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One of the benefits of being an immigrant: living longer

February 22, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

A recent study tried to explain the phenomenon in which immigrants seem to have longer life expectancies than people native to the country: It’s a epidemiological mystery. In rich countries immigrants often seem to live longer than native-born residents, a fact that appears to fly in the face of public health assumptions. After all, richer and better-educated people usually tend to live longer, and in the U.S., at least, immigrants tend to be poorer, less well-educated and have poorer access […]

Categories: News Bits, Reports/Studies • Tags: Immigration, Life expectancy, smoking

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TSA, USA cont’d

February 22, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

While last fall’s firestorm around TSA’s search procedures seems to have simmered down, one US politician recently took a stand against being patted down: State Rep. Sharon Cissna will return to Juneau by ferry after declining to undergo a pat-down at a Seattle airport. Michelle Scannell, Cissna’s chief of staff, said that the TSA called for the pat-down because scanners showed Cissna had had a mastectomy. Scannell called the search “intrusive” but didn’t explicitly say why the lawmaker — who […]

Categories: Civil Rights, News Bits • Tags: Air travel, Airport security, AIT machines, Sharon Cissna, Transportation Security Administration, TSA

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Bring your Sikhs, we’re open for business

February 8, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

One of the greatest challenges for any Sikh family is preservation and protection of our religious rights, and our practices.  Sikhs have come a long way in this country to do both of these things, but in many ways, our people are preyed upon by missionary activities of other faiths.  In the Yuba City, California area, home of one of the largest Sikh populations in the United States, such activities are being celebrated: The Rev. Masih, 36, was born a Christian […]

Categories: Interfaith, News Bits • Tags: Aamir Masih, California, Hosanna Punjabi Christian Church, Suhag A. Shukla, Yuba City

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Sikh Civil Rights: The canary in the mine

January 21, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

UNITED SIKHS, a United Nations-affiliated Sikh advocacy and human development group, just released their Global Sikh Civil & Human Rights Report, which summarizes the results from surveys completed by Sikhs around the world: This past year, challenges to Sikh civil and human rights included: Belgium and other countries maintained policies that did not officially recognize the Sikh religion; Sikhs and other religious minorities are still precluded from manifesting their external religious identity in schools in France; Racial/Religious profiling of Sikhs and […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Reports/Studies • Tags: Global Sikh Civil & Human Rights Report, Kirpan, Parti Québécois, Quebec, Quebec National Assembly, United Nations, United Sikhs

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Fear the beard! (if you’re cold weather)

January 20, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Anna, at sepiamutiny.com, writes about the Sikhs’ secret weapon against frigid weather: So as I found myself filled with despair, that despite my 100% Desi genetics, I would never grow a beard of my own, the universe sent me an answer. The heavens parted, sunlight streamed down upon my Mac, angels trilled “AHHHHH!” and I clicked this link, which told me about BeardHead.com. Wot’s this? I can multi-task with my bearding? Not only can I copy one of my favorite […]

Categories: Humor • Tags: Anna, beardhead.com, Sepia Mutiny

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“On faith and the American Way”

January 20, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

It was an interesting day to be reminded about the American principle of separation of church and state, as enshrined by the First Amendment to the US Constitution. On a day when Robert Bentley, Alabama’s new governor, had to apologize for his controversial comments about non-Christians, Ameek Singh, writing on a separate topic in The State News (the student newspaper out of Michigan State University), discusses the first amendment: …the history of faith in America continues this tradition. Americans have […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Politics • Tags: Alabama, Ameek Singh, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Michigan State University, Robert Bentley, separation of church and state, The State News

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How to tie a turban

January 16, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Jus Reign takes you through the steps of tying a turban, from “begning” to end:

Categories: Humor, Sikhism • Tags: how to tie a turban, Jus Reign

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The stories that photos tell

January 13, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Julianne Hing, at The Atlantic, reflects on her own feelings about being an Asian American after seeing a black-and-white photo of Sikhs from 1945: Knowing that I have a history that is much bigger than my own small life makes me feel like I have the right to be in this country, and an obligation to defend my community and other people society would be more comfortable labeling perpetual unwelcome outsiders. View a higher resolution of this photo here.  Similarly […]

Categories: Picture of the Day, Reflections • Tags: Asian American, Julianne Hing, Sikh Pioneers, The Atlantic

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The Sikh Coalition revises their Sikh Air Travellers Guide

January 13, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

The Sikh Coalition has announced an update to their Sikh Air Travellers Guide: Significantly, Sikhs should now expect to be secondarily screened 100 percent of the time at American airports, even after passing through so-called Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) machines.  Although TSA publicly asserts on its website that such machines can see through “layers of clothing,” the TSA has made clear in both word and practice that such machines are not powerful enough to see through Sikh turbans.  This means that, […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Politics • Tags: Air travel, Airport security, AIT machines, Bobby Scott, Judy Chu, Melvin Watt, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Sikh Coalition, Transportation Security Administration, TSA

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