Posted on 11/08/2009 11:27:42 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
To 12-year-old Suzannah Pabla, piercing her nose was a way to connect with her roots in India. To Suzannah's school, it was a dress-code violation worthy of a suspension.
To other Indians, the incident was emblematic of how it can still be difficult for the American melting pot to absorb certain aspects of their cultural and religious traditions.
Suzannah was briefly suspended last month from her public school in Bountiful, Utah, for violating a body-piercing ban. School officials—who noted that nose piercing is an Indian cultural choice, not a religious requirement—compromised and said she could wear a clear, unobtrusive stud in her nose, and Suzannah returned to her seventh-grade class.
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Is America going PRIMATIVE?
Will we be celebrating our third would country status like THIS?
The gutless school clowns should not have compromised. I don’t give a rat’s ass where she is from or what culture she espouses. When in Rome, do as the romans do. End of story.
I think they reached a logical conclusion!
“I wanted to feel more closer to my family in India because I really love my family,” said Suzannah, who was born in Bountiful. Her father was born in India as a member of the Sikh religion. “
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Ever think about GOING BACK TO THEM?
How does disfiguring your face, make you closer to them?
NORMAL people have the person in their herat, not in their NOSE.
Up next....
FGM
(It’s a cultural thing)
Wait, you’re comparing a nose ring with FGM ?
Suuuuure.
(((I’m offended that this girl would dare put this in her nose!
Why am I offended?!? WHY??!
I have no idea, but darn it this is just WRONG!)))
Really, people?
We just hired a young Desi lady with a pierced nose. She actually looks like the actress Ayshea Brough.
It shouldn't have been, said Suzannah's father, Amardeep Singh, a Sikh who was raised in the United States and works as an English professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.
What is wrong with these people? How about embracing her American heritage? They have taught their daughter to feel more like an Indian than like a citizen of the United States. This kind of situation brings us one step closer to Balkanization. Another benefit of our colorful diversity.
Has everyone here gone socialist liberal telling people what they can and can not do?
No. Dirt eating MUSLIMS are comparing a nose ring with FGM.
It’s no big deal in either culture.
She'll get over it the second mom and dad bring over some young man's family to visit and see if she is suitible for marriage (about the time she's 15).
So the First Amendment does not apply to minorities? I was always taught what is good for the goose is good for the gander without any reference to the size of the groups.
Yes, she should wear her magic underwear and be like the other students.
No. I'm fairly confident that we're there already...
Witness, rapper extraordinaire - 'Lil Wayne. Who, prior to his most recent felony conviction, enjoyed a long, sit-down interview with Katie Couric of the CBS Evening News - because I'm sure everyone was waiting with baited breath on the musings from this, ahem, gentlemen.
Isn't the RAPE belt buckle especially decorative.
“I wanted to feel more closer to my family ...”
Her father teaches English. He needs to start with his daughter. When she gets that down, she can start with the useless cultural stuff.
Hank
Letting a “stud” mess around with your nose is ..... well...... it’s strange really.
??? Her mother is a Mormon and her father is a Sikh, and they apparently live on opposite sides of the country, with Suzannah living in Utah with her mother.
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