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  1. Cinnamon Spice

    Why do Somalians get triggered when you call them..

    Soomaalia is the endonym and Soomaali is the ethnonym according to us. Somalian is correct in English.
  2. Cinnamon Spice

    Why do Somalians get triggered when you call them..

    I don't mean to put forward calling ourselves Somalian, I prefer Somali myself. My point was that I don't understand why we lash out/make a fuss whenever someone says Somalian instead of Somali when it isn't wrong or offensive. You'll see it a lot on social media, people overreacting and getting...
  3. Cinnamon Spice

    Why do Somalians get triggered when you call them..

    You make it sound as though they call us something entirely different to what we call ourselves; like it is the case with Egyptians, who call themselves "Misriyiin". If that were the case I would wholly agree with you in the need to correct them and assert our identity. But what we're discussing...
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    Why do Somalians get triggered when you call them..

    It's only the standard in English and according to how their language works. It's not like they singled us out or intended it as an insult; we can see that it's just a pattern in their language that has grammatical meaning. This is why it doesn't make sense for us to be offended/triggered by it...
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    Why do Somalians get triggered when you call them..

    I typed it in the search box and the first suggestion for both was pirates. :yacadiim: Some things we just can't run away from.
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    Why do Somalians get triggered when you call them..

    Do you mean when people say "Som-alien"? Lol, that's so childish being offended by it is ridiculous. You're better off ignoring underage trolls like that.
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    Why do Somalians get triggered when you call them..

    Not really, England/Pakistan doesn't end with an i or an a, but Somalia does. People whose countries end with those letters are more likely to have demonyms that end in -an, -ian or -ean. So calling someone from Somalia "Somalian" is not like calling someone from Pakistan "Pakistanian". :icon e...
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    Why do Somalians get triggered when you call them..

    ...Somalian? Whenever someone says Somalian you will always find someone pointing out the "mistake" and often angrily exclaiming "It's Somali not Somalian" :mad: My thread title probably triggered some.. but why? Why do we detest being called Somalian as if it's a slur or something? It's just...
  9. Cinnamon Spice

    Arab slaves think they're Arab!!!!

    And I hope we remain that way until the end of time :banderas:
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    Arab slaves think they're Arab!!!!

    The title is offensive. Somalis have never been enslaved by Arabs.
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    4 months old Somali infant in the uk die of neglect.

    She was probably psychologically & emotionally scarred. Being forced into a marriage that turned abusive, and then left alone at a young, tender age to look after very dependent minors, including an infant. Where was her family?
  12. Cinnamon Spice

    UPDATE: Somali girl RESPONDS to dailymail article

    The tabloids published my teenage tweets and implied I'm a fanatical Muslim – so let me set the record straight Full article - http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/fanatical-muslim-tweets-islam-zamzam-ibrahim-student-politics-this-is-the-truth-a7821591.html
  13. Cinnamon Spice

    Somali dudes. Serious question. No trolling

    The moment I read the OP my troll-radar went off. Not only does the scenario sound so fake, but you ask "would you consider her" to SSpot Faaraxs knowing full well what their reaction would be :childplease: And sure enough, in came the usual suspects, tripping over themselves in their...
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    Why it is a big mistake having daughters in the west

    If you care that much (which is good) then work hard to maintain the marriage and even before then take care in who you marry.
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    Why it is a big mistake having daughters in the west

    Most decent people would want that, but getting what you want doesn't make things 'fair'. You're complaining about one bias and running towards another. Pray you don't end up in that predicament in the first place instead of stressing over it. Don't enter into a marriage thinking about divorce.
  16. Cinnamon Spice

    Lets give Somalia to Turkey

    Another embarrassing thread that will show up in the search results. :snoop:
  17. Cinnamon Spice

    Why it is a big mistake having daughters in the west

    Yes, one of the conditions is as long as she doesn't remarry. Otherwise custody is rightfully hers. Some parts or all over the country? I don't see how this works considering how the Somali household is set up. Generally Somali men respect the role of the mother and her part in bringing up the...
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    Why it is a big mistake having daughters in the west

    Western? I was talking about Islamic law. Women have greater right to custody in Islam as well. Islamqa: In principle custody belongs to them :damnmusic:
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    Why it is a big mistake having daughters in the west

    Why do you often calaacal about squeeze in divorce and child custody laws into random threads you join? The scholarly consensus is that the mother has more right to custody.
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    Why it is a big mistake having daughters in the west

    It's also very scary. The pre-Islamic Arabs didn't bury their infant daughters for no reason. It was fear, shame and their cultural views on women that motivated their crime. It all starts from somewhere.
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