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 The
typical Punjabi is an extrovert, a sociable fellow who likes
to eat well, dress well. Even if he's in a tight spot he would
like to twirl his moustache and say "Chardi kala" (on the up
and up") to those who ask how he's getting on. He learns quickly
and assimilates new cultures without difficulty; family honour
is sacrosanct to him, but in other matters he tends to be liberal
minded. It is a matter of pride to be "up to date". His enterprise
and capacity to work hard are legendary and his deepest ambition
is to "be his own boss": many an émigré Punjabi have started
life in a strange land driving a cab or working in a café and
gone on to buy out the owner within a couple of years.Read
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 Ever
since the advent of the television and the internet,the practice
of reading is gradually taking a backseat.The generation X in
particular is not too favourably inclined towards reading. As
a consequence thereof, reading is becoming more and more confined
to an esoteric group of people-- the academicians and the intelligentsia.
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 There
are various ceremonies in the Punjabi culture that are held
with great reverance, be it a marriage, the birth of a child
or even prayers for the departed soul. Among the Hindus, the
marriage ceremony is generally performed late at night and goes
on till dawn. While for the sikhs, the ceremony takes place
in the day. During the birth of a child light is kept on day
and night in the room of the mother and the baby for five, even
eleven, or thirteen days after the birth. And among the Hindus,
when a person is on the death-bed, someone recites verses from
the Geeta; the Sikhs offer strength to the departing soul by
reading Sukhmani-the Psalm of Peace.Read
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 The
culture of Punjab, from among the cultures of the world, has
its own unique fragrance. It is unmatched. Punjabis don't profess
and practice hospitality in their own land only but carry it,
untainted and virgin to the lands where they emigrfate and keep
alight the zest of humane love which is an organic trait of
their culture. There in no country in the world where the have
not created waves.Read
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 Beliefs
and superstitions are deep rooted habits and fancies. The majority
of the population of the Punjab being rural, for centuries these
people of the villages, bereft of education and contact with
awakened communities, were under the spell of superstition and
witchcraft. It is only recently that because of the opening
of schools in villages and increase of literacy that the people
have become somewhat rational.Read
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 Rural
Sports are a personification of the virility of Punjab. Today
in almost 7000 villages in Punjab in one decade or the other
rural sports competitions are being held. Villagers are not
just fond of their own competitions they also like to size-up
the skill and power of their animals like bulls, horses, dogs
on the sports ground. They organise them. It is they who extend
all hospitality to the competitors also. In fact these village
sports have opened the floodgates of village development.Read
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the native art forms one of the most ignored is the folk toys,
which like many other forms of village culture, has been considered
a kind of vanity or at the most, synonymous with mere decoration,
but this is not true. They are the combined products of artistic
and social values.Read
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