To maintain the interest of young people, however, the lectures and talks are often in English. Indeed, this struggle to maintain the traditional language is only part of the struggle to maintain a flourishing tradition.
Most Sikhs in the United States have made it their permanent home and have become American citizens. They strive to be a part of the American context while maintaining their Sikh identity.
Even so, Sikhs sometimes experience discrimination because of their distinctive appearance. In the mids, litigation was launched over the right to wear a turban on a hardhat job or in the U. Army with their Sikh articles of faith intact.
On September 1, , a copy of the Holy Granth Sahib was ceremonially installed in the main temple. The establishment of Sikhism eventually resulted in the formation of the Sikh Confederacy and the Sikh Empire in Sikhism has currently more than 25 million followers all over the world, with a majority of the Sikhs being found in the countries of India , United States , Canada , United Kingdom , Australia , Malaysia , and the East African nations of Kenya , Uganda , and Tanzania.
India, being the birthplace of Sikhism, has the largest Sikh population in the world with about 22,, Sikhs living in the country. About About 2. The other nations which contain a significant population of Sikhs include the United Kingdom , , Australia , , Malaysia , , and the East African nations of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania having a total Sikh population of 50,, people. Request legal assistance from the Sikh Coalition. Contact Us. Scroll me. As a scholar of the tradition and a practicing Sikh myself, I have studied the harsh realities of what it means to be a Sikh in America today.
I have also experienced racial slurs from a young age. The bottom line is there is little understanding of who exactly the Sikhs are and what the believe. To start at the beginning, the founder of the Sikh tradition, Guru Nanak was born in in the Punjab region of South Asia, which is currently split between Pakistan and the northwestern area of India. A majority of the global Sikh population still resides in Punjab on the Indian side of the border.
From a young age, Guru Nanak was disillusioned by the social inequities and religious hypocrisies he observed around him. He believed that a single divine force created the entire world and resided within it. In his belief, God was not separate from the world and watching from a distance, but fully present in every aspect of creation.
He therefore asserted that all people are equally divine and deserve to be treated as such. To promote this vision of divine oneness and social equality, Guru Nanak created institutions and religious practices.
He established community centers and places of worship, wrote his own scriptural compositions and institutionalized a system of leadership gurus that would carry forward his vision.
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