SahanGalbeed wrote:What is the common denominator here ? Identity . How do you expect people to behave a certain way just because they have the same ethnicity ?
What is somali culture ? it is a nomadic culture based on a strong decentralized grouping yet overwhelmingly unaffected by outsiders except for Islam .
First of all you are expected to behave a certain way due to a large degree of comformity, every non-western ethinc group has that including Somalis
Somali culture is communal, as oppose to "individualistic and this one difference creates entirely different paradigm and behaviors. (Somali culture would never produce Nihilism or Existentialist though for example) This communal root spills over to inform notions of "human rites" and ethics.
Secondly Somalis have been influenced by outsiders since ancient time. What are you talking about , we dont live in an island of isolation.
Islam is part of our culture and intrinsic part of our value formation.
When people grow up in a culture , they will consider that culture to be the norm . Now we have people whose parents are from a certain culture but grow up in a different culture and for reasons of their own reconstruct an idealized image of their parents culture in opposition to the one that surrounds them . That's NOT gonna work !
Yes this is going to work. You do this by teaching people their language and rejecting assimilation. Many communities have been successful at this, so this is very possible.
What we need is adhere to and promote universal principles such as kindness , politeness , generosity , understanding , compassion , moral strength ,noble conduct and ENFORCE those principles , that's how civilized people behave , which a good number of somalis are not, why deny it
ironically we have all of those virtues in our culture and among other such as hospitality, empathy, courtesy, and respect.
We can extend it forward, with concepts such as ''nabad'', ''xiishood'', ''wanaag'' ''Sharaf'' etc virtues like harmony & peace, honor & dignity.
We do have our own supergo of cultural ideal in which we enforce.
But on the lopside we Somalis are humans and as humans we are not above being petty. That doesnt mean we promote it or conceptualize it or are defined by these vices.
Hypocrisy , vengefulness , intellectual dishonesty , tribalism that's how the savage behaves , no matter how good he tries to perfect the language he speaks . We have those in abundance unfortunately. We should strive to make people BETTER not "more Somali" , whatever that means
This is why this site is a bonefied trash look at this guy negatively stereotyping his own kind. Look at all of the self deprecating remarks. Amazing!!
Where is this tribalism honestly. I have interacted with soo many somalis in my life, all i have gotten is love & mutual compassion from my bretherens and sisters. No ones asks me my clan or shows prejudice of it in that regard. The only place ive seen this kind of hate & behavior is on forums like this one spewed by the likes of you.
Most of what i have witnessed is the moral , community and family oriented nature of my people. I don't say this out of pure fanatical romanticism but out of my life experiences. Yes this is what defines Somali not that other rubbish you said.
We do need to make people more Somali. No one gets anywhere by rejecting who they are, nor can they be involved in evolving it either.
To function. A man must know himself to know the world. He must know where he stands. A deculturalized community can never strive to better themselves. A deculturalized community takes one way ticket to degeneracy and obsoletness.
Love you old Snet gang. 
