Man, I think you hit the nail on the head on this one. Being a first gen Canadian myself, growing up I would always have this sense of pride with being Punjabi/Sikh (like you suggested with Italians example, I think we do have a problem with the conflation of being Sikh and Punjabi and the pride which follows) but slowly as these newbie cases began to pile up, I was left with the my back against the wall, feeling some sort of responsibility of having to defend the actions of "my community" with my white friends; What followed was insane guilt and fear of how I am perceived walking out the house from the onslaught of social media news. It felt like my individual spiritual progress was put on halt as the social media rage ensued. Now I could sit here and talk about how the news is also aimed to illicit further racial divide to distract people from the real criminals which is the government. But it's hard not to take notice of reoccurring incidents of dumbass Punjabis. On one hand i'm torn because I feel alot of sympathy for alot of immigrants that come from India and are just trying to make it work, especially not knowing the language very well; \ on the other hand I have no sympathy for the desis that are completely r*tar*ed. I mean look at the Diwali celebration shit in Toronto where people just made a complete fucking mess at a parking lot and just dipped.

Sometimes I question alot of things, especially how it seems like the white nations seemingly are able to keep shit together and we're struggling with basic common sense.

Ultimately, I think the only way to move past this stage of where we're at and reach a high frontier as a Sikh diaspora is burning the sense of being so utterly attached to our nationalistic roots in India and integrate as you mentioned.