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 Sardar-a-Phobia
Symptoms Making jokes, films, songs and other medium that portray Sardar, Sikhs in a negative, insulting, ridiculing manner in order to compensate for ones own inadequacies’. Suffers normally go into severe denial when they are told they suffer from this phobia.Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/essays-on-sikhism/28788-sardar-a-phobia.html Causes Causes vary according to personal circumstances: 1) Jealousy – Jealous of the fact that Sardars due to their never say die attitude excel in whatever profession they chose. Be this physical, mental or spiritual. This coupled with the fact that Sardars are often tall, athletic, with a distinctive regal appearance leads some to be jealous rather than be inspired and wanting to be the same. 2) Low Self Esteem– The person feels inferior deep inside when he comes face to face with Sardars. This could affect the sufferer be mentaly, physicaly, or spiritually (or all three). When confronted with the Sardars high self esteem he feels inadequate. 3) Bad Past Experience – The sufferer may have been beaten up either physically, mentally or spiritually (or all three by a Sardar). Rather than reflecting on the cause of this “Bad Past Experience”, the sufferer resorts to character assassination through the “Syptoms”. Cure A short sharp dose of humility, repentance and service at a Sikh Temple for at least a year should cure it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are probably all wondering what is Randip Singh going on about, and what prompted me to write the above is watching a film yesterday called Salam-e-Ishq directed by Nikhil Advani. On two occasions’ Sardars are portrayed as buffoons. On one occasion, the surname of the Sardar is “Makkhad” (like an insect), and on another occasion he is punched by a Mona Delhi Taxi driver in Delhi and the Sardar goes flying. Both are attacks on Sardars and both show the Sardar-a-phobia that the writers and directors have on this film. The latter incident with the taxi driver made me think because 1) A vast amount of taxi drivers in Delhi are Sardars, 2) I have witnessed many disputes with Taxi drivers in Delhi, and I have yet to see a Sardar come worse off. 3) Why Govinda (Ahuja) agreed to do this scene is beyond me, because his paternal side are Punjabi and Sardars too, so he should know better.Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=28788 Anyway enough of my rant.  
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__________________ Randip Singh
Those who renounce meat, and hold their noses when sitting near it, devour men at night.
They practice hypocrisy, and make a show before other people, but they do not understand anything about meditation or spiritual wisdom.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji Page 1289
Fools Who Wrangle Over Flesh
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