many of our young people have never seen what somalia was like as young children. the civil war generation (0-24ish) have never seen peace and have never lived in a period of somalia being great. despite this, many of those who self-hate on a regular occurrences by denying themselves their true identity and deserved place among their people have 'issues' that they need to deal with. what these young people need is a well defined sense of self that they can be proud of. i think this could be found in the commonalities that we Somalis have (culture, Islam and music, etc, we need to place less emphasis on things that divide us as things that define what constitutes somalinimo as an identity.
However, what astounds me personally is, many people associate somalis with poverty, tribalism and backwardness, laakin in the last 10-15 years somalis have rapidly integrated among their host countries and are very successful. young people who self hate need to look beyond their ghetto streets and see just how many Somalis live in suburbia. i am personally friends with somalis who work as a stock-brokers for Barclay's and big city firms and Somalis who work as senior civil servants in Whitehall and other govt agencies etc, these people are humble and very proud of being somalis. laakin because they are busy, they dont have time to give back to the community as much as they would have liked.
dhaqan celis just doesnt work. what self-haters need are intense lessons in cultural orientation.
God Bless
In Arabia Arabs treat somalis no different than any other black African. 
Here in the west whites can't tell the difference between a somali from the south and any other black person 
you can keep trying to hide from your blac ness but people will only laugh at you self haters. 
Sharif will rid the country of you Arab wanbies 
,you a$$ hole 
play stupid all day but in the west Somalis are black Africans no matter how much you want to escape it.. 
Black White and Asian