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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 115210" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>You might have read the story of the English Literature professor at Lehigh College, a Sikh born in the US, whose daughter, Suzannah Pabla, was expelled from a school in Utah for wearing a nose-ring. She wanted to be closer to her culture. </p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>The story starts out like this</strong> </p><p></p><p><em><span style="color: Blue">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.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: Blue"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: Blue">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.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: Blue"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: Blue">Suzannah was briefly suspended last month from her public school in Bountiful, Utah, for violating a body-piercing ban. School officials — who noted that nose piercing is an Indian cultural choice, not a religious requirement — compromised and said she could wear a clear, unobtrusive stud in her nose, and Suzannah returned to her seventh-grade class.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: Blue"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: Blue">"I wanted to feel more closer to my family in India because I really love my family," said Suzannah, who was born in Bountiful. Her father was born in India as a member of the Sikh religion.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: Blue"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: Blue">"I just thought it would be OK to let her embrace her heritage and her culture," said Suzannah's mother, Shirley Pabla, a Mormon born in nearby Salt Lake City. "I didn't know it would be such a big deal."</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: Blue"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: Blue"><strong>It shouldn't have been, said 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.</strong></span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></em><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="color: Black">Wrong guy! Amardeep Singh is not Suzanna's father. He just happened to be interviewed by the AP reporter about the story. Here is Amardeep Singh telling us what happened in his blog. </span></span><strong><span style="color: DarkRed"> Nose-Piercing, Utah, and a Big Oops (Not Mine) [Updated] </span></strong></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: DarkRed">On Thursday, I spoke to an AP reporter about a story in Utah last week, expressing some views about a girl in middle school in Utah who got suspended from her school for violating dress code, after getting her nose pierced. She and her family said she did it to get in touch with her Indian cultural identity -- she had the piercing done on Diwali just a couple of weeks ago. The school, however, had a strict "ear pierces only" policy, and was only willing to allow her to have a "transparent" stud in her nose, not the more obviously Indian nose ring she wore to school initially. </span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g_RVkRyq5w3swuwmZ5xS1jk5M7dAD9BRHB7O2" target="_blank">Here</a> is the AP story that resulted. It's been printed in a fair number of newspapers around the country. The reporter quotes Abhi (from Sepia Mutiny), Sandhya (also from Sepia Mutiny), and myself. But something goes wrong here:</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: DarkRed"> "I wanted to feel more closer to my family in India because I really love my family," said Suzannah, who was born in Bountiful. Her father was born in India as a member of the Sikh religion.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: DarkRed">"I just thought it would be OK to let her embrace her heritage and her culture," said Suzannah's mother, Shirley Pabla, a Mormon born in nearby Salt Lake City. "I didn't know it would be such a big deal."</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: DarkRed">It shouldn't have been, said 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. "It's true that the nose ring is mainly a cultural thing for most Indians," Singh said. "Even if it is just culture, culture matters. And her right to express or explore it seems to me at least as important as her right to express her religious identity." (<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g_RVkRyq5w3swuwmZ5xS1jk5M7dAD9BRHB7O2" target="_blank">link</a>)</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">Um, wait a minute. Did I read that right? Take a look at it again: "...said <strong>Suzannah's father, Amardeep Singh</strong>, a Sikh who was raised in the United States..." </span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">[UPDATED: The error has been corrected in the online version of this article.] </span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">This is a really bizarre and unfortunate error. Just to be clear, I have one kid, and he's three years old. I am annoyed on my own behalf, but I also feel bad for the Pablas. (Suzannah has a dad, who is a practicing Sikh. It just so happens that most of the coverage of this story in the local Utah newspapers doesn't mention his name: <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13654862" target="_blank">see the Salt Lake Tribune</a>, for example)</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">When I spoke to the reporter who authored this story, he was 100% clear that I was in no way related to the Pablas. Somewhere between that conversation and the story that has now run in 200+ newspapers around the country, that important fact fell out. I don't know who's responsible for the error -- it appears it's an editor who might have come up with this. </span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">In the end, it's not really that big a deal; the only people who will really think anything is amiss are people who know the Pablas and people who know me. Still, maybe the moral here is to JUST SAY NO when reporters call you for a quote for a story that doesn't really involve you