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How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationalities?
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 10:53 am
by BlackVelvet
Do you count Somali?
If you don't have a passport and since there is no system to have us registered can you be considered to have Somali nationality?
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 10:55 am
by SultanOrder
Somali nationality is worthless why mention it?
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:05 am
by SyntaX
No. If it's appropriate though, I do mention I'm ethnically Somali. "Where you from?" is much more annoying imo.
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:08 am
by Hyperactive
no!
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:10 am
by BlackVelvet
I am talking about on an officially capacity. Would you be lying by saying you don't have Somali nationality?
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:11 am
by Marques
Offtopic but i just love being Somali sometimes. To a lot of people our ethnicity is obscure, when a nice girl asks me about my nationality i tell her i have a Brazilian mom, an Egyptian grandmom and an East African Father
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:14 am
by BlackVelvet
Marques wrote:Offtopic but i just love being Somali sometimes. To a lot of people our ethnicity is obscure, when a nice girl asks me about my nationality i tell her i have a Brazilian mom, an Egyptian grandmom and an East African Father
If you had an equally obscure name you could totally get away with that even on job applications etc, tick other
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:17 am
by Marques
I tick other regardless. I always want to avoid being discriminated with the whole race thing. My backup is, even if i was asked about it i could always argue i believe Somalis are a unique race who don't fall under Black Africa
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:18 am
by AbdiJohnson
I only mention Somali if I am asked my ethnicity
I am,
Abdi "Or I tick the Black option" Johnson
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:20 am
by BlackVelvet
Apparently they don't look at that part of the application when making a recruitment decision
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:20 am
by Ismail87
I would love to have a Somali passport but I can't hold a dual nationality
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:21 am
by Marques
Its for statistical purposes but more times it's just unnecessary paperwork. In some places there are campaigns to get rid of it.
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:21 am
by Hyperactive
Jasmine6 wrote:I am talking about on an officially capacity. Would you be lying by saying you don't have Somali nationality?
no, im not lying. i never had somali nationality and my peeps refused ethiopian one, so im wondering where they would deport me!
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:46 am
by Murax
Being that I wasn't born in Somalia, and Somalia has no Gov I probably don't even have Somali nationality. Still though every American asks Me 'Where are You from originally' even though I have no accent. Next time I'll just say Wtf, I'm originally American, whats 'original' supposed to mean?
Re: How do you answer the Q:Do you have multiple nationaliti
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:58 am
by BlackVelvet
Murax wrote:Being that I wasn't born in Somalia, and Somalia has no Gov I probably don't even have Somali nationality. Still though every American asks Me 'Where are You from originally' even though I have no accent. Next time I'll just say Wtf, I'm originally American, whats 'original' supposed to mean?
After you tell them you should ask, what about you?
hyperactive wrote:Jasmine6 wrote:I am talking about on an officially capacity. Would you be lying by saying you don't have Somali nationality?
no, im not lying. i never had somali nationality and my peeps refused ethiopian one, so im wondering where they would deport me!