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A survey among African students at my school

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Last week I approached a group of African students, turned out to be 4 Ugandans and a Guinean, and I find out something interesting about their motives. Of the 5 of them, 4 were studying something related to policy, the last one was studying Communication - but even that can be used in a government setting. Unlike your typical qurba-loving Somali, these students, most of whom live/work full-time in the US, had no interest in the American dream or working a civilian desk job. One was studying Pollution Control, the other was studying Environmental Policy, another was studying Public Health Management, and the last was studying Urban Planning. Compare this to a group of 5 Somali students, you'd likely have 2 computer science majors, a finance student, and your token medical students - none with intentions for their native country for the foreseeable future.



Also, I realized that beesha Jareerweyn, be it African or African-American, is always apprehensive towards skinnies; they all seemed a bit shy or apprehensive towards me - smiles turned into frowns and some began murmuring their words towards me. :|
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Monk-of-Mogadishu wrote:Last week I approached a group of African students, turned out to be 4 Ugandans and a Guinean, and I find out something interesting about their motives. Of the 5 of them, 4 were studying something related to policy, the last one was studying Communication - but even that can be used in a government setting. Unlike your typical qurba-loving Somali, these students, most of whom live/work full-time in the US, had no interest in the American dream or working a civilian desk job. One was studying Pollution Control, the other was studying Environmental Policy, another was studying Public Health Management, and the last was studying Urban Planning. Compare this to a group of 5 Somali students, you'd likely have 2 computer science majors, a finance student, and your token medical students - none with intentions for their native country for the foreseeable future.



Also, I realized that beesha Jareerweyn, be it African or African-American, is always apprehensive towards skinnies; they all seemed a bit shy or apprehensive towards me - smiles turned into frowns and some began murmuring their words towards me. :|
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Re: A survey among African students at my school

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I know two doing urban and environmental planing, several guys doing politics, international development and international law and these are people i know. But I don't see what is wrong in doing business, it and health care.
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I'm planning to do an MPP/MPA starting next year or 2013 inshallah
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In the UK.. Almost all the students I know are studying subjects intended to better their motherland, the yanks must be different.. :|
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Re: A survey among African students at my school

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I think Somali parents leave their children with little room for choice when it comes to Uni courses, meaning that they dont encourage their children to study a variety and diverse number of courses. But only feed the standard courses on them such as Engineering, Medicine.
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