Mo Farah issue raises again social awkwardness of Somalis

[Nomand]

cirwaaq

somalia does have the potential to provide great long distance runners but that will be decades away.

even if we have peace we still don't have the infrastructure, training facilities, coaching staff and money to develop someones' talent. Britain probably spend hundred of thousands of pounds on mohammed farah over the years.

[Hyperactive]

lol thug. it says: alsomali mahammed farah did sujuud thank to Allah for winning gold metal.

"alsomali mahammed farah or new abdi bile , did sujuud when he won the gold metal"


the funny thing here they dont mention much his British ness. here wa badow they dont care the paper he carry.lol

[Hyperactive]

محمد فارح البريطاني الجنسية الصومالي الاصل
يشكر لله على الفوز الكبير ..

mahammed farah, biritish citizen, somali origin did the sujood , shukr lillah for the win!

[Thuganomics]

The funny thing here they dont mention much his British ness. here wa badow they dont care the paper he carry.lol

This statement reminds me of me

Thanks for the translation btw,you were right it was a good comment

[Cirwaaq]

cirwaaq

somalia does have the potential to provide great long distance runners but that will be decades away.

even if we have peace we still don't have the infrastructure, training facilities, coaching staff and money to develop someones' talent. Britain probably spend hundred of thousands of pounds on mohammed farah over the years.

Ethiopia is a starving nation, Eriteria has international sanctions, Uganda is suffering from a AIDs and Ebola epidemics they all still find ways.

The funny thing is there are international grants and funding and sponsorship available to any poor nation or any athlete that is in a hostile environment 12months prior to the Olympic event.

We were too busy with who will be president next and steal all the aid donations.

It is a bitter sweet feeling to be a Somali at times.

[Hyperactive]

thug, the sujuud was really really big thing that people here love it. even odayada masjid ka told me " somaliyeen are good muslims, even you athletics do pray tho they grow up in ajnabi country

[Mondey]

Is it true that the British officials warned him from waving any flag different than his GB flag?

[Thuganomics]

Is it true that the British officials warned him from waving any flag different than his GB flag?

I heard this too,I wonder if it's just an urban myth or whether the British are just as insecure as the Yanks about some marro

[Cirwaaq]

Is it true that the British officials warned him from waving any flag different than his GB flag?

Who wears a Macawiis to a Company director's meeting... there is a time for professional behavior.

This is a type of employment.

[Hyperactive]

Is it true that the British officials warned him from waving any flag different than his GB flag?

I heard this too,I wonder if it's just an urban myth or whether the British are just as insecure as the Yanks about some marro

this my personal opinion, it would be very rude to waive other flag! he is running for people who invest in him and for their names. it's just commonsense to avoid such embarrassment.

[Alphanumeric]

He ain't Canadian.

*shrugs*

[The`Republic]

lol.. Mo is Somali, will always be a Somali and Somalis will always celebrate his victories on the world stage. We could careless what flag he waves. Mo made us proud indeed.

This guy, Thuganomics, and some others who posted encapsulate what I meant by the socially awkward Somalis debating with the brain power of chimps on other foras.

It is not about you.
It has nothing to do with you.
Your opinion has no right simply because you share ethnic identity.

Point is Mo Farah has already spoken for himself, keep your sniveling, emotional, symbolic, unimportant, and pseudo-nationalism from trying to give you the right to own his achievement and super-impose his identity. I already said he is a Somali but he is not a Somalia/Somaliland national so get over yourself and stop meddling in individual people and their right to speak for themselves.

Like I said, if I ever do anything noteworthy I would hate the thought of you and some other socially awkward Somali around the world speaking for me and trying to own my achievements in "Somalinimo" to the point of denying credit to the United States when I have already acknowledged that credit.

The man is a Somali guy of British making, stop arguing with British people for claiming their product when Mo Farah has acknowledged their right:

Here is how Mo Farah, his voice denoting impatience, responded last night when asked by one journalist if he would have preferred to run as a Somali.


"Look mate, this is my country.

This is where I grew up, this is where I started life. This is my country and when I put on my Great Britain vest I'm proud. I'm very proud."

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/polit ... rit-charge

[The`Republic]

Suprisingly good post from the OP

[Alphanumeric]

Rep,

I think you're overreacting. Insults aren't cool either. Somali achievements are often talked about on this forum; engineers, doctors, business professionals, etc. Those individuals are praised and ideas of "bettering the Somalis back home" via their successes are often shared. Rarely does anyone suggest those individuals have no duties to Somalis in any way. In fact, it's quite the opposite and suggesting one has more duty to the country which allowed them the opportunity to achieve success would result in the user defending himself from attack.

Wait... I think I lost my point somewhere.

[The`Republic]

Alpha, my response is a response to an extreme form of anti-social and social-awkwardness displayed by Somalis in many response to this issue and other issues affecting Somali persons.

I never denied Mo Farah's Somali ethnicity and never said Somalis do not have a right to celebrate or that Somalis cannot view him as a role model. We as Somalis have every right to be proud of him and other Somalis who see success around the world.

My problem is when Somalis due to being Somali try to own the achievements of this man oftentimes in disagreement with what the individual involved already verbalized. You can see this in domestic Somali culture when the most illiterate, uneducated, ill-mannered, wastrel of a man will sit in a Cafe shop or somewhere public and claim and own achievements of Somali people in the name of his clan. In the international stage, this is widened to include Somalis all over the world to the point of trampling over their own individual right to representation.

It is a form of group think my individualism abhors to the max.

My point is thus: We are lucky that Mo Farah is a Somali and it is because of that we are discussing him, however Mo Farah is neither a making of Somalia/Somaliland nor can you impede on his right to say so. Remember the man himself said he is a making of Great Britain, so then what gives some random Somali around the world the right to own his achievement for Somalia/Somaliland nationality and engage in immature conversations with Britons around the world who have been given that license to celebrate him as thus by the very man involved?

It is a really for reer baadiye conduct I have seen in Somalis.