You know, we are proud people, blindly proud but we shouldn't be , you'll understand after reading this

[Kareem99]

I've been compiling and watching documentaries on the great men and women who have made a huge difference to humanity .

All the people that have discovered the cure to very killer ( except AIDS) disease are of European origin


Polio

TB

DNA

Malaria

Flu

Anti-bacteria

Etc.


Walahi I have huge respect for the Cadaan man

I'm not saying he is smarter ....but we must recognize that we are xoolo in the bigger picture ..,what have we contrubuted

Saaxib, what you're doing is comparing one tiny ethnic group (the Somalis) to a mega "race" (I hesitate to use this word) of close to a billion people. Apples and oranges don't you think? But I can understand, this is how the vast majority of humans think. Muslims were referred to as Moors/Saracens despite the fact that this was a group of people who lived in Andalusia all the way East to Persia, with great variety both ethnicity and language. Yet the foreigner called them by these unifying name(s): maybe success does that, I don't know.

But let's not oversimplify things by just looking at recent history. The technological/scientific/scholarly success of the "Moors" (I use this term loosely) is partially owed to those who came before them (i.e. the Greeeks). Same could be said for the Europeans who learned a great deal from "Moorish" scholarship. Humans learn from each other, let's not call one ethnic group xoolo while putting the other one on a pedestal. I'm still a proud Somali, dhaqnkeeyga weli gacanta baa ku heystaa, wax aanan dhaqankeeyga ahayn aqbali maayo. In this sense, I'm a very proud Somali.

PS: I think we're doing a huge disservice to the far East Asians considering they're also a major contributor in today's technology sector.

[Kareem99]

Walee Iyo bilee it can be caught up with if we can install the following and it's just a dream

Unity

Stability

A man like the Singapore's late founding father was at the helm

Well managed gov

Rule of law

Qabiil sidelined

Corruption kept to the minimum

Natural resources used to build infrastructure

Top 5k of the student of the nation each year be send to advanced nations with an incentive for them to comeback

Make it law that any child under 18 must b in school

Gov must have check and balances

Manufacturering must be had

Tourism must be encouraged

With the exception of your occasional outbursts, this right here ^^ is why I respect you. If we all pull in one direction, who can stop us from achieving national success? It's been done before and there's no reason to believe why it can't be done again.

[CaliQase]

Walee Iyo bilee it can be caught up with if we can install the following and it's just a dream

Unity

Stability

A man like the Singapore's late founding father was at the helm

Well managed gov

Rule of law

Qabiil sidelined

Corruption kept to the minimum

Natural resources used to build infrastructure

Top 5k of the student of the nation each year be send to advanced nations with an incentive for them to comeback

Make it law that any child under 18 must b in school

Gov must have check and balances

Manufacturering must be had

Tourism must be encouraged

I like that one

[mrdegdeg]

Walee Iyo bilee it can be caught up with if we can install the following and it's just a dream

Unity

Stability

A man like the Singapore's late founding father was at the helm

Well managed gov

Rule of law

Qabiil sidelined

Corruption kept to the minimum

Natural resources used to build infrastructure

Top 5k of the student of the nation each year be send to advanced nations with an incentive for them to comeback

Make it law that any child under 18 must b in school

Gov must have check and balances

Manufacturering must be had

Tourism must be encouraged

Insallah

[TheGrumpyGeeljire]

Chilinbadboy's Theory of Advancement Through
Survival

Africans are the way they are because their continent is a very hospitable place with plenty of sun shine, water and vegetation. It does not require much effort to just 'survive' in Africa. That is why there are still Bushmen running around naked in the Jungles of the Congo. Why bother with shelter when you can sleep under a tree? Why bother making guns when you have no need to have tools more advanced than a spear and a slingshot. When Africans were hungry all they had to do was go to the nearest fruit tree and stuff themselves fat. Akuna matata, no worries mate...

On the other hand, Europe is a cold, wet and relatively resource barren land. Europeans had to work extremely hard just to 'survive', this led to their progress as they were all ways trying to find new ways to make life comfortable. You cannot be a naked bushman in Europe, you'll die of cold. Europeans were forced to work their bloody heads on a daily basis to get food, water and shelter. Life was a struggle and if you weren't cut for it, you'd perish..simple as that.

As a result, what happened was that the Africans were surpassed in technology and civilisation as they didn't have this culture of working hard to survive. This, coupled with the fact they were colonised by these Europeans led to the demise of the African man.

The sad thing is, Africans have also been mentally colonised to believe that Europeans are superior. We can examine this strange phenomenon on this very website by examining the behaviour of individuals like Dr.Yalaxow, AbdiJohnson and MaliPrince.

[Estarix]

^^
You make it sound like one needs to live in inhospitable areas to build an advanced civilizations which is really just untrue. The Northerners (Euros) have been living half naked and backwards for thousands of years until people who developed farming and civilization in the scorching heat civilized them.

[Amira143]

Make a change or kindly STFU.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

Lol@Africa is hospitable. It's the other way around. Did you ever wonder why the greeks, persians and the romans never ventured into Sub-Saharan Africa or when they did why they met with such disaster? Mosquitoes, dysentery and disease. In fact it wasn't until the early modern period when medicine, weapons and water-collection methods were much more advanced that the europeans were actually able to conquer Africa. Africa was isolated and inhospitable. Much of Europe had warm springs, temperate summers and mild winters. Not to mention a lack of diseases and lots of wood, stone and water resources. What is the european excuse for being barbarians when the Egyptians and Mesopotamians were crafting sophisticated civilisations?

[Present]

When a group of people have confidence-they can acheive great things. We were conquerers because of our confidence!

Bring back the ''Somali >>>everyone else''

[Salma251]

I've been compiling and watching documentaries on the great men and women who have made a huge difference to humanity .

All the people that have discovered the cure to very killer ( except AIDS) disease are of European origin


Polio

TB

DNA

Malaria

Flu

Anti-bacteria

Etc.


Walahi I have huge respect for the Cadaan man

I'm not saying he is smarter ....but we must recognize that we are xoolo in the bigger picture ..,what have we contrubuted

You do not know anything about medical history. The first vaccine was developed in China over 2000 years. They used the skin scratchings of people with virus to inoculate others. The first anti-bacterial soap was developed by Muslims. The truth is no civilisation can take complete credit for anything, all civilisations build on the knowledge of those that came before them. You would say the white man developed computers wouldn't you?, however without the algorithms of Muslim mathematicians computers would never exist.