Sikh

As a person who comes from two different cultural and racial backgrounds, I decided to make my topic of my kinship chart about race. Knowing what it feels like to be half-Sikh and half-Hindu, I am able to get a point of view of both racial perspectives of myself. As my kinship chart shows, my mother is Sikh and my father is Hindu. However, for reasons being, I was taken out of their custody when I was seven years old, along with my younger sister. Thus my grandparents were able to gain custody…

we are equal. Sikhism has evolved and changed when Sikhs became oppressed and the sixth Guru, Guru Hargobind, started to form a military within the community. Sikhs live and practice and peaceful life even during strong Political powers take over like Moghal Emperor, Aurangzeb, who tried to force everyone to convert to Islam. Eventually the tenth Guru Gobind Singh had created a military group of men and women called the Khalsa so that Sikhs will forever be able to protect their religion and…

123(3) can be committed by a candidate by appealing to the voters to vote for him on the ground of his religion even though his rival candidate may belong to the same religion. In the instant case both the appellant as well as the respondent were Sikhs. The facts were that the appellant who was elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly by defeating the respondent had stood for election on the Akali Dal ticket. The respondent represented the Congress…

A) A rite of passage is a ceremony or event that imposes a new stage in someone’s life. A rite of passage that I have witnessed is a Sikh funeral. The Sikhs believe in the cycle of life where they are reincarnated for the afterlife. They believe that their soul goes through many different life forms as the cycle of life continues until it becomes one with God. Sikhs funerals are done into two stages, the cremation, and the final prayer. Before the cremation ceremony, the body is washed and…

The Hate Cries Prevention Act (HPCA) defines hate violence as a violent act committed to a person due his or her gender, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, and disability. (Iyer, 22) In We Too Sing America, Deepa Iyer states that the multiple “root causes that lead to hate violence” listed earlier are the “racist and xenophobic attitudes and beliefs we hold about one another”. (Iyer, 23) Iyer goes on to affirm that these root causes for hate violence is only reinforced…

Impact of Policies Policies can have significant effects on the public services, the government can create new laws that affect all the public services such as the armed services and also it will affect all the emergency services. Human rights – the public services have a lot of control over our lives as they have the power to take our independence away and also to investigate our private lives, they can use the information they find against us. However, in order for these powers to be…

SIKH CULTUREWhile caring for a patient in the hospital, one very important thing that a nurse needs to be is culturally competent. In caring for someone from the Sikh community the nurse must respect privacy, the fact that the patient may want to stay as covered up as possible, allowing ample time for prayer, trying to plan out the patient care around prayer times, avoid any unnecessary touching, respecting personal space, be knowledgeable of the Sikh’s five K’s as mentioned earlier in the…

same attitude as Muslims. Sikh, group of religion founded in Punjab ,where the men who dress, looks very similar to Muslims had gotten so many troubles due to their appearance. “ one pulled his bread and then attackers punched and kicked him repeatedly.”( Basu,1) A man share how he got called name and attacks by a group of boys. But that still not the worse that had happened. The worst that can happen is not only getting attacks but also getting killed. ” An Indian Sikh immigrant was gunned…

with economics. They get to choose who they want and manage the house hold.  In the fight for independence the Sikh religion from India had to challenge the British forces to liberate themselves from western control. The British fought for control in the state of Panjab where it is said to be the city of rebellion against the Durbar court they would be less outnumbered by the Sikh army but the British had a disadvantage over their leadership, influence, and occupying them due to their supply…

Pakistan, and tells the story of this event through the eyes of a young Parsee girl named Lenny. Lenny is just a child at this time, and she must watch in horror as her country falls and a very large religious divide occurs between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs in India. We are able to see the fate of the people living in Lahore during the partition and the consequences of the religiously motivated violence and attacks committed by these three religious groups living in this region. Deepa Mehta’s…