two points

I have made this realization that a sikh youth from Canada is more anti-Indian than guys from any other foreign country. I was pondering as to why this could be the case based on the observations I made while browsing through sikhportal and earlier sikhpal. First reason could be that majority of sikhs who believed in the idea of a seperate sikh state (read country) must have moved to Canada once the movement was obliterated in India. Canada has always been an easier place to migrate than USA (maybe also UK not sure). So this resulted in a lot of like minded people who were already very anti-India (maybe for reasons obvious to them) to be together again but this time in Canada.

These people have been successful in passing on information/idealogy to the youth in Canada through programmes at Gurdwaare or elsewhere. I am not trying to say there is anything wrong in this, because these people were closer to the real happenings of the past and it is obvious that they would pass on whatever they can to the younger generation. That brings me to my second point, that sikh youth of today has four fractions 1) youth still believing in the idea of seperate state and strongly anti-indian 2) youth who do not believe in the idea of a seperate sikh-state but are not anti-india, 3) youth who do not want a seperate state and are very much pro-india, and 4) youth who just does not care about these things.

Without digressing from my first point, that why youth in Canada is so anti-India I would like to state that sikh guys I have met in US are very much pro-India and I never felt any hatred in them for India. Again these were my personal observations and I could be wrong. And as stated above the second point is very critical for the sikh youth of today because they need to realize that a seperate state India is much more than having a piece of land. I am sure they understand this too but still for someone so pro-India like me I cannot say much more than mistakes happen and to forgive is divine.