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Titanium wrote:

Jaidi wrote:I might be the only person from one of these related clans on this forum. PM me your interest and we can test your commitment to this cause

Have you ever faced discrimination by fellow Somalis in the West?

I'm not Madhibaan, I'm tumaal but we intermarry sometimes. Anyways as far as discrimination goes it usually is in the form of ignorant statements etc when they don't realize I'm from aforementioned people.


Also the condescending " we are all the same " responses when they find out my clan.

Most people from these clans actually have no interest in marrying from major clans and would rather marry within. Nobody wants to beg for someone's hand in marriage like we are talking about royalty and not average ass Xalimos.

HusseinHassan wrote:you're right. let's get back to our shukaansi in the pm (luuq).

^ thanks for ruining my wishful thinking.

Jaidi, aren't Tumaal a subclan of Digil?

HH, big boys don't cry. Don't you ever show me that ganfuur

fine dammit! you better watch your back for rejecting me.

Not possible.
Somalis are backward people.
How can madhibaan be insulted when their forefather did something to survive? It was either eating kadaver or dying from hunger.
I think that somalis are jealous because madhibaan seems to be the smartest somali of all. Maybe we should make them leaders!

Oh my!

what can i say, 1 in every 2 somalis is suffering from some sort of mental illness. you just happened to come across that 1, dd.

and you just happen to be the other one. Nice!

DeeqaDagan wrote:Jaidi, aren't Tumaal a subclan of Digil?

No you're referring to Tunni I think.

Oh yeah, Tuni. I always confuse those two. Thanks.

We need a new midgaan tribe to replace the current ones. This is the only way out for them. Anyways somali girls and WOMEN are marrying jamaicans straight out of pen. Marka wey idinka fanan in qurbaha adinkana waa ka fantiin in somaliyo. Miidkii rayo hala arkoo

Family first. I still think a madhibaan is preferable to any ajnabi. What say you now naysayers?

sophisticate wrote:

Reacher wrote:I wouldn't mind seeing sophy get tested with real life proposal by a Somali madhibaan brother. It would be either her family or her man. Wonder which side she will choose to? Sophy, speak the truth my lady.

What a sad fate indeed for my beautiful future children. Disowning can hurt. I'll ask hooyo and aabo a hypothetical question and I shall see the response uno momento. For some reason, the #1 reason parents take issue with it is because of social stigma/alienation from other Somalis. Perhaps something in our twisted collective consciousness needs to change.

But same parents might give an approval to a marriage between you and a convert you choose to marry. One big reason I have no association with clan, never feel anything about it, no affinity, no hate, no love was because of my father. A man born and bred in a city, educated in a city who traveled the world ayuu ahaa. I was lucky to be born as a son to him. Ilaahay ha u naxariisto. What an example he was. A man of culture and respect, very educated, he was ahead of Somalis in foresight and knew what a kid needed to grow up healthy and independent among Somalis.

We all represent our parent's and extended relatives' views when it comes to Somali culture. Everyone on here represents how and where they grew up and with what form of views towards Somalis they learned from their household. For those who were born in Baadiye, clan was the life, so they know little about other Somalis except what was passed to them through word of mouth, and most of these stories and views about other clans are biased due to a war in the year of abaartii, and that year of this and that etc. Nothing logical to it. Sadly, kids born in US cities ask you what tribe you belong to, and their Somali is zero, they all sound and look demented because of the western culture, yet they are obsessed with the clan. Goes to show what kind of parents they have.