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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
The whole safety and liability movement is a North American creation that hasn't hit every place in the world yet. Go on vacation to many parts of the world as evidence of this. Anyway, if these Sikh's are somewhat new to the country than it makes sense that they aren't overly concerned about safety. Also their headwear being a religious custom and all would probably have them more worried about honoring their religion than the risks of life on Earth.
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Whatever someone thinks about safety or taking risks doesn't really matter in this case. It's not up to them to decide what is safe or what isn't. That's the parks job, and they follow those rules based on the law of this land. I don't think we disagree, I am just saying.
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However that being said, why is it the rest of us that have to accomodate them as opposed to the whole them avoiding situations in which would compromise their religion. Afterall many western religions call for abstainance of many things readily available in western society. Those people are forced to avoid those situations. Why is that too much to ask Sikh's to do as well?
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I often wonder that too. Now I am not a immigrant, I was born here and so where my parents and their parents and I've lived here all my life. So I don't know what it's like to take on another countries customs etc. (outside of short vacations). Now if I am moving to another country I would understand that there are some customs and ways of life that I would have to adapt to. I wouldn't expect to go somewhere in Asian, for example, where you must take off your shoes before you go into a certain building, and refuse to. Would I go the government and demand that I be allowed to wear shoes? I mean, I don't have buildings here where I have to take off my shoes. Obviously it would be unreasonable of me to expect that. Oh unless in my spiritual book it was required that I wear shoes inside buildings, then I can do whatever I want and make people change. That of course is a pretty crude example, but you get the idea.
Not everyone has the same reasons to move to another country. But I am sure most of them centre around change. You want a change. Whether it be work related, living conditions or other means (war etc). Why would want to make your new country just like your old one? I suppose Canada has done this to itself by being accommodating to changing things for peoples beliefs. And of course it is not just limited to immigrants, I just ran with that because we were talking about other countries safety standards (or lack there of).