Sikh Community in Scotland: moving from America to Scotland

[Guest Academic Singh]

On 5/29/2017 at 7:17 AM, Guest Jagsaw_singh said:

I'll be honest with you 'guest guest academic singh', I don't have a lot of confidence in your 'academic' abilities. You keep asking what kind of sangat you'll find in Edinburgh....whether they're from urban or rural backgrounds....will you fit in etc.....but like a very non-academic person you keep failing to spot how I told you everything you wanted to know in the very first reply on this thread.

Now, twice, on two separate messages, you have asked if you will fit in with them...i.e the same culture and dialect etc.

The answer to that depends on your own family background. If, like most Sikhs, you are from a rural Punjab background the answer is an emphatic 'no'. Your culture, dialect, foods etc will be exactly the same as the Glasgow sangat but completely different to the Edinburgh sangat. I told you that Edinburgh (the place you'll be living in) is the one anomaly.

As a person going overseas as an academic can I please ask you to start showing some academic qualities and read things before continously asking the same things over and again ?

 

 

Thanks for that.  You have a special talent for being able to infer lots of things about someone from a few messages.

When I posted my second message, your post was not yet visible.  The only post I saw was the one I replied to.  I don't understand why there are such delays in this forum.

Anyway, thanks again for the input.  My family is from a rural farming background, so it is helpful to know that I won't find many people from a similar background in Edinburgh.