Lifting the Shelter in Place – The Tradeoffs. As India is the birthplace of this religion, it stands to reason that it is still home to the majority of its followers. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. x���r��U��M�������#q1!)ɱ�J,�. New York City has launched a video in Punjabi language to reach “Sikhs, who are predominantly Punjabi language speakers”. This comes after several Sikh organisations in the US held meetings with the Census Bureau. “It's clear that a separate code is needed to ensure an accurate count of Sikhs in the United States, recognizing a unique identity,” US Census Deputy Director Ron Jarmin told PTI. “The Census Bureau included ‘Sikh’ codes as part of the draft 2020 Census code list within the 2018 Census Test Redistricting Data Prototype,” it said. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. She told the newspaper that while the census is prohibited by law from soliciting information on religion, Sikhs fall into the ethno-religious category because their religion is “intertwined to become more of a cultural identity”. It is up to all of us to determine where Sikhs fit within this great nation and what kind of country we want for our loved ones and future generations. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. 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Copyright © 2020 Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. Thanks for subscribing! Why are migrant workers all over India returning to their villages? “Our community matters, and we want to make sure that Sikh families are appropriately counted and accurately resourced wherever they are across our country,” she added. Hailing from the Punjab region, which encompasses parts of eastern Pakistan and northern India, the Sikh diaspora now covers much of the inhabited world, with millions of adherents spread across dozens of nations. This is because Sikhs have traditionally been a ‘hard to count’ population in the United States, said Satjeet Kaur, Sikh Coalition executive director. The effort to count Sikhs meshes in with the move to count various ethnic groups that had been swept under the general categories of White, Black or “Other Asian.”. Marks told Newsday that there was a precedent for counting “ethno-religious groups” and cited the Amish, a reclusive Christian sect that eschews most modern technologies. Canada has the second largest Sikh population in the world, with 468,670 Sikh residents. * The moderation of comments is automated and not cleared manually by, Copyright © 2020 The Indian Express [P] Ltd. All Rights Reserved, Sikhs to be counted as separate ethnic group in US census for first time, Follow Bihar Election Results 2020 LIVE Updates here, Follow Bihar Election Results 2020 Political Reactions Live updates here. The Census Bureau has been working with the Sikh community during the past decade, she told Newsday and “they told us they really needed this, to be counted separately”. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Canada. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Nearly 60% of the Indian Punjab population in Sikh, followed by 37% Hindu, while the rest are Jains, Muslims, and Christians. Justice Katju: What was wrong in what Macron said? While the total number of adherents of the religious community living in the US remains something of a mystery – ranging … At indica, we will be following up on news for the South Asian community – without fear or favor. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. This will alert our moderators to take action. “This historic announcement is the result of decades of advocacy by the United Sikhs group at the national level,” said Jasmit Singh, advocacy director of the United Sikhs, adding the data would “help in tracking and measuring hate crimes against the community” and “ensure an accurate count of Sikhs in the United States.”. “‘Sikh’ will be included as a distinct detailed population group within the ‘Asian’ racial category, and not classified as ‘Asian Indian’ as it was in the 2010 Census when it was viewed as a religious response,” according to the Census Bureau. Human rights lawyer Aman Singh became first turbaned Sikh man to become an MLA in British Columbia, a Canadian province with ten percent Indian-origin population. 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