Life as an Italian American Sikh female taxi driver in NYC

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Life as an Italian American Sikh female taxi driver in NYC

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Life as an Italian American Sikh female taxi driver in NYC
10 October 2011 Last updated at 00:08 ET Help

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She looks and dresses like a traditional Indian woman, yet she speaks with an American-Italian Brooklyn accent.

Maria Provenzano Singh is also one of the few women cab drivers in New York City.

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The 57-year-old emigrated to the US with her family when she was a toddler, but she has not spoken to her relatives for years after falling in love with, and marrying, a Sikh man from the Punjab.

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In this First Person account Maria explains why Italian and Sikh culture have a lot in common.

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