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As Sikh organizations and gurdwaras are making the Sikhs living in the United Kingdom (UK) aware of their ethnic identity and encouraging them not to classify ethnically as “Indian” in the online census, the Akal Takht Sahib has also asked the community members to fill the column related to ethnicity with “Sikh”, not “India”.
The Census is commencing on March 21. As few days are left for it, the Sikh leaders in Britain are on their toes to alert the community and convince them that mentioning themselves as “Sikh” in this column will help the community get rid of many problems and establish a distinct identity in the world.
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Why “Sikh” is the right response to the “Ethnicity” column! – Gurtej Singh
The question of ethnicity is posing a huge problem for our brothers and sisters in the United Kingdom, who will be shortly called upon to declare their faith and ethnicity in the approaching Census operation. The dictionary meaning of ethnicity is straightforward. It is “the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural traditions.” On the surface, it seems quite innocuous. Nevertheless, the word seeks to emphasize differentiation amongst humans based on social behavior or racial origin, and geographical location. Probed further, the word will be discovered to have been at least given a distinct meaning by Eurocentric scholars overfilled with the notion of superiority. In recent centuries, racial theories have been much downgraded as indicators of human groups’ civilizational level. DNA studies, for instance, seek to establish a common origin for the entir
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