How come Somalis reject Sharax (Reer Xamar) and accept Niiko

[SomaliAmir]

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while surfing Youtube i come upon Edison Somali tradtion dance and you wouldn't believe the number of negative comment about this Reer Xamar dance. most reject the dance as too Arab or Yemeni not a true Somali dance. yet at the same time youtube is flooded with Niiko clips and the few that object to Niiko, object only from a moral standpoint for Good or ill Niiko is seen as being very Somali.

so my Question is why do we reject other African and yet assimiliate their culture and why are we more accepting to Arabs yet we reject their culture.

[Khalid Ali]

Niiko is a ritual bantu dance there is nothing somali about that . ta yementu ay ta talabsanayan is more of caadi dhaqan futtada lama ruxayo. Ma fahantay.

[Samatr]

Not all Somalis accept niiko as a Somali dance.

[Executive]

Niiko is not Somali, Its ceeb kulahaa acceptable.

[Khalid Ali]

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niiko is not somali dhaqan but its nice futto wareeg dance

[FAH1223]

Niiko is from Zanzibar. Sharax is from Yemen.

[military-mind]

waa yemeni dance iyo niiko waa xamari dance

[SomaliAmir]

Niiko is a ritual bantu dance there is nothing somali about that . ta yementu ay ta talabsanayan is more of caadi dhaqan futtada lama ruxayo. Ma fahantay.

Wa Fahmay, lakiinsa, in every Somali wedding whether the people are reer Djibouti or Reer Kenya you'll find Niiko. it just become apart of Somali culture especailly in the last 50 years.

what i don't get is that generally our people are intolerant toward somali Bantu so why assimiliate their dance and yet reject Reer Xamar culture which is in fact Quasi-Arab culture.

[Samatr]

^I have yet to see niiko at any of my family's weddings so far, its not wise to generalize.
and I have never heard of that other the dance.

[SomaliAmir]

^I have yet to see niiko at any of my family's weddings so far, its not wise to generalize.
and I have never heard of that other the dance.

you right i shouldn't generalize, but in the 90s Niiko was in every wedding, there is a new trend however most of the wedding i been to recently have been shiekh weddings, very religious people. no intermixing and absolutely on Niiko or western music. but in mixed wedding there is alway Niiko.

[FAH1223]

^I have yet to see niiko at any of my family's weddings so far, its not wise to generalize.
and I have never heard of that other the dance.

Northerners don't have it at their shindigs my mom said that's not in our vocabulary
I don't even see niiko at any of my pops family stuff and they're all mixed gatherings

[AbdiWahab252]

True niiko