You don’t actually know any Sikhs, do you?
You mean like Mahatma Ghandi?
Or any Tamil Tigers either. Or Gurkhas. Or for that matter any Indian policeman.....
Sikhs are very peace-loving but they’re not passive and they’re not wussies. They aren’t Hindu pacifists at all. In fact, Hindi usually isn’t their first language.
Most people in this country know nothing about Sikhs. In fact, some were viciously pursued after 9/11 because some people in this country are so ignorant that they don’t know the difference between a Sikh’s turban and an Arab or Muslim’s shoulder length do-rag.
For an eastern religion, Sikhs are pretty cool. They’re also smart business people, very industrious, and hard-working. They value education, marriage, traditional families, respectful, obedient children, healthy living, cleanliness and taking pride in their property.
As neighbors and people to do business with, I’ll take Sikhs along with my own ethnicity over any others any day.