American Sikh immigrants fear their tradition is slipping away


	American Sikh immigrants fear their tradition is slipping away

enbar

8-3-2008 11:46 PM

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religion_news, religion, sikhism, america, pluralism, immigration, south_asia

enbar says:

Many Sikh temples in the U.S. are alarmed at the relative absence of young people (mostly immigrants' children), who don't speak Punjabi and aren't interested in the old-country traditions.

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