they eat. But the point of bhog is to only do bhog of food which is fit to be presented to Maharaj. It's not maryada to do bhog of khulla maas and pretend it's OK to eat. It's not. Come on, bro, you should know better than to bring this Sakhi into it. Is this Sikh in the restaurant accompanied by Guru Gobind Singh ji? Is he fighting a dharam yudh? Or is he merely filling his belly with the nearest restaurant?  Please don't make a mockery of our puratan Singhs' sacrifices by comparing them to lazy Sikhs who eat khulla maas.
    • Seriously?? The Dhadi is trying to be cute. For those who didn't get it, he said: "Some say Maharaj killed bakras (goats). Some say he cut the heads of the Panj Piyaras. The truth is that they weren't goats. It was she-goats (ਬਕਰੀਆਂ). He jhatka'd she-goats. Not he-goats." Wow. This is possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard in relation to Sikhi.
    • Instead of a 9 inch or larger kirpan, take a smaller kirpan and put it (without gatra) inside your smaller turban and tie the turban tightly. This keeps a kirpan on your person without interfering with the massage or alarming the masseuse. I'm not talking about a trinket but rather an actual small kirpan that fits in a sheath (you'll have to search to find one). As for ahem, "problems", you could get a male masseuse. I don't know where you are, but in most places there are professional masseuses who actually know what they are doing and can really relieve your muscle pains.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Terms of Use