The Wearing Of Orange Turban As Part Of A Culture

By Jennie Sandoval


The origin of the wearing of an orange turban can be traced to cultural histories. It was said before that the cloth is a gift given by the guru to the shikh. The shikh is considered to be an anointed person who is expected to live an exemplary life apart from the usual extravagant and wasteful life lived by so many.

You would demand the same respect and understanding from the people who are also not used to your ways and traditions. However, cultural practices of certain religious groups do not easily get accepted in a certain area. This is particularly true when the people residing there are a bit stickler when it comes to the observance and implementations of their cultural beliefs and practices.

They believe that as a sign of respect to their God, they have to hide these hairs. They wrap the cloth around their head to keep the hairs from sticking out. They do not take off the cloth until only when they need to go and take a bath. Of course, when you wash your hair, the cloth wrapping it up has be to be taken off.

Some people have qualms about people wearing them. Kids at school who are wearing it get ridiculed at school. Not that they have a choice. Their parents want them to wear them wherever they go but they hate getting caught wearing it because of peer pressure.

That is what they were born to believe. So, it is hard to shake it off from their system in as much as you cannot help wonder why they have to do that because you think they look ridiculous in those garb because is not part to anything that you believe in. It is the children that suffer the most ridicule.

The children who are instructed by their parents to wear it whenever they go in public suffer the most anxiety. There is peer pressure and because they are children who knows less about this world, they do not know how to handle this pressure with classmates and friends who think they are so weird wearing this on their head. Parents should also try to educate their children about respecting other religious groups practices.

They are told that it is part of their customs and beliefs and that they should honor it by setting an example and actually doing the practice despite the disapproval look of the other people around. Some say that children should just go on with the whims of their parents when it comes to this custom. When they reach the legal age, they can choose to wear the cloth or not if they do not feel like.

Parents who would like to emulate good examples to their children should set as an example in accepting and respecting other people's cultural practices. These people were born made to wear such cloth over their head. It would be difficult to remove them of this belief much as it would be hard to convince you that it is the right thing to do to cover one's hairs all the time in such a manner.

The negative things that kids say to other kids who they found wearing the outfit is going to scar the kids for life. This is the concern of not only psychologist but most parents. It is going to be a long way still before curious looks will not be thrown your way when they see you wearing an orange turban to school.




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