directly. </span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">If there is a bright side of this, it's that I got to be photographed by a professional photographer:</span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/slideshow/ALeqM5g_RVkRyq5w3swuwmZ5xS1jk5M7dAD9BRHB7O2?index=0" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5iK296Coz69kWExkj1oyYQXm_dtcw?size=s2" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p>In this Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, photo, Professor Amardeep Singh sits in his office at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. (AP Photo Carolyn Kaster)</p><p></p><p></p><p>Source at this link:</p><p><a href="http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Eamsp/blog.html" target="_blank">Amardeep Singh</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 115210, member: 35"] You might have read the story of the English Literature professor at Lehigh College, a Sikh born in the US, whose daughter, Suzannah Pabla, was expelled from a school in Utah for wearing a nose-ring. She wanted to be closer to her culture. [B] The story starts out like this[/B] [I][COLOR=Blue]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. School officials — who noted that nose piercing is an Indian cultural choice, not a religious requirement — compromised and said she could wear a clear, unobtrusive stud in her nose, and Suzannah returned to her seventh-grade class. "I wanted to feel more closer to my family in India because I really love my family," said Suzannah, who was born in Bountiful. Her father was born in India as a member of the Sikh religion. "I just thought it would be OK to let her embrace her heritage and her culture," said Suzannah's mother, Shirley Pabla, a Mormon born in nearby Salt Lake City. "I didn't know it would be such a big deal." [B]It shouldn't have been, said 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. [/B][/COLOR][/I][COLOR=DarkRed][COLOR=Black]Wrong guy! Amardeep Singh is not Suzanna's father. He just happened to be interviewed by the AP reporter about the story. Here is Amardeep Singh telling us what happened in his blog. [/COLOR][/COLOR][B][COLOR=DarkRed] Nose-Piercing, Utah, and a Big Oops (Not Mine) [Updated] [/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=DarkRed]On Thursday, I spoke to an AP reporter about a story in Utah last week, expressing some views about a girl in middle school in Utah who got suspended from her school for violating dress code, after getting her nose pierced. She and her family said she did it to get in touch with her Indian cultural identity -- she had the piercing done on Diwali just a couple of weeks ago. The school, however, had a strict "ear pierces only" policy, and was only willing to allow her to have a "transparent" stud in her nose, not the more obviously Indian nose ring she wore to school initially. [URL="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g_RVkRyq5w3swuwmZ5xS1jk5M7dAD9BRHB7O2"]Here[/URL] is the AP story that resulted. It's been printed in a fair number of newspapers around the country. The reporter quotes Abhi (from Sepia Mutiny), Sandhya (also from Sepia Mutiny), and myself. But something goes wrong here: [/COLOR][INDENT][COLOR=DarkRed] "I wanted to feel more closer to my family in India because I really love my family," said Suzannah, who was born in Bountiful. Her father was born in India as a member of the Sikh religion. "I just thought it would be OK to let her embrace her heritage and her culture," said Suzannah's mother, Shirley Pabla, a Mormon born in nearby Salt Lake City. "I didn't know it would be such a big deal." It shouldn't have been, said 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. "It's true that the nose ring is mainly a cultural thing for most Indians," Singh said. "Even if it is just culture, culture matters. And her right to express or explore it seems to me at least as important as her right to express her religious identity." ([URL="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g_RVkRyq5w3swuwmZ5xS1jk5M7dAD9BRHB7O2"]link[/URL])[/COLOR][/INDENT][COLOR=DarkRed] Um, wait a minute. Did I read that right? Take a look at it again: "...said [B]Suzannah's father, Amardeep Singh[/B], a Sikh who was raised in the United States..." [UPDATED: The error has been corrected in the online version of this article.] This is a really bizarre and unfortunate error. Just to be clear, I have one kid, and he's three years old. I am annoyed on my own behalf, but I also feel bad for the Pablas. (Suzannah has a dad, who is a practicing Sikh. It just so happens that most of the coverage of this story in the local Utah newspapers doesn't mention his name: [URL="http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13654862"]see the Salt Lake Tribune[/URL], for example) When I spoke to the reporter who authored this story, he was 100% clear that I was in no way related to the Pablas. Somewhere between that conversation and the story that has now run in 200+ newspapers around the country, that important fact fell out. I don't know who's responsible for the error -- it appears it's an editor who might have come up with this. In the end, it's not really that big a deal; the only people who will really think anything is amiss are people who know the Pablas and people who know me. Still, maybe the moral here is to JUST SAY NO when reporters call you for a quote for a story that doesn't really involve you directly. If there is a bright side of this, it's that I got to be photographed by a professional photographer:[/COLOR] [URL="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/slideshow/ALeqM5g_RVkRyq5w3swuwmZ5xS1jk5M7dAD9BRHB7O2?index=0"][IMG]http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5iK296Coz69kWExkj1oyYQXm_dtcw?size=s2[/IMG][/URL] In this Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, photo, Professor Amardeep Singh sits in his office at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. (AP Photo Carolyn Kaster) Source at this link: [URL="http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Eamsp/blog.html"]Amardeep Singh[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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