My niece recently had this experience. Her friend whom she was very close with, invited her family to meet theirs. Now one thing she did not know is that my niece's dad wears a dastar.
When my niece's dad went there - they were all shocked. Your dad wears a dastar... but you seem all normal. We thought your dad was going to be so strict with you. We had a completely different view of people who wear dastars.
Well the mona community out there - does not feel safe to mix and mingle with a Sikh wearing a dastar. They have got some weird views about them being very very religious and wanting to draw the kirpan out at any argument. This visit changed the views of one family who admitted that they feared sikhs with dastars and leave alone give their daughter or son in marriage to one, they would never even have invited one home!!!!!!!!!
Good news... they are still friends.
This is the situation of Guest Reet. You are a nice girl but no knowledge of what a Gursikh or what real Gursikhi means. This is the norm of what most Sikh girls are like. Your values, beliefs, outlook to life and ideals are from films, friends and novels, not from the ideals taught to us by Guru Ji. You need to read up.
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