hyperactive wrote:evry one is racist to some extend and prejudice. it's you scare what is known to you.
having said that, some somalis just hate everything and anything even themselvers.
Not all types of Racism is equal. Not all abuses are the same. Planting 200 nails into the body of a human only happens in Saudi arabia.
The question is, is this racism, ignorance, both and what is the cause of it. I believe this is not hatred (saudis do not hate people from indonesia) but ignorance from tradition compounded by authoritarian regimes that perpetuate a culture of abuse.
In the first post I tried to explain this ignorance from tradition that it's simply a form of culture that is inherit in the community due to deep rooted tradition that cannot be overcome by knowledge. The only solution is to change tradition through traditional means, ie public awareness through the tribal systems, educating school children and overhaul the justice system.
Ofcourse I do not want to make the mistake of using one isolated incident (one bad apple the American general would say

) and blow it out of proportion to come to sweeping conclusions. However, the issue of maid abuse in the Arab world, I believe, is rampant as the issue of child abuse in the Catholic Church (ask Desmond Hutu

) . However, I do not want to regress and go off topic. Please give your input into what you believe is the cause of this Arab racism, and are the Somalis justified in hating the Arabs if the injustice the Arabs are causing is not due to hatred of Somalis but out of ignorant from tradition.