Blog #2

In the article “Haircuts or turbans: many young Sikhs are forgoing turbans and cutting their long hair leaving spiritual leaders dismayed” written by Amelia Gentleman in New York Times. This article talks about living in a culture of having a turban but when you turn fourteen you can abandon your turban and move on living in the culture your own way. For Jugraj Singh a typical Sikhs in India found his turban the most bothersome thing in the Sikhs faith. “It got in the way when we took judo classes, and washing his long hair was time-consuming, as was the morning ritual of winding seven yards of cloth around his head.” The Sikhs are hoping to reverse the trend of the turbans and offer a free turban-tying class to the guys, so they want to keep them as they get older as a fashion item.

This article was really interesting to me because I never knew there was an age limit to cut off their turbans, saying that if they allow that why do they want to change it now and make a class for how to tie it? Why is it just guys that they focus on? Nowhere in this article do they mention having a class on teaching girls how to tie turbans or having an age limit on when they can cut there turbans off. To me if girls are so good at tying turbans that they are not mentioned then the girls should just be able to help the guys tie their turbans only if they choose to keep them after the age of fourteen