In the
article “Haircuts or Turbans” Published in New York Times, the author, Amelia
Gentleman talks about how young Sikhs’ are starting to get away from tradition
and moving towards style. India is
continuing to decrease the amount of Sikhs’ who wear Turbans. One cause of this is due to the increase of
westernization in India. "Jaswinder Singh, a lawyer and leader of a turban pride
movement, estimates that half of India's Sikh men now forgo the turban." Turban promoters want the Turbans to be used
again. They now try and sell a Turban as
a fissionable item to wear. Since women
teach their kids less and less about wearing a Turban, they now give young boys
free lessons on how to wear one. By
doing this they hope they can increase the amount of people to wear Turbans
again. India has also tried to use pop
stars to sing about wearing Turbans to show young people that it is still a
popular thing to wear. This hasn’t
seemed to be working well either. India
just might be in some big trouble. They may lose the Turban for good.
One thing
that puzzled me about this article is when they were talking about westernization. It seems like to me that they don’t want to
westernize, but isn’t that a good thing.
“How important is a Turban actually to an Indian?” For my religion, being Jewish I wear a Kippah
when I go to temple, but I don't where on anywhere else. Maybe that is what India should start doing. Have people where Turbans in the Masks but
not anywhere else. They still can sell
them for being fissionable. I am very
positive that this idea would work, because right now half of the Indians are
not even wearing them. Since women teach
less and less about wearing a Turban to kids. I really think there isn’t much India can do for
the future, unless they become some kind of dictatorship. Overall I was very intrigued reading this
article.
I agree with you. I think that they should start wearing their turbans at the mosques/temples but not anywhere else. If that's what the person wants, then they can do it. Something I found interesting was that the Indian people were trying to make the turbans as a fashion item. I thought that was a cool idea. I was wondering if you knew anybody who actually doesn't where their turban to school, but they do where it to the mosque/temple they go to? I thought your article was very interesting to read. I also have the same experience as you because I am also Jewish and I wear a kippah when I go to temple. It is to show my respect to everyone else, my religion and the things I believe in.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it should be a choice if they want or don't want to wear the turban. I'm catholic and I don't wear a rosary at all. That is my choice of how I represent my religion. I understand if it has to do with history and what not, but it shouldn't be forced upon them.
ReplyDeleteI thought you did a great job explaining what this article was about. I was really interested in what you had to say about only wearing the turbans temporary instead of getting rid of them for good, I feel as if they are a pig part in their culture, it definitely could cause a lot of trouble and its something they believe in instead of them not having them at all anymore.
ReplyDelete