In the
article “Haircuts or Turbans” published from New York Times, the author, Amelia Gentleman discusses how the men
and women of India and throughout the world are losing the tradition to have
long hair and turbans and they are trying to find a way to prevent it. A lot of the
Indians said that keeping their long hair was taking up so much of their time
because they had to wash it and take care of it. Singh cut his hair and he said
“”I felt smarter without it.”” This is a problem for India because it’s causing
the spiritual leaders to feel like they can do nothing about the situation.
They have given up. The turban pride has gone way down. Jaswinder Singh said
that “The dwindling number of the turban wearers reflects less of a loss of
spirituality than increasing Westernization and the accelerating pace of Indian
life.” Indians were leaving their turbans behind to protect themselves because of
the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984. After this, so many
of the Sikhs have been traveling around the world but the problem was that the
security guards accidentally thought they were turban wearing Taliban. They were
beat up for no reason. The people of India had many ways of trying to revive
the Sikh heritage. They offered classes to help tie the turban around the guy’s
heads and they are making contests to help make the turban more seen as a
fashion item.
I did not know that so many Indian people were losing their way of
culture. I just thought they were wearing the Turbans because that was part of
their culture. I wasn’t very surprised when I heard that they were leaving
their turbans behind because of the assassination. I would have done the same
thing. Something that did surprise me was that the kids are saying lies because
they think they are smarter without their long hair. This is not true. They are
just probably trying harder in school. Something that I found interesting was
the promoting of the turbans to try and revive their culture. I thought that
was very cool. However, this is still a bad situation for Sikhs because they
are losing their culture and need to find a way to get it back.
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