Identity Crisis

[Complicated19]

Being a young British born Somali, I'm always having some sort of identity crisis
I remember the days I'd turn up to colg in an abaya and the next day I'd be wearing skinny jeans . My 'friend's' would be like WTF and I'd tell them I'm having an identity crisis

Everyones got expectations .... In particular parents! My parents gave up telling me how to dress cos I'd never listen ... I remember when my dad used to say ' Ma sidaas ayaad dabada ku baxisa' .... Even though he knew the answer.

My parents are your typical Somali parents...they ain't having no identity crisis ... They know who they are . Mum still calls back home (Sland) all the time and aabo listens to VOA and BBC Somali. Yep, pretty much typical.

Oh yeah , they don't like you having Somali friends and if they had a choice , they'd rather u had no friends at all.

Talking to guys is a no go.

I think parents need to give the youth a break .... They don't even understand themselves. Don't expect to understand them .

I wonder which country im more connected to . Should I be Somali before British or vice versa?

Can I be one without the other?

If that wasn't hard enough, we gotta be Muslim too ...

Your views please!

And ignore my lack of decent paragraphs ... I CBA

[LobsterUnit]

I am so somali,
but i spit half yardie,
n ma accent is cockney
like del boy n rodney

[LobsterUnit]

You know i once saw this girl wearing a niqab n she was wearing trousers. Either she is confused or she saw her ass on crimewatch.

[Complicated19]

Loool she's even more confused than me... I bet that was around Harlesden

[Complicated19]

And Only Fools and Horses

[SultanOrder]

[*Nobleman*]

Sometimes you gotta have multiple identities.

But I have noticed a new identity that best fits most of us. 'Muslim diaspora culture', I have more in common with an Arab or pakistani brit than say a Somali in Hargeisa.

[Complicated19]

Sometimes you gotta have multiple identities.

But I have noticed a new identity that best fits most of us. 'Muslim diaspora culture', I have more in common with an Arab or pakistani brit than say a Somali in Hargeisa.

I'm the same with the last bit

[Hyperactive]

Sometimes you gotta have multiple identities.

But I have noticed a new identity that best fits most of us. 'Muslim diaspora culture', I have more in common with an Arab or pakistani brit than say a Somali in Hargeisa.

i agree with you, i read a book by sheikh alqarathawi, the whole book was muslims who live none muslim majority countries and their needs. he explained well about the need their own scholars (who know their society better than say a scholar from saudi, egypt, pakistan) to produce scholars. he got example when sheikh shafi'i in aljazeera , then made some changes in his madhab when he saw egyptians and the new society that different than his own.

back to the topic; we all have multiple identities and may learned or may not to deal with it. when im with somali from miyi i sound as somali as them, when i got my uncle from yemen , they call wallah you're abu yamani.llol and in qatar, i heard some people say: warqat hun bo la ku sadaqeystay, markasu mawatin is mooday

as long not against your values and principle , it's just language and culture that you switching it back and forth. .