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Arabischer wrote:

WestLdnShawty wrote:Somali diaspora!!

You could be right. The educated, the experienced, the intellectual, etc-- instead of manning up and fixing the problems, they fled.

gemini_snake wrote:if you had an ak-47 pointed at your head, what you do? wave your fantasy degree at the drugged-up kids and hope they all put down their guns or grab your fam & belongings and make a run for it?

Arabischer wrote:

WestLdnShawty wrote:Somali diaspora!!

You could be right. The educated, the experienced, the intellectual, etc-- instead of manning up and fixing the problems, they fled.

Cirwaaq wrote:
The Europians did far worse matching making in other countries, where some of the people forced into the same country have zero relations be it cultural, faith, or language yet they survive relatively. There is always one dominant group that forces the rest to accept being ruled.

WestLdnShawty wrote:Somali diaspora!!

FAH1223 wrote:20 years. Can't you people let it go? You'd think you would already have built a new life in your new country by now. Forget about Somalia and what was.

Think about here and now!

Shirib wrote:

The_Patriot wrote:It depends on what angle you look at it from.
1) Historical
2) Economical
3)Cultural
4)External Factors

MSB AU had both negative and positive aspects but this is not an excuse for the entire destruction of Somalia to be blame at him .

There has been successful regime changes across the world like Uganda, Rwanda etc nothing has been recorded of the somali proportion.
Seems like folks from somalia never fought for independence to know what it is and preferred to be servitudes to the Colonialists.

Anyway Somalia was a land drawn by colonialists and had no historical connection. Northerners and Southerners who had different cultures were lumped together and those that had served the brutal colonialists became its leaders and run its parliament.

Thus it was a predicament that the country would one day collapse.

What were the different cultures between the north and south?

Navy9 wrote:Mon ami, c'est la vie: what goes up, must come down.

Talo alle udaa wrote:

WestLdnShawty wrote:Somali diaspora!!

The diaspora was created after the fall so they could not have been responsible for the downfall.

There was an organized diaspora back then, much more connected to events in Somalia than today IMO, the USC and SNM were set up in the diaspora remember?

The downfall maybe what's called "multifactorial" meaning having more than one cause.
This is often the case in complex diseases such as scizophrenia(not sure if spelling is correct) which may have multiple causes.

There are many genes involved, and depending on what copy you have, an individual maybe predisposed to have the illness. Then there are environmental factors that could effect promoters and enhancers of genes and turn on dormant genes.

The unique environmental factors in our case is Ethiopia, Kenya, and third party powerhouses such as the U.S. and former Soviet Union. The internal make up of the somali being a tribal society causes them to be suspicious of each other, with every move calculated on case by case bases. The ruling regime giving the impression of promoting the interest of one clan against the other, and heavy handed tactics used through the decades having its effect, a costly war causing the regime to be almost bankrupt, and aforementioned factors all partly contributed to the "downfall".