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Posted on 11/08/2009 12:38:54 PM PST by JoeProBono
To 12-year-old Suzannah Pabla, piercing her nose was a way to connect with her roots in India. To Suzannah's school, it was a dress-code violation worthy of a suspension.
To other Indians, the incident was emblematic of how it can still be difficult for the American melting pot to absorb certain aspects of their cultural and religious traditions.
Suzannah was briefly suspended last month from her public school in Bountiful, Utah, for violating a body-piercing ban.......
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That’s a weird article; photos of her dad, but none of her. WEIRD.
I see a guy with a piercing he is basically saying please rip it out, I won’t offer any resistance.
What is it with that disgusting practice, anyway?
Last night, on the Baltimore, MD, news, there were man-on-the-street interviews in a report about a fire that destroyed some condos. One guy has something poking out of his face, midway between his bottom lip and his chin. He looked as if he had hammered a 4-inch aluminum nail into his face from the inside of his mouth.
What is the word coming to?
First, these kids pierce their noses and the next thing you know, they will be piercing their ears and who knows what else!
Suzannah's father, Amardeep Singh, a Sikh who was raised in the United States and works as an English professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.
Very odd article! I can’t make sense of it. Why was this a big deal? A nose piercing seems fairly common in my South Asian female colleagues. To them it is the SAME as ear piercing.
It is NOT religious or compulsory. It is a beauty thing for them. That is an IMPORTANT distinction. If there was a fundamendalist requirement (like Hijab) then sure ban it.
But, in such cases, while I don’t find it attractive, I guess Indian women and men do. It seems very discreet. If you ever have been to an Indian wedding you will notice every Indian female bar none has a nose ring.
It is good for us to push for Western values on crazy folks who do thing like honor killings and hijab and sex with goats.
However, let us not become a country that does not let fairly harmless cultural customs be banned. This Zero Tolerance society we are becoming is dangerous.
We should fight the hijab not the nose ring.
Just my 2 rupees!!
(P.S. Color me STUNNED that the father is a turbaned Sikh. From my many Sikh friends I have learned that Sikhs are like Mormons and do not like to “deface” the body whether with tattoos or piercings)
Would she?
“I wanted to feel more closer to my family in India because I really love my family,” said Suzannah....
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She wanted to feel “more closer”? Her father is an English professor, BTW.
He sounds like a real gem, as well. He wears a turban and then complains that people don’t see him as a real American and presume that he is “an immigrant, a foreigner”. He whines about always feeling like an outsider, even in his own country.
I guess the rest of us are supposed to start wearing turbans so he won’t feel bad.
I have no problem with this as long as India will invite our kids to go to school in their contry and be allwed to carry big boom boxes that play bluegrss music, hand out jesus tracks and wear crosses, and offer to serve our kids free school lunches of chipped beef.
Sikhs are cool. They are not Muslims—in fact, they’ve had bloody wars with the Muslims—and have always been extremely tough and loyal fighters. In the British Empire, the Sikh troops were considered the toughest and most determined. They make very good U.S. citizens. They’re smart and hard-working and they never ask for handouts, language concessions, or other forms of assistance and special tolerance.
The trouble is, their religion dictates that the men never cut their hair and must always keep it wrapped up in a turban. This causes them to be confused with Muslims, and some people are unjustly prejudiced against them because they imagine that if a guy is wearing a turban, he must necessarily be a Muslim.
Indians? Utah?
AT first, I thought people were talking about Utes, or Goshutes, or Paiutes, or Navajo, or Shoshones
But Hindustani Sihk Indians?
Sikhs are fierce fighters against the muslims. A lot of people don’t know that.
My 98 year old Mom had a health problem and ended up in a care center for about a month. Her stay was successful partly because of the great PT she got and partly because she and the Indian born Phy. Therp. (He was a PT major and Eng Lit minor)discussed Englisl Lit., the same books that my Son was teaching at the Naval Academy! COOL!
Sikh Temple of Utah 4897 South Redwood Road Salt Lake City, Utah 84123
The piercing is nothing...talk about a “power brow”!
She could put a bone through it for all I care.
Piercing is stupi IMO, but who am I to say some idiot cant do it.
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