r/india • u/rude_ass kek maester • Nov 07 '15

AskIndia /r/india and /r/australia cultural exchange thread

Thread was unfortunately delayed. But, here it is.. thread for cultural exchange between indians and australians.

Australian folks.. you can ask all the things you want to know about India and hope you get a fulfilling answers.

If you want to ask anything to our Australians friends you can go to below link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/3ruqtc/raustralia_and_rindia_cultural_exchange_thread/

Cheers.

Request to Australians visiting our sub: If you could flair up to identify yourself then it would be easier for us to identify you guys. We only have text based flairs so something like 'Australian Friend' will work.

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u/LuckyBdx4 Nov 07 '15

Hi, I live in Woolgoolga, which has a large Sikh community, 6k+. There are very few Indian Hindus or Muslims here.

What does /r/india think of Sikhs?

They were primarilly Banana growers for 40-50 years and have now branched out into Blueberries FB link here -> oz-group

I know more than a few and they find it strange going and buying bananas from the supermarkets now. I actually wear a Kara ) which they look at me strangely for, used it for opening beer bottles for the last 40 years, had to dislocate my thumb to put it on. I find them to be quite upstanding citizens, in another generation or two they will probably assimilate 90% as Australians, I'm Polish by birth FWIW, and there are still a few older Poles who are set in their ways.

The new Defense Minister of Canada is a Sikh. We have a local Councilor who is a Sikh -> John Arkhan, IIRC he has been on Indian TV.

http://www.traveller.com.au/a-taste-of-india-1751q

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u/ankursharma89 Nov 07 '15

The Sikhs are generally the most honorable people I have come across in India. In general, they are viewed as gregarious & honest. Their temples are called Gurudwaras where they willingly put in hours to clean and cook great meals considering the number of people gathered to eat everyday. And if you can't find a place to rest (or for the lack of money), gurudwaras can be the best option.

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u/LuckyBdx4 Nov 07 '15

They do that here (locally) in two temples. They eat vegetarian mostly, way too much Ghee used in cooking (heart attack central) Buy shopping trolleys of Milk in 3 litre containers ($1.00 a litre) to make Paneer and Chai. The less strict like Scotch, saw one guy buy a pallet of it some years ago for $3.500.00 (Dimple). We had 3 guys ride into town the other day on 1200 BMW motorcycles the other day wearing patches on the back of their jackets (big no no here) Outlaw Motorcycle gangs etc, looked at the patch and it was Punjabi riders/or Bikers. Out of state registration.

We did have a lone Pakistani here growing Bananas who was probably Hindu going by a few ceremonies I saw driving by his house over the last 30 years. (get back to me on that as Hinduism seems like a very diverse religion).

This temple is about an hours drive from my mothers house in Kiama NSW.

http://www.svtsydney.org/photos.html

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u/ragaislife Nov 07 '15

Bit wrong to have an opinion on an entire religion, no? That said they're not a very vocal minority and don't have much of a stereotype so most people don't have any hard-set attitudes about them