Dislike of half Somali people

[SomaliAmir]

so i was prowsing the internet and i come across this topix forum asking whether or not ethnic Somalis dislike mixed or half somali people.

http://www.topix.com/forum/world/somali ... VJDRPFN65M

the overwhelming majority of people said that its your dad that impart your ethnicity to you. but how can you be somali without a somali mother. now hear be out, Somali father give their children their name and their lineage which define who you are within the hierarch of the somali clans system and somali society, but while a father teaches you how to be a man, how never to allow another human being to degrade you worth and teaches you about discipline. is it the mother who teaches you, you history/culture/language, keeps you attached to you people, a mother imprint in you a large chunk of you personality, you values, your mannerism, you sense of ethnics basic everything you are.

basic i asking can you be somali without a somali mother and this is mostly through observations most of the somali women when they marry out, their children go to dugsi, they're alway involved with the extended familiar and most of them are loyal to their Somali side as appose to when Somali men marry ajenabis. their children tend predominately to be more distant and i don't know if its because somali people make them feel like outsiders or is it because since the mother is foreign and has no desire to immerse herself in somali culture her children also lose interest and go mainstream.

i asking this since, in my junior year of college, i used to work at a retail store, and i saw a lot of our girl married to non Somali men. I have come across Korean men/Somali women, Black man/Somali women, Latino man/Somali women, 3 couple white man/Somali women.

and on a more personal level my cousin married a european man, 2 men related distantly within my family married a one muslim indian, one white and two girls i used to know in college married one sudanese and one half egyptian/half somali and my maternal uncle recently married a Yemen.

one more thing biologically, a man can have mulitiple children if any of you know about the time of our our grandfathers each man had a dozen plus. they can father multiple children with multiple women and throughout their lives. as for a women she has a limit window and the number of offspring she can have are limited, so to them chidren are abviously an investment and they put a lot of time and effort into them as oppose to men honestly we don't put that much effort into our children whether it due to culture or whether we are biologically wired since we can alway have more.

what i don't understant is how a child raised by a ajinibi never truely acclimitated to somali soceity is accept as opposed to children born to our daughter who are cultural somali but geneologically different. half/mixed children aren't detrimentally or a threat, they cann't harm or decrease our number they can only add to us and bring a differnt perspective so we shouldn't be overly hostile to them. what do you guys think.

[The Nomad]

Paternal descent is all that matters.

[Oxy-]

It always depends on the mother....

If she's somali, the kids become somali. If she's white however or non somali... they distance away from somalinimo.

Just shows how importent Hooyo is

[Hyperactive]

not every family like that.
there are some people can balance without taking any of the sides.

[SahanGalbeed]

I think you have a point .

[SomaliAmir]

Paternal descent is all that matters.

in somali it mattered since paternal descent was crucial to increasing the number of once clan and measuring vis-a ve the strenght of the other clan in the peninsula but what the point of having paternal descant with the culture/history to back it up and like i said culture is transmitted throught the mother.

somali men can marry non muslim women which a threat the women already doesb't know the culture but if she doesn't know the religion it does bode well for you children.

Somali women alway marry muslim men so at the very least the children will be raised in muslim house holds.

[SomaliAmir]

It always depends on the mother....

If she's somali, the kids become somali. If she's white however or non somali... they distance away from somalinimo.

Just shows how importent Hooyo is

with hooyo macan where would you be today.

honest question