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Re: is rageh omaar the only somali to attend an elite univer

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LiquidHYDROGEN wrote:Elite universities are over-rated. It only produces snobs. I would take a highly skilled and qualified person from a technical college any day over hordes Oxford/Harvard graduates with PHDs in Philosophy and Chinese studies.

No, I beg to disagree. I will take the ivy league Snobs over hard working technical college graduate! R u freaking kidding me? I love Ivy League snobs. They are irreverently lazy, dismissive, judgmental, highly articulate, oh did I mention-- snobbish? Who doesn't like a latte drinking softie with a hyper liberal disposition, who recite poem at the flip of a fingers, rolls eyes, calls you dumb if you cannot at least spew history, philosophy and literature at the command of your submitting audience. Who wants a dull, idiot with practical head, who can change the toilet paper rolls. No, give me a highly eloquent fop who cant put gasoline on his car, and depends on a chauffer, and cannot wait to outshine in the dinner table! :dj:
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Basra- wrote:
LiquidHYDROGEN wrote:Elite universities are over-rated. It only produces snobs. I would take a highly skilled and qualified person from a technical college any day over hordes Oxford/Harvard graduates with PHDs in Philosophy and Chinese studies.

No, I beg to disagree. I will take the ivy league Snobs over hard working technical college graduate! R u freaking kidding me? I love Ivy League snobs. They are irreverently lazy, dismissive, judgmental, highly articulate, oh did I mention-- snobbish? Who doesn't like a latte drinking softie with a hyper liberal disposition, who recite poem at the flip of a fingers, rolls eyes, calls you dumb if you cannot at least spew history, philosophy and literature at the command of your submitting audience. Who wants a dull, idiot with practical head, who can change the toilet paper rolls. No, give me a highly eloquent fop who cant put gasoline on his car, and depends on a chauffer, and cannot wait to outshine in the dinner table! :dj:
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Yep, he is the only educated Somali in the world. Everyone else lives in caves.
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Lol@ only Somali. There were Somalis attending Universities since the 1930s.

That said, I'm a fan of Rageh Omaar. He's well loved by the British Somali community. I've read his books about growing up in Britain. You Canadians have Knaan who raps as your inspiration, we have an Oxford graduate 8)

Baasto, he left the BBC and use to call it 'the white mans club'.
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Marques wrote:Lol@ only Somali. There were Somalis attending Universities since the 1930s.

That said, I'm a fan of Rageh Omaar. He's well loved by the British Somali community. I've read his books about growing up in Britain. You Canadians have Knaan who raps as your inspiration, we have an Oxford graduate 8)

Baasto, he left the BBC and use to call it 'the white mans club'.
You know he is actually a worthy role model for young Somalis, K'naan ? not so much. :lol:
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Marques wrote:Lol@ only Somali. There were Somalis attending Universities since the 1930s.

That said, I'm a fan of Rageh Omaar. He's well loved by the British Somali community. I've read his books about growing up in Britain. You Canadians have Knaan who raps as your inspiration, we have an Oxford graduate 8)

Baasto, he left the BBC and use to call it 'the white mans club'.
Its a white mans world.
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Hodan94 wrote:ivy league, russle group uni's are prestigious academically and most are research uni's too. but many technical universities that teach health care like radiography are not done by these schools. so you cannot assume that because a person went to a technical uni to study radiography or midwifery and someone who went to a prestigious uni to study English and history to be the same or that the person who studied English at the prestigious school has more credentials than the other.... every uni's have the speciality.

but at the end of the day what separates people from getting them top jobs is work experience.
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I WANNA SEE Adali and warrabe have a conversation. :)
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Basra- wrote:I WANNA SEE Adali and warrabe have a conversation. :)
Why
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waraabe251 wrote:
Basra- wrote:I WANNA SEE Adali and warrabe have a conversation. :)
Why

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