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Canada now has four Sikhs in it's cabinet - even more than India. Why has this not happened in the UK? Sikh immigrants didn't move to Canada any earlier than Britain - in fact a lot of them went over after what happened in Amritsar in 1984. So why is Britain so far behind when it comes to getting Sikhs into positions of power? Is lack of unity holding Sikhs back here - are there more barriers?

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41 minutes ago, singhbj singh said:

 

Canada now has four Sikhs in it's cabinet - even more than India. Why has this not happened in the UK? Sikh immigrants didn't move to Canada any earlier than Britain - in fact a lot of them went over after what happened in Amritsar in 1984. So why is Britain so far behind when it comes to getting Sikhs into positions of power? Is lack of unity holding Sikhs back here - are there more barriers?

Canadian Sikh is largely a post 1984 community.

Everything that has happened since 1984 is part of Canadian Sikh psyche and this plays into the dynamic.

That means the Canadian Sikh understands in a more intimate way the fundamentals in terms of being a cohesive unit particularly in terms of politics.

UK Sikhs are predominantly a post WW2 community and again it is impacts the psyche of UK Sikh. UK Sikh does not have the same kind of dynamic that the Canadian Sikh. 

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3 hours ago, singhbj singh said:

Canada now has four Sikhs in it's cabinet - even more than India. Why has this not happened in the UK? Sikh immigrants didn't move to Canada any earlier than Britain - in fact a lot of them went over after what happened in Amritsar in 1984. So why is Britain so far behind when it comes to getting Sikhs into positions of power? Is lack of unity holding Sikhs back here - are there more barriers?

The thinking of Canadians is a New-Age liberal type of thinking. There are only really 3 types of social liberals and only 3 types of social conservatives.

1. Progressive, (they try fighting for "progress" whatever that really means I don't know).

2. Regressive, (they fight for the past and "correcting wrongs", by being rude and sh*tholes.)

3. Cucks, (they'll fight for everyone's right except their own people).

As well as the 3 conservative groups.

1. Nationalists, (those who put country, before outsiders).

2. Religious Fundementalist, (anyone who is devout and wants to better society through ideas of their faith).

3. Individualist, (those who view individual as higher than the colllective).

What someone should know about Canadian politics is from what I know, it's heavily ethnic-based and not very policy-based, so it's a type of Affirmative Action of politics as well. Canadians as a whole are really afraid of offending people, (this doesn't apply to the Sikhs), likewise in the rest of the world they aren't afraid of offending people, (again not including Sikhs). 

What's going on? Many Sikhs in Canada are related or know someone who was related to a Khalistani Shaheeds. The idea among Canada Sikhs is be the best you can be to make your communitty proud, the rest of the diaspora is get the best job you can get and make your communitty proud. Many Sikhs in the diaspora just wouldn't try running for political office due to family reasons, for Canada it represents Punjabi Issat, (honor). Now you may be wondering why I made the statement about the liberals and conservatives 3 types, that's because in Canada, (with the exception of Quebec), it's the minorities who are conservative and the Goras are the liberals, this effects a lot on how Sikhs even get a chance to win Non-Sikh votes. In America the Goras tend to be the most religious batch of Christian and then are Hispanics, in Canada it's Sikhs and other non-Christian religions, and most religious ideology is about winning power to enslave the world, (Sikhi on the other side of the coin wants to save the world).

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Just now, singhbj singh said:

two Ramgarhia plus two Jat ministers.

Stop trying to insert caste in here, unless you want an entire caste war.

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3 minutes ago, singhbj singh said:

"Honesty saves everyone's time."

"Honesty is better than sugar coated BS"

If you really want to go there, why not mention other Sikhs caste, maybe the Mahapurukhs or something. Get one thing in your head, the Non-Sikhs don't see Jatts, Khatris, Ramgharia, or anything else, all they see is some person with a turban and maybe a Kirpan. In the same way people don't see Punjabis as any different from other Subcontinentals regardless how different we want to make ourselves.

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