EPISODE · Oct 17, 2018 · 17 MIN
Holy Smoke: is Sikh an ethnicity?
Britain could be about to acquire a new ethnicity - Sikhs. The 2021 census could have an ethnicity tick box for the community. But isn't Sikhism a religion that anyone - of any ethnicity - can follow? Hardeep Singh thinks so - and he explains why categorising his religion as an ethnicity will be dangerous for the community and multicultural Britain.Presented by Damian Thompson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Britain could be about to acquire a new ethnicity - Sikhs. The 2021 census could have an ethnicity tick box for the community. But isn't Sikhism a religion that anyone - of any ethnicity - can follow? Hardeep Singh thinks so - and he explains why categorising his religion as an ethnicity will be dangerous for the community and multicultural Britain.Presented by Damian Thompson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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