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posted by Louise at 7:59 am
Friday, February 11, 2011
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- Name: Louise
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2 Comments:
This really appears to me to be a manufactured issue on the part of a tiny minority of Sikhs in Quebec.
The reason I say that is this:
For about 20 years, I lived in Yuba City, Calif, which has the largest Sikh community on the West Coast. They also have the largest Sikh temple in the world outside of India. When I left in the mid-90's, their already well-established community was integrated into the community, with many Sikhs having become small merchants, farm owners, etc. They seem to be natural entrepreneurs-intelligent, hard-working, honest, law-abiding folks.
In all the years I lived there, I can't ever remember an incidence of a Sikh being written up in the crime section of the local newspaper. They have a strong sense of family honor and responsibility. Someone who commits a crime would shame and dishonor not just himself but his entire family. As far as responsibility, I worked at a local bank then and I can't recall ever when a Sikh loan became a problem account. By their view (like the Amish here in Pa)if a person had financial problems, he's expected to go to his family. If a family is having financial problems, they're expected to go to their temple for help. For the same reasons, they don't accept any public welfare.)
With the exception of the turban which almost all male Sikhs wear, they're thoroughly Americanized in clothing. And it wasn't unusual to see younger, second generation Sikh men not even wearing a turban. (Some beautiful women, too..but I digress :-)
AND...I can never remember an instance in all those years of seeing a Sikh wearing a Kirpan in public. Never, outside of their representations in regular local parades, in which the entire community participated. In these parades, they'd often have Sikh men in traditional Sikh Indian outfits, often with either Kirpans or swords.
Here's a link to a page showing many photos of Sikhs at their Yuba City temple and in local community parades. Note that outside of the men in ceremonial outfits, you don't see any Sikh men wearing Kirpans.
As I said at the beginning, this really seems to me to be a manufactured issue on the part of a tiny minority of radical Sikhs, somebody with an agenda.
I'm sure you're right. I've known several Sikhs, too, and some, but not all, wear the turban and none wear the kirpan.
And they are all hard working professionals of one sort or another, but then again, maybe that was a reflection of our old immigration policy.
Back a long time ago, you had to have a marketable skill in order to get in. I don't know what's happened with that, but one of the problems was that immigration bureaucracies and professional associations apparently weren't talking to one another and many people arrived believing they could practice their professions, only to discover, their creds weren't recognized in Canada.
I think we still have problems with that, which ought to be a fairly simple thing to straighten out, so that at least would-be immigrants know what they have to do to bring their credentials up to Canadian standards.
Seems very unfair to let them arrive here without the benefit of that knowledge. If they need to upgrade, they can, but at least they should be made aware of that prior to applying for landed immigrant status.
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