Sikh

One of the soldiers was named Kip, decides to stay at the Villa to try and seize any unexploded ordnances. Kip is an Indian Sikh (is a panentheistic religion that originated in the Punjab Region of the Indian Subcontinent during the 15th century), a Sapper (Combat Engineer), specializes in bomb and ordnance disposal. The English patient and Kip immediately become friends. While…

Over the previous years, the adoption of race by law enforcement agencies in their policing activities has received considerable attention worldwide. I believe that racial profiling is an ineffective law technique that generally leads to unfair treatments and incoherent decision. For more than a century Black men and women traveling through predominantly white neighborhoods were stopped and questioned for no reasons simply because police officers felt they didn't belong there . On February 2009…

scary, because of the shock America had gone. People became terrorized to the point some started attacking innocent people because of their ethnicity. I remember one of my friends dad was attacked because he was wearing a turban, a traditional Sikh headpiece. Most Muslims and south asian backgrounds had to live in the fear of getting sliced by a knife. As I got older I recall the times when women with the hijab another religious head scarf would get cussed at or told to go back to…

societies individual autonomy does not exist because of the social structure. “not everywhere does the social unit provide freedom to the individual or opportunity for spontaneous functioning” (Lee, 5) In her article Lee goes over many cultures such as the Sikh culture, Chinese culture, the Wintu Indian culture and others and sets them as an example in order to prove her belief. Lee uses thes cultures in order to demonstrate a resolution for the key social…

Buddhism and Shintoism. The practices of Shinto and Buddhist are combined together into single religion, with Buddhist temples being built at the sites of important Shinto shrines. There are ethnic minorities in 1% of Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs. The national language of Japan is Japanese. Most of…

“Sir, it is just a random search.” This phrase may be look normal but it has a significant impact on some minorities. Last year, I went to UK to spending my summer vacation with my cousins. On my way to the airport I joked with my cousin that I was going to be picked for a random search because I’m brown and also looked like Muslim. After that I went through security and making sure to take all of the items out of my pocket to go through the scanner. The officers who running the bags through the…

Diversity in India India is an extremely diverse country in Asia. It has many different religions and languages that lead to many problems for the government. In terms of population, it is the world’s largest democracy, according to Masci (2001). The country is relatively new only gaining independence in 1947 from the United Kingdom. India has adopted many of the colonial forms from their previous masters, such as a common law system, a parliament, as well as the English language. The country…

Imagine living a life in which there are people that question your practices or your religious beliefs or because that there are a few people in that group that take it to extreme measures, everyone else judges you for that and looks at your entire community as a threat. Imagine watching the people you are close friends with become distant over some event happening across the world. This is what a fair amount of Muslims have to face. Wether there are events that happened sixteen years ago or…

After his son rebelled, Jahangir turned to the Sikhs rather than Islam, the religion he was promoting previously. Shah Jahan succeeded the throne and wed his mother’s niece. The people suffered under Shah Jahan’s rule. Famine and poverty struck the common people. Aurangzeb became the next ruler after…

publication. The tiny village has peaceful co-existence of different religions like Hindu, Sikh, Muslims, Harijans having no religion and Christians. Such natural was their co-existence that they all take participation in each other’s festivals and rituals. They believe in each other’s gods for escaping from danger and diseases. The author writes, “It is the local deity, the deo to which all the villagers- Hindu, Sikh, Muslim or pseudo Christians- repair secretly whenever they are in a special…