Sacramento/California: The US Public Broadcasting System (PBS) has produced a documentary on American Sikhs to create awareness about the community traumatised by post 9/11 racial attacks.

Called 'Sikhs in America', the half-hour documentary captures their culture, spiritual beliefs, social ceremonies, martial arts, the game of kabbadi and the Yuba City Sikh Parade.

Releasing it here, channel president David Hosley said 'Sikhs in America' would teach mainstream Americans about the community.

Although Sikhs have been in the US for over 100 years, few Americans know anything about them, he lamented.

Jasbir Singh Kang, founder member of Yuba City Punjabi American Heritage Society that mooted and partly funded the documentary, recalled how they persuaded the PBS to do the documentary to raise awareness about American Sikhs.

Source : IANS