I think your attitude is reductionist to the whole situation :
1. it is not just assaults on our history to rewrite it so our Guru Sahiban become common criminals , our sacrifices nothing
2. it's the constant drip drip undermining of our Maaboli , our culture : what the Anglos started by burning our literature and kaide the Brahmins are manipulating by making people think Punjabi is backwards as a language and thus the people ... when the truth is we were a serious threat to their vice-like grip on spiritual and temporal knowledge
3. it the stealing of vital flow water , which is illegal under international law and the fact that no money has been given in compensation means ripping off the kaum twice . The usage of borewells to cover the desperate lack of water means we have been forced into signing our own economic and physical deaths (cancer from uranium pollution)
4. Ask the tibetans about about the problems of outsiders trying to annihilate your culture through physical destruction, faith interference (kidnap of llamas), rape of womenfolk (much like shudikaran in Punjab), removal of religious historical texts (like loot of Sikh Library Amritsar), land grabs (sikhs in Rajasthan, Gujrat and elsewhere), disappearences of youths intent on supporting and rebuilding the faith , they've been through what we have and they do not feel it is identity politics but simple genocide of a people . The only way they could survive is to send their children to walk for three weeks through the mountains to safe haven in Dharamshala where they are reviving the old skills and ways through apprenticeships in art, calligraphy, dance, folklore, faith workshops and history lessons. They are getting busy rebuilding and making their future on solid foundations. what you are kind of saying it don't matter what's so wrong in a brown white mentality . Being a coconut means you lose connection to your true heritage and at the same time gain nothing from the new group you have joined as they see you as weak and not worthy.
It is more than just an identity , being a sikh - is a knowing of where you belong, a striving to be the best servant of the panth and Guru ji , a fearlessness to show Guru ji does not make mistakes that a Gursikh is created with intention to make the world a better place for all.
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