This First Person article is written by Manjot Mann, who lives in Surrey, B.C. April is Sikh Heritage Month. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
“Can you sit on your hair?”
That’s what the girl sitting behind me in my Grade 10 math class asked me.
I was used to people asking about my hair. It cascaded down my back in a long braid and I actually could sit on it. Even though I grew up in Newton, a predominately South Asian area of Surrey, B.C., I still felt like an anomaly and a bit of a
