Sat Sri Akal!
While we all talk and discuss the various philosophical, religious, ethical and moral issues surrounding Sikhism today, it strikes me that there is no place better than forums such as these to amass larger groups of educated, literate sikhs to formulate strategies to educate, research and empower sikhs and sikhism today. While I am a proverbial small fry, what do people think? If groups like this and other large Sikh internet based groups (e.g. Sikhnet and Saldef in USA) were to try to engage each other to create "Supersites" or other Umbrella organizations encompassing many different and diasporatic sikh organizations, the combined efforts of sikhs in such an organization could potentially be very significant. Sikhs are so separated, as I sit here writing from the American midwest, with a small but growing population of Sikhs and punjabis. There are much larger groups of sikhs in canada, american east and west coasts, and of course the UK. But what seems to be missing is an organization of the more educated among us to counteract the negative influences of the divides in our community with respect to the first and second (and third and even fourth) generation immigrants, the language barriers, and just plain old obvious cultural barriers between each generation.
So what do people think can be done, if anything? Or will the majority of us merely talk the talk, but not walk the walk of meeting the challenges which modern sikhs face as their younger generations become more indifferent, more ignorant, and more unable to respect the majesty of tradition we have.
sincerely<br /><br />
----------------------------------------<br />
----------------------------------------<br />
While we all talk and discuss the various philosophical, religious, ethical and moral issues surrounding Sikhism today, it strikes me that there is no place better than forums such as these to amass larger groups of educated, literate sikhs to formulate strategies to educate, research and empower sikhs and sikhism today. While I am a proverbial small fry, what do people think? If groups like this and other large Sikh internet based groups (e.g. Sikhnet and Saldef in USA) were to try to engage each other to create "Supersites" or other Umbrella organizations encompassing many different and diasporatic sikh organizations, the combined efforts of sikhs in such an organization could potentially be very significant. Sikhs are so separated, as I sit here writing from the American midwest, with a small but growing population of Sikhs and punjabis. There are much larger groups of sikhs in canada, american east and west coasts, and of course the UK. But what seems to be missing is an organization of the more educated among us to counteract the negative influences of the divides in our community with respect to the first and second (and third and even fourth) generation immigrants, the language barriers, and just plain old obvious cultural barriers between each generation.
So what do people think can be done, if anything? Or will the majority of us merely talk the talk, but not walk the walk of meeting the challenges which modern sikhs face as their younger generations become more indifferent, more ignorant, and more unable to respect the majesty of tradition we have.
sincerely<br /><br />
----------------------------------------<br />
----------------------------------------<br />