Cost of living greatly increasing

[MisterrSingh]

Yes, my shopping bill has shot up. I'm paying almost double for the same items I bought a few weeks earlier at normal prices. If this goes on any longer I'll need to start eating my Weetabix in water.

[Ranjeet01]

There are people who have bought a lot of land but their children show absolutely no interest. 

You then hear them say," What was the point, it's not that they are going to ever go back!"

[BhForce]

Just now, Ranjeet01 said:

There are people who have bought a lot of land but their children show absolutely no interest. 

You then hear them say," What was the point, it's not that they are going to ever go back!"

Thus making it a self-fulfilling prophecy. The Jews have it right where they fund going to Israel for Jewish American teenagers. And they don't have to "go back" permanently. Just maintain links. Go there every year during summer vacation. 

Visit historic Gurdwaras. And extended family. Help poor people. Practice your Punjabi. Worship.

[proactive]

19 minutes ago, Ranjeet01 said:

There are people who have bought a lot of land but their children show absolutely no interest. 

You then hear them say," What was the point, it's not that they are going to ever go back!"

You can't expect children raised in the west to have an interest in Punjab unless the parents actually make an effort to take them back every few years and meet relatives as well as show them what land the family own. No one expects them to go back to live there but having a base in Punjab is important given what has been happening around the world. It is much easier to maintain contact with relatives with Punjab given technology such as whatsapp etc. 

[proactive]

20 minutes ago, BhForce said:

Thus making it a self-fulfilling prophecy. The Jews have it right where they fund going to Israel for Jewish American teenagers. And they don't have to "go back" permanently. Just maintain links. Go there every year during summer vacation. 

Visit historic Gurdwaras. And extended family. Help poor people. Practice your Punjabi. Worship.

Very true, lots of Jews bought up in the west go on these trips to Israel and thus create links to the land even though their family may not even have any links to Israel. Also a lot of them join the Israel Defence Force as 'lone soldiers' meaning that they join for a year and serve and they thus meet other Jews from outside Israel as well as Israeli Jews. This creates a solidarity among them with other Jews as well as with Israel. This also opens an avenue for them to make 'Aliyah' or migration to Israel at some future date. 

[Ranjeet01]

1 hour ago, proactive said:

You can't expect children raised in the west to have an interest in Punjab unless the parents actually make an effort to take them back every few years and meet relatives as well as show them what land the family own. No one expects them to go back to live there but having a base in Punjab is important given what has been happening around the world. It is much easier to maintain contact with relatives with Punjab given technology such as whatsapp etc. 

The only time people go back for the most part is for weddings. 

Also, when people start moving out of Punjab and people have far less relatives and then you have the question , " There's nobody left there, what is there to go back to?"

[MisterrSingh]

Punjab is overall viewed as a low status destination. Unless you have a thriving ancestral heritage it's going to be difficult to sell an excursion over there to someone from a Sikh background who errs toward coconut-punna. Heck, even bana-dumalla wearing Western born Sikhs would rather go to Dubai or the Seychelles than venture to Punjab. 

Plus, I think the days of fat NRI Sikh girls being cajoled into going back to find a desi Punjabi husband are long gone, which was kind of one of the last threads  of maintaining East-West relations between the two locations. So, thanks to feminism and the fat positivity movement that's emboldened low status women to believe they're 10/10s, Sikhi is suffering. Thank you Marxists (!)

[Ranjeet01]

18 minutes ago, MisterrSingh said:

Punjab is overall viewed as a low status destination. Unless you have a thriving ancestral heritage it's going to be difficult to sell an excursion over there to someone from a Sikh background who errs toward coconut-punna. Heck, even bana-dumalla wearing Western born Sikhs would rather go to Dubai or the Seychelles than venture to Punjab. 

Plus, I think the days of fat NRI Sikh girls being cajoled into going back to find a desi Punjabi husband are long gone, which was kind of one of the last threads  of maintaining East-West relations between the two locations. So, thanks to feminism and the fat positivity movement that's emboldened low status women to believe they're 10/10s, Sikhi is suffering. Thank you Marxists (!)

Going to Punjab is not considered a holiday.

[proudkaur21]

46 minutes ago, Ranjeet01 said:

The only time people go back for the most part is for weddings. 

Also, when people start moving out of Punjab and people have far less relatives and then you have the question , " There's nobody left there, what is there to go back to?"

maybe that's how people who are not into Sikhi think. The materialistic kind. I will go back to Punjab because it's the land of our Gurus. Also we dont know what will happen in a decade. Maybe things start getting better maybe worse. Anything can happen in a few years.

[MisterrSingh]

1 hour ago, Ranjeet01 said:

Going to Punjab is not considered a holiday.

It's an ordeal to be overcome; stressful even if you've got all the mod-cons over there which most people do. It's just not a "holiday destination" that's conducive to unwinding, shanti, relaxation, etc. Family politics probably contributes to that as well. Expensive, too. You get very little in return for the huge sums of money spent on travel and costs while in Punjab